What affects us affects cats
I can think of four ways that domestic cat fur changes with age, two of which are caused indirectly. I will start with one example. There is an overlap between cats and humans on how ageing affects hair. Matting in older cats due to neglected self-grooming (autogrooming) We know that old cats self-groom less …
Dilution refers to making a colour lighter as if mixing it with white. When black is made lighter is becomes a pale or slate grey. Sarah Hartwell refers to it as ‘blue dilution’. Grey is not blue but there is a slight bluish tinge to the grey cat coat. The cat fancy prefers to …
The truth is that the muzzle of a cat does sometimes turn gray in old age (I have seen it first hand) and a study concluded that dog muzzles turn gray due to stress and anxiety (and I presume in old age although there is an overlap here). The point is that the question …
We know that cats and dogs can go grey to varying amounts in old age. It seems that dogs are more likely to go grey than cats. We don’t know why, if this is indeed what is happening. However, recent research also indicates that stress can also make dogs and cats go grey. Well, …
