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Cat Forum / Cat Anecdotes / March 2006I've asked before, but...
...do grey cats go grey? or white? Persia is already a grey cat. She has grey-blue fur, like a Russian Blue. (She even has the subtle black stripes on her tail and she has gorgeous green eyes.) But sometimes when she decides to meatloaf on me when I'm reclined and reading, when she looks at me her muzzle looks like it's turning silver. But then a minute later, when she turns her head, it doesn't look like that. And sometimes the backs of her ears look more silver than grey, but then if I rub the fur there it goes back to grey. Do grey cats go "grey" as they age? Or is this a trick of the light? Jill > ...do grey cats go grey? or white? > [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > > Jill Smokey is the same. She'll be 14 (!!!!) this year, and even when she was young (we got her from a friend who was moving, and couldn't (or wouldn't) keep her - and she was about a year old, and not yet spayed!!!), sometimes she looks charcoal colored, sometimes silver, sometimes pewter. sometimes her whiskers look black, sometimes white. It's the way the light reflects off her fur & whiskers! Tricky li'l buggars, aren't they? >> ...do grey cats go grey? or white? >> [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > white. It's the way the light reflects off her fur & whiskers! > Tricky li'l buggars, aren't they? Thank Bast I don't have to think about buying Loreal fur-colour! LOL And Persia sends hugs to Weeble... she's been snuggling up and pretending I'm her boyfriend :) We all know Weebs is her boyfriend. Jill >>> ...do grey cats go grey? or white? >>> [quoted text clipped - 23 lines] > > Jill Weebles sends purrs, nose kissies and huggles back to His Precious Persia, and wants to know if Persia ever got the Valentine card he sent via email (or if it got lost in cyberspace). Or is this a trick of the light? Trick of the light I think reflecting off their fur. Redunzel and Sarrasine are black under most lights but sunlight or bright electric light turns them chocolate brown and when you look closely they're actually tabbies with black and very dark brown markings. Then they move off from the light and if they move slowly enough you can actually see them turning back into black cats. Their eye colours also change with the light Lesley Slave of the Fabulous Furballs > Or is this a trick of the light? >> [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > > Slave of the Fabulous Furballs Persia's eyes change from deep green to gold to green with gold around the irises. I think it took me 3 months before I figured out she really has green eyes! Jill I think it's possible. Kitty Schottland, a very dark tortie, is sixteen and a few of her black whiskers and her muzzle are starting to turn gray. Even Capt. Midnight (RB), a black cat, got more and more white fur, and his black whiskers turning white, as he aged. Meowmie Debby > ...do grey cats go grey? or white? > [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > silver than grey, but then if I rub the fur there it goes back to grey. Do > grey cats go "grey" as they age? Or is this a trick of the light? It's a trick of the light. Miranda (15 months old) is the same. her fur goes from almost white to slate grey, all depending on the light. Nikki got white hairs as she got older, but then she was black and white to begin with. Frank's black parts went brown. So confusing.  SignatureMarina, Miranda and Caliban. In loving memory of Frank and Nikki. marina (dot) kurten (at) iki (dot) fi Stories and pics at http://koti.welho.com/mkurten/ Pics at http://uk.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/frankiennikki/ and http://community.webshots.com/user/frankiennikki > ...do grey cats go grey? or white? > [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > > Jill Princess (RB 16) was a traditional Siamese. She had very dark points and her body fur got very dark too as she got older. In the few months before she died, he body fur became increasingly lighter. By the time her final days arrived, he body fur was almost white. I still miss that beautiful girl-cat. MLB > ...do grey cats go grey? or white? Jill - My grey kitties, Bonnie and Cindy, are Russian Blue "wannabes" with beautiful blue grey coats. They are also almost 17 years old! I've watched my beautiful grey kitties slowly going "grey" over the past couple of years. I really see it around their muzzles; they're lighter and greyer than the rest of their lovely blue grey coats. It's sad to see them getting old but they're still beautiful cats. McZ19, slave to Bonnie and Cindy Nico's not aging yet, not for a long time, but he seems to have some parts of his body where his grey fur looks silvery in certain lighting conditions. And when I look at his fur up close, he has a mix of different colour hairs making up that shade of grey - black ones, grey ones, silvery ones etc. Even his whiskers are white, grey and black. Some hairs are one colour all the way, others are a different colour at the tip and another near the skin, but still when looking at him he looks just grey (except for the white paws on the left and the white markings on the throat, "armpits" and belly). SignatureChristine in Vantaa, Finland christal63 (at) gmail (dot) com photos: http://photos.yahoo.com/christal63 photos: http://community.webshots.com/user/chkr63 > ...do grey cats go grey? or white? > [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > > Jill My Arthur's whiskers seem to be going white as he gets older. When he was young his all whiskers were all black, like the rest of his coat, except for a single white one on the left side. Now he's 15 and his whiskers are almost all white. > ...do grey cats go grey? or white? > [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > > Jill I don't know and suspect I never will because Vino is so light coloured. But I have noticed that as he gets older, he gets more and more dark spots on his lovely pink lips :-( SignatureBritta Purring is an automatic safety valve device for dealing with happiness overflow. Check out pictures of Vino at: http://photos.yahoo.com/badwilson click on the Vino album >> ...do grey cats go grey? or white? >> [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] >But I have noticed that as he gets older, he gets more and more dark >spots on his lovely pink lips :-( On at least some cats, such as my Cinders, there seems to be both short white under-fur and longer dark outer-fur. If the fur at a given point is spread apart, so that I am seeing down almost to her skin, the fur looks much lighter-colored than it does if it is smoothed down. SignatureJohn F. Eldredge -- john@jfeldredge.com PGP key available from http://pgp.mit.edu "Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all." -- Hypatia of Alexandria > ...do grey cats go grey? or white? > [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > silver than grey, but then if I rub the fur there it goes back to grey. Do > grey cats go "grey" as they age? Or is this a trick of the light? Melisande looks silver from certain angles, too - especially about the muzzle. I think it's just the shade of grey she is (and apparently Persia is, too). My new little cat, Cendrillon, is black and white, but some black areas have just a few white hairs growing out among the black. I think it's simply the way her fur grows. (She's much too young to be "going grey"!)
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