White Persian, GREEN eyes?!

maymay57 · Nov 26, 2006

Hiya,
I recently bought a white girl as part of my Persian breeding plan. She's registered as orange-eyed, and carries the odd-eye gene apparently. But her eyes are very much a yellow-green colour (probably more green than yellow even!). I thought pure-bred Persians only come with orange, blue or odd eyes....so then is she not a full Persian?? Or has she just got bad eye colour? If anyone can shed some light, that would be fab...am MOST confused!!

goldenkitty45 · Nov 26, 2006

Just has bad eye color. I've seen many "gold" eyed cats that had more of a gold-green shade. Depends on the mood/light - sometimes they look more gold, sometimes green.

If she's in your breeding program you might want to reconsider and spay her and get one with better eye color for breeding/showing.

BTW she cannot "carry" the odd-eye gene. You get odd-eyes from one parent being blue eyed, one parent being gold eye and the kitten picks up one color from each parent.

maymay57 · Nov 26, 2006

Well aside from her the non-specific colour, she has STUNNING eyes - big, very striking, great shape. ABSOLUTELY BEAUTIFUL. So I was looking to breed that feature in to my lines more than her colour. Thanks for your advice

goldenkitty45 · Nov 26, 2006

But eyes are not the main points on a persian - you have head/body type that's way more important. But clear deep eye color is more desirable. So unless she has outstanding type and not so good of eye color, I would not be using her in a breeding program.

maymay57 · Nov 26, 2006

Yes she has good head and body type. So I will be keeping her on the plan until I see the kittens she produces at least. I can work on eye colour, that's not a problem.

goldenkitty45 · Nov 26, 2006

Ok, look to breed her to a male that has type AND outstanding eye color

maymay57 · Nov 26, 2006

yeah, this is the plan me thinks.

merrytreecats · Dec 7, 2006

Originally Posted by GoldenKitty45

Just has bad eye color. I've seen many "gold" eyed cats that had more of a gold-green shade. Depends on the mood/light - sometimes they look more gold, sometimes green.

If she's in your breeding program you might want to reconsider and spay her and get one with better eye color for breeding/showing.

BTW she cannot "carry" the odd-eye gene. You get odd-eyes from one parent being blue eyed, one parent being gold eye and the kitten picks up one color from each parent.

Actually you can get a blue-eyed/odd-eyed white out of two copper-eyed parents. Not super common but possible...also copper eyed or odd-eyed white out of two blue-eyed parents. The gene that causes white colouring also causes blue eyes if, in utero, the effect spreads to the eye area. If it reaches the inner ears, the cat will be deaf; and yes, there are copper-eyed whites that are deaf.

goldenkitty45 · Dec 7, 2006

Merry, show me where (in text) that you can get an odd-eye cat out of two copper-eyed whites? I know you can have deaf cats in copper-eyed. My white rex was gold eye and turned out deaf - not from mom (who was white) but from her bicolor father!

Cats do not carry hidden/recessive eye color! Whatever color their eyes are, that's what they are. Can you show me otherwise?

merrytreecats · Dec 7, 2006

http://home.earthlink.net/~featherland/off/white.html

A good, in depth explanation of how the genes that control white and white spotting {and blue eyes} work. This isn't related to blue-eyed white cats that are such because their white is masking the pointed gene, however. {I've had a blue-eyed white through just that situation}.

If I find anything else written on the subject, I'll post it up.

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