Black Cat turning White???

Spooky Bear is mostly black with some white on his chin, chest and paws. He's a little over a year old. I've noticed lately that he's got random white hairs popping up in places that used to be solid black. I don't think it's a cause for concern, it's just him growing up I guess!

I think it's adorable! Benson has a few white furs on his right side...I think they are multipling too.

Aw, he looks so much like my Sam. He is solid black, but has white hair underneath his black hair. It is really strange, and the vet said it was rare, but she had seen it before. It makes him look really neat, though!

Forrest has a large scar/bald patch on his back leg from some unknown injury when he was a feral. Many of the hairs around this scar are now coming in white. He also has smaller scars on his front leg, chin and face that have little white hairs around them also. Perhaps some of the hair folicles lose their pigment due to scarring.

He also has a few more white hairs coming in here and there in his fur. He's 7 months old now and I think he will get many more white hairs when he is older.

I once knew a person who had a half gray eyebrow. She said that when she was little, she had had a laceration that required stitches there and the reason part of her eyebrow was gray was that the hair follicle was damaged after the incident. Sounds similar to your situation.

I have a pure black female who is getting a few more white hairs now than before, but as it is a sprinkling of hairs, she is still pure black, to be black and white, they have to have patches of white fur.

A few white hairs on a black cat would not make him a black & white cat. In show terms it would be a "locket". Some breeds it would be a fault, some not.

Injury or a scar would create white hairs. Since hes' mixed it really doesn't matter. He may get the black hairs back next time he sheds his coat.

Whitey is a black cat, but last summer we had his shaved, so when his fur grew back, it was gray/white at the tips.

His undercoat is the gray/white color...perhaps that's just some of that leaking through from his maybe licking that paw too much?

He is a pure black, a few white hairs doesn't make him black and white.