ESCONDIDO - He looks like your standard alley cat, nothing to write home about. But officials at the Escondido Humane Society say he is a rare specimen, “a once-in-a-lifetime” cat like none they have ever seen before. They call him Phinny, for phenomenon. It wasn't until they were ready to spay Phinny that they found out he needed neutering instead. And that's how he got his name. Phinny, you see, is a male tortoiseshell, a tricolor cat. He's not quite the missing link in the cat world, but is undoubtedly a rare quirk of nature, for reasons of genetics. “In...