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Hi there are two kittens I'm considering purchasing. Both currently have blue eyes and I'm wondering about the chances of them growing up to keep their pretty blues. 

The first one is all black/dark. Mum is a Persian Chinchilla with beautiful turquoise eyes and a grey stripy coat. Dad is a chocolate point ragdoll with blue eyes. This ones eyes are a kind of dark blue. 

The second is also black. Mum is blue eyed, dad unknown. This ones eyes are very bright blue at the moment. 

I know black cats with blue eyes are very rare- but I have heard of people having them. Would love if one of these two kept their baby blues but am assuming it's unlikely. 

Any thoughts? 
 
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I will leave this to those who know more about breeding and genetics...I only know that in domestic (mixed) kitties, it is extremely rare for any cat that isn't pointed or white to have blue eyes as an adult--and I can usually tell the true blues from the kitten blues.  But I deal pretty much exclusively with domestic, mixed breed cats--the purebreds are few and far between here.
 
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myraboow said:
 
Hi there are two kittens I'm considering purchasing. Both currently have blue eyes and I'm wondering about the chances of them growing up to keep their pretty blues. 

The first one is all black/dark. Mum is a Persian Chinchilla with beautiful turquoise eyes and a grey stripy coat. Dad is a chocolate point ragdoll with blue eyes. This ones eyes are a kind of dark blue. 

The second is also black. Mum is blue eyed, dad unknown. This ones eyes are very bright blue at the moment. 

I know black cats with blue eyes are very rare- but I have heard of people having them. Would love if one of these two kept their baby blues but am assuming it's unlikely. 

Any thoughts? 
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in one,  the dad is blue eyed because he is a point, not because he has gene for blue eyes.

So IF the kittens have blue eyes for real, its sooner some variation form moms turqoise eyes...

In two - that is the hot possibility...   mom with blue eyes is a good possibility - unless she is a point, again the same as above...

Do you have a pic on her?

Re the kitten on pic.  As its apparently a quite young kitten as yet, too young to leave mom and littermates, my guess is its blue eyes are still the kitten blue. But we will apparently see quite soon if he changes color. he should get the color change soon enough, as he isnt very little either...
 
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Those look like baby blues, but how old is the kitten?  By the time a responsible breeder will let kittens go--8+ weeks--the eyes will have started if not finished turning to near an adult color.

I'm just not sure about these fancy cats, LOL.  I just feel like the baby blue eyes are kind of a different shade of blue than the blue eyes I see in adult domestic cats...and those are almost 100% pointed.  So I'm of little use in telling you if a black kitten will have blue eyes because honestly, I only ever saw one and he wasn't solid black, was more smoke and you could almost see points.
 
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A really good tip is a true blue eyed cat (or any animal) will show up red pupil glow when caught by the flash of a camera. It's to do with the lack of pigment at the back of the eye, so you get the glow of the blood vessels showing through. This is my Argo to show you what I mean. Hmmm it's not letting me upload the pic with the flash that shows the red glow, but here is him with out the flash.
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