When these twin cats, Iriss and Abyss, sit together as they often do and look into the camera lens, you won’t see a more beautiful vision of cat eyes anywhere in the world.
They are odd-eyed cats – more technically described as having heterochromatic eyes. White cats not uncommonly have an eye conditon called heterochromia iridum. It’s because the gene which makes the cat white can also affect the color of the iris and the cat’s hearing. You know that a lot of deaf cats are all-white. The gene removes color in the eyes as well as the hair.
Often the odd-eye colors are blue and yellow. In this example, I’d describe the eyes as gold (or rose gold) and aquamarine, which is extraordinarily special. The gold is amazing. It almost glints like the real thing.
Wow! Gorgeous cats.
Indeed they are. I have seen many thousands of pictures of cats. These two are in the top bracket of the most beautiful that I’ve seen.
It would be interesting to know if these two beauties are deaf in the ear on the same side as their blue eyes. That is often the case. And thank you for the new (to me) vocabulary tern: heterochromia iridum
Years ago, I was blessed with a beautiful white cat with soulful blue eyes. As I wrote on my website, Arthur was a rarity, and not deaf at all. She could hear a mouse rustle in the grass 100 yards away. She lived to be 18, but unfortunately, as she had been an indoor-outdoor cat (as was common practice back then), she developed sarcoma on her nose and ears, and didn’t last long.