Dispelling some Myths..

Dispelling some Myths..

Wiki have a very good page on human eye colour. Please visit link below.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_color

On my site I am hoping to
disspell and help people to understand the Myths and Legends that
surround some of our most loved pet cats ..My choices are Both the
Blue-eyed Cats, Curly Coated Cats and Bobtailled Breeds.



A lot of Bias and ignorance surround the blue eyed cats Mainly that of deafness and blindness.
The blue -eyed gene does not cause blindness in cats.
Blue eyed white cats whether moggie or pedigree can occassionally be born deaf.
The majority are not.
Cats that are colourpointed do not share the same gene as blue eyed whites.
Colourpointed cats are not born genetically deaf at all.



Eye colours in cats..


All kittens are born with blue eyes although the eye colour of the
adult will not start to show until around 6-8 weeks when their will be
obvious colour change evident to your naked eye...Earlier than this you will need a good camera to spot significant changes.


Kittens with a very deep air force blue or purple looking blue at 4 weeks will possibly have a good green eye as an adult.

A pale blue Iris which shows red eye in photography will remain
blue and could possibly deepen the blue as an adult.

A blue that will be a rich copper colour as an adult usually shows browny speckles or Air force blue at 4 weeks



Eye colours



Greens


oo Emerald

oo Turquoise

oo Olive not desirable


Blues

oo Sapphire

oo Deep Aqua


oo Sky Blue

oo Very Pale blue not desirable



Coppers

oo Coppers Should be the colour of the one Pence piece a good reddish brown

oo Amber Orange yellow

oo Pale Yellow..Not desirable.





The colours that are not desirable only affect whether the cat is of a show quality it does not affect the sight of the cat and all eye colours including those with the ring surrounding the pupil still make
excellent pets..


During their progression cats can get a ring of different colour surround the pupil this can merge into the complete eye colour by the time they are adult. Usually between 2-3 years of age.
However in solid breeding what is not desirable, and can sometimes happen when a solid/self is mated to a colourpoint (i'e Siamese or Himalayan Persian), is that a green ring can occur between the pupil and the outer yellow.
Please note when breeding always use the best and deepest of the correct eye colour to try to alleviate this..



Lastly very often cats can be born with a combination...

Odd eyes

Blue /copper

Blue/green

Blue/yellow


Turquoise/Yellow

Other combinations will be possible. Even an individual eye can have one half blue the other half turquoise. The colours will all vary in intensity too.