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Question Regarding Orange Tabby's
Granted, Buffy is only my second cat. She's my first orange tabby.
She's about 7 years old (best guess). Question: do orange tabby's get darker as they get older? I ask this because her fur seems to be much darker than it was last year when I adopted her. Looking at old pictures it seems she was ligher. Now her fur looks like copper. Absolutely gorgeous but also darker. Is this something you've ever encountered? Do orange cats get darker with age? Buffy's fur is very shiny. It's also tipped with white which makes her appear to sparkle in the sunlight. Jill |
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Question Regarding Orange Tabby's
Question: do orange tabby's get darker as they get older?
I ask this because her fur seems to be much darker than it was last year when I adopted her. Looking at old pictures it seems she was ligher. Now her fur looks like copper. Absolutely gorgeous but also darker. Is this something you've ever encountered? Do orange cats get darker with age? Buffy's fur is very shiny. It's also tipped with white which makes her appear to sparkle in the sunlight. Could she have been biotin-deficient when she arrived? That happens with a diet high in egg (which is in some types of catfood, and not necessarily just the cheap ones). Biotin deficiency causes reversible greying in both cats and people. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- e m a i l : j a c k @ c a m p i n . m e . u k Jack Campin, 11 Third Street, Newtongrange, Midlothian EH22 4PU, Scotland mobile 07800 739 557 http://www.campin.me.uk Twitter: JackCampin |
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Question Regarding Orange Tabby's
On 6/28/2016 9:04 PM, Jack Campin wrote:
Question: do orange tabby's get darker as they get older? I ask this because her fur seems to be much darker than it was last year when I adopted her. Looking at old pictures it seems she was ligher. Now her fur looks like copper. Absolutely gorgeous but also darker. Is this something you've ever encountered? Do orange cats get darker with age? Buffy's fur is very shiny. It's also tipped with white which makes her appear to sparkle in the sunlight. Could she have been biotin-deficient when she arrived? That happens with a diet high in egg (which is in some types of catfood, and not necessarily just the cheap ones). Biotin deficiency causes reversible greying in both cats and people. I have no idea what her diet was before I adopted her. The woman who took care of her after her owner died fed her canned Friskies and some sort of dry kibble that was in a pet food bin in the pantry. Her orange fur is darker. I believe the white tips are just natural to her. Jill |
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Question Regarding Orange Tabby's
On Tuesday, June 28, 2016 at 5:53:02 AM UTC-4, Jill McQuown wrote:
Granted, Buffy is only my second cat. She's my first orange tabby. She's about 7 years old (best guess). Question: do orange tabby's get darker as they get older? I ask this because her fur seems to be much darker than it was last year when I adopted her. Looking at old pictures it seems she was ligher. Now her fur looks like copper. Absolutely gorgeous but also darker. Is this something you've ever encountered? Do orange cats get darker with age? Buffy's fur is very shiny. It's also tipped with white which makes her appear to sparkle in the sunlight. Jill Rusty was an orange tabby. I had him for 15 years. Didn't notice him getting darker. Did notice he got brown patches around his mouth. The vet said that is common with orange tabby. Guess it is similar to redheads getting more freckles. Winnie |
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Question Regarding Orange Tabby's
On Mon, 15 Aug 2016 03:06:08 -0700 (PDT), Rusty
wrote: On Tuesday, June 28, 2016 at 5:53:02 AM UTC-4, Jill McQuown wrote: Granted, Buffy is only my second cat. She's my first orange tabby. She's about 7 years old (best guess). Question: do orange tabby's get darker as they get older? I ask this because her fur seems to be much darker than it was last year when I adopted her. Looking at old pictures it seems she was ligher. Now her fur looks like copper. Absolutely gorgeous but also darker. Is this something you've ever encountered? Do orange cats get darker with age? Buffy's fur is very shiny. It's also tipped with white which makes her appear to sparkle in the sunlight. Jill Rusty was an orange tabby. I had him for 15 years. Didn't notice him getting darker. Did notice he got brown patches around his mouth. The vet said that is common with orange tabby. Guess it is similar to redheads getting more freckles. Winnie I wonder if it has anything to do with diet or some other environmental issue. I know that Flamingos get their red color from the food that they eat, so maybe there's a relationship. I'm not suggesting that you feed her a Flamingo. |
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Question Regarding Orange Tabby's
dgk wrote:
On Mon, 15 Aug 2016 03:06:08 -0700 (PDT), Rusty wrote: On Tuesday, June 28, 2016 at 5:53:02 AM UTC-4, Jill McQuown wrote: Granted, Buffy is only my second cat. She's my first orange tabby. She's about 7 years old (best guess). Question: do orange tabby's get darker as they get older? I ask this because her fur seems to be much darker than it was last year when I adopted her. Looking at old pictures it seems she was ligher. Now her fur looks like copper. Absolutely gorgeous but also darker. Is this something you've ever encountered? Do orange cats get darker with age? Buffy's fur is very shiny. It's also tipped with white which makes her appear to sparkle in the sunlight. Jill Rusty was an orange tabby. I had him for 15 years. Didn't notice him getting darker. Did notice he got brown patches around his mouth. The vet said that is common with orange tabby. Guess it is similar to redheads getting more freckles. Winnie I wonder if it has anything to do with diet or some other environmental issue. I know that Flamingos get their red color from the food that they eat, so maybe there's a relationship. I'm not suggesting that you feed her a Flamingo. Haha! Or feed her whatever flamingos eat - I thought it was some kind of sea food (shrimp?). And we know how cats feel about shrimpies. -- Joyce Teach a child to be polite and courteous in the home and, when he grows up, he'll never be able to merge his car onto a freeway. |
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