About three years ago, I was paging through one of those cat magazines and read an article about a species of domesticated cat that was very revered in it’s native homeland: Indonesia, or somewhere there abouts, I can’t really remember.
It was described as having: short, white fur, with “diamond bright eyes.” Here’s the unusual thing: this particular species has two different colored eyes. One eye was the color of golden topaz, the other the color of blue topaz. This is not an odd quirk that pops up every now and then, this dual-eyes color is as natural to them as having short, white fur.
Does anyone have any idea what the name of this variety of cat may be?
2006-09-25 08:55:11 · 6 answers · asked by pinduck85 4 in Pets ➔ Cats
The breed I’m looking to is not very well known in the US. In fact, they authors of the article had to go through a lot of real-life cloak and dagger stuff just to smuggle out a breeding pair of two. The local people were very tight-lipped about these cats, I think at one time they may even have been worshipped, or something along those lines. (I wish I could remember more. Darn the luck that left me without enough $$ to but that magazine when I saw it.)
2006-09-25 09:51:52 · update #1
I just remembered one more thing: The dual-colored eyes apparently are not a genetic fluke. Every kitten born to pure-bred parents has the yellow-blue eye combination. It's some kind of a genetic quirk specific to this particular breed.
2006-09-25 10:35:16 · update #2
The turkish angora
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angora_cat
2006-09-25 08:57:40 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I have researched this on several different cat education and cat fanciers sites and they all say that their is no such breed. That it is commonly just a domestic shorthair that has two different color eyes. Although there are some breeds that are more prone to this than others, no breed has different colored eyes as a breed characteristic.
So, if there is one I couldn't find anything on it...sorry.
2006-09-25 09:19:48 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is a genetic aberration and is found in a lot of white cats I have seen. As a matter of fact I am hoping to take such a cat into my home soon. He has been abandoned at a cat boarding facility for six months and is 15 yrs. old.
2006-09-25 09:11:28 · answer #3 · answered by old cat lady 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'll do some checking...
I don't think the eye color thing has to do with its breed. It's just a genetic mutation.
2006-09-25 08:57:03 · answer #4 · answered by ndtaya 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i'm not entirely sure, but i think this is who your looking for!
http://www.cfainc.org/breeds/profiles/balinese.html
2006-09-25 09:46:45 · answer #5 · answered by tini 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
http://www.cfainc.org/breeds.html
2006-09-25 09:12:18 · answer #6 · answered by macleod709 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋