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Old February 14th 10, 01:37 PM posted to rec.pets.cats.anecdotes
---MIKE---
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Default A rare black whisker

I find quite a few shed whiskers (and I save them). Tiger's whiskers
are usually white with a black root. Today I found a completely black
whisker. That's the first one I have seen.


---MIKE---
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(44° 15' N - Elevation 1580')


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Old February 14th 10, 03:30 PM posted to rec.pets.cats.anecdotes
Ted Davis[_3_]
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On Sun, 14 Feb 2010 07:37:30 -0500, ---MIKE--- wrote:

I find quite a few shed whiskers (and I save them). Tiger's whiskers are
usually white with a black root. Today I found a completely black
whisker. That's the first one I have seen.


I have been wondering about that myself. I have three red tabbies from the
same litter - one has about one third black whiskers, one has almost none,
and the third has a few. It corrolates with the degree of curling in their
tails: most curl, most black whiskers; least curl, fewest black whiskers.

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Old February 15th 10, 06:48 AM posted to rec.pets.cats.anecdotes
Yowie
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Default A rare black whisker

In news Ted Davis typed:
On Sun, 14 Feb 2010 07:37:30 -0500, ---MIKE--- wrote:

I find quite a few shed whiskers (and I save them). Tiger's
whiskers are usually white with a black root. Today I found a
completely black whisker. That's the first one I have seen.


I have been wondering about that myself. I have three red tabbies
from the same litter - one has about one third black whiskers, one
has almost none, and the third has a few. It corrolates with the
degree of curling in their tails: most curl, most black whiskers;
least curl, fewest black whiskers.


It would be genetic, but I thought more related to the agouti gene -
Shmogg's whiskers were always white (or very light grey) with a dark grey /
black root. Now all the ones I find are white, which is probably for the
best. For a while there, I'd occasionally find an agouti hair in amongst the
smotherings of all-white hair, and once I realised who it must have belonged
to, I turned into a blubbering wreck. Eventually Joel would just "you've
found another hair, haven't you?".

It is of course less common now, and whilst I know finding Shmogg's hair
around even after 2.5 years may reflect badly on my housekeeping, I still
think of them is wonderful surprises to be treasured, not swept away.

Yowie


 




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