4 ways that cat fur changes with age
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...
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‘Blue’ is the dilution of a black cat coat
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...
Why Don’t Cats Turn Gray with Age, But Dogs Do?
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...
Stress can make pets go grey
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...
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