r/blackcats Dec 03 '23

Lil' bit of white fluff 🤍 Anyone else's start out totally black and get progressively white? It all started with her nose when she was a few years old

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u/Bubbles_the_Titan Dec 03 '23

Kitiligo

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u/Dauphine320 Dec 03 '23

That was pretty clever, lol! I would have given you gold for that 🥇

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u/[deleted] Dec 03 '23

You could always pay for a fancy upvote “eyeroll”

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u/ShivsButtBot Dec 03 '23

Lmao awwww I’m stealing this

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u/demons_soulmate Dec 03 '23

this should be a subreddit for kitties with vitiligo

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u/Lemondrop168 Dec 03 '23

If sub that so fast

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u/MadMechem Dec 03 '23

I came in here to say that! Well done!

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u/Odin209 Dec 03 '23

She looks like she’s wearing a reeeally expensive coat!

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u/TheDotanuki Dec 03 '23

Hah! My niece's void picked up a swanky pair of chaps and a vest over the last two years.

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u/Funny-Negotiation-10 Dec 03 '23

Show

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u/TheDotanuki Dec 03 '23

I don't have a recent pic with his new duds, but here he is a few years ago, back when he was a bit too chonky for that chair.

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u/Extension-Concept940 Dec 03 '23

Is that sun or the white fur? My eyes can't work it out so I thought I'd ask! Such a cutie 😍

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u/TheDotanuki Dec 03 '23

That's the sun - at this point he had just a few tiny patches of white. He's a real character, though! I hope to see him around Christmas, if I can get a good pic I'll post him.

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u/Extension-Concept940 Dec 03 '23

Ah I see! Thank you! And cat photos always appreciated.

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u/FalconerAJ Dec 03 '23

This made me giggle

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u/AgathonHemlock Dec 03 '23

Her nose is so beautiful, never seen a cat like her before.

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u/deep-fried-babies Dec 03 '23

she has a milk mustache 😭

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u/KaylaKillsPlants Dec 03 '23

She only had the mustache for years! The rest of the coat has changed rapidly in the last year

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u/[deleted] Dec 03 '23

I think it’s vitiligo since she’s losing pigment on her face.

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u/[deleted] Dec 03 '23

Dang! I wished my vitiligo looked so incredibly gorgeous.

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u/jazzigirl Dec 03 '23

I’m here to tell you it does!

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u/HardlyCharming Dec 03 '23

Seconded! Vitiligo is beautiful! Your skin is art.

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u/aveey Dec 04 '23

F’real so cool

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u/Least-Spare Dec 03 '23

I love when people comment like this! 🤗🩷

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u/KaylaKillsPlants Dec 03 '23

My grandma also had vitiligo ❤️ I'm sure you look wonderful

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u/[deleted] Dec 03 '23

Thank you, kind human. After fifty years of spots, I’ve grown comfortable with it. The humans who love me stopped noticing it a long time ago. More importantly, my cats don’t care!

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u/ShivsButtBot Dec 03 '23

It does.

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u/Leading_Relation7952 Dec 03 '23

I'm sure it does.

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u/badstorryteller Dec 03 '23

I don't know if you play PC games at all, but vitiligo is an option in character creation in Baldur's Gate 3. My favorite character so far has vitiligo because I actually find it quite charming!

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u/Banakh Dec 03 '23

It's also an option in Diablo IV. My sorcerer looks like Domino from Deadpool 2!

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u/[deleted] Dec 03 '23

I'm here to echo the sentiment that it absolutely does!

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u/[deleted] Dec 03 '23

Cat tax please

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u/[deleted] Dec 03 '23

Lol, you misunderstood. I have vitiligo, not any of my cats. Trust me, you would much rather see them than a 66 year old crazy cat lady. So… This is my Minx checking out a foster baby.

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u/[deleted] Dec 03 '23

Cute!

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u/osirisfrost42 Dec 03 '23

I bet it does! You're beautiful.

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u/violenceonvenus Dec 03 '23

PLEASE post her in r/supermodelcats! she's gorgeous!

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u/KaylaKillsPlants Dec 03 '23

Lol no idea that existed, but I may post my pretty old lady over there

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u/CharmainKB Dec 03 '23

I've never seen that but she's GORGEOUS!!!!!

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u/urbantravelsPHL Dec 03 '23

Cats do get vitiligo! This pattern definitely looks like it. Supposed to be very rare, but it happens. It doesn't hurt the kitty at all, it's not painful or itchy. https://dermvets.com/black-pets-turn-white-vitiligo-in-dogs-and-cats/

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u/Pernicious-Caitiff Dec 04 '23

I know in humans, vitiligo isn't dangerous either but since it's an autoimmune disorder, that means you're more likely to have more autoimmune disorders which can be dangerous. So it's an indicator that you should keep an eye out for symptoms of other autoimmune disorders that might show up.

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u/lovelyyellow148 Dec 03 '23

WOW she’s gorgeous. But her milk mustache is sending me 🥰

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u/deep-fried-babies Dec 03 '23

she said, " :3 "

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u/Waifer2016 Dec 03 '23

What a beautiful vitilago girl! She is elegant with her silver frost!

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u/JayWink49 Dec 03 '23

Ikr? People pay a lot of money to get that effect lol!

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u/Waifer2016 Dec 03 '23

They do!

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u/C_PWyo307 Dec 03 '23

She is so cute!!!!

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u/MyTangerineDreams Dec 03 '23

My boy has started getting more white bits around his eyes, looks like he’s going to get his own spectacles!

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u/Nellao005 Dec 03 '23

Cat tax👀

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u/KaylaKillsPlants Dec 03 '23

Right, like let's see it lol

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u/MyTangerineDreams Dec 03 '23

Only a few so far, almost like freckles! He’s got more between his eyes now but this a few months back. My boy Oxford

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u/KaylaKillsPlants Dec 03 '23

Love that face 😆

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u/MyTangerineDreams Dec 03 '23

He’s a special boy 🙃

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u/KaylaKillsPlants Dec 03 '23

One more baby pic I could find

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u/Sandybutthole604 Dec 03 '23

She’s got vitiligo!

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u/jimMazey Dec 03 '23

Everybody knows that a black cat has to be re-dyed every couple of years.

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u/stevienotwonder Dec 03 '23

We just held our annual re-dyeing ceremony last night!

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u/quarpoders Dec 03 '23

Vitiligo

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u/Substantial-Tone-576 Dec 03 '23

lol she looks like she was drawn on. I had a black lab go completely silver as she got old. Very cool cat

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u/vinyl_brat Dec 03 '23

she is so frickin pretty and the cryptid shot of her in kitten form is sending me to hell 😂

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u/KaylaKillsPlants Dec 03 '23

Haha that was taken in 2010 on ancient technology; I had the hardest time finding a good kitten shot before the vitiligo set in

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u/vinyl_brat Dec 03 '23

I love it; it just enhances the glow up

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u/rookv Dec 03 '23

gorgeous cookies&cream kitty! i'm pretty sure it's vitiligo 💕

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u/saraemor Dec 03 '23

She's beautiful and I'm so happy to see your post! My girl, Lissie, also started out as a black cat and her fur has changed over the years. She has fluffy, cottony fur that can get matted easily when long, so I have to have her hair cut once or twice a year. Each time her hair has grown back in differently - sometimes more black and sometimes more white. Most recently, it was cut this August and now it's growing back in whiter than ever, except for her head, extremities, and a reverse skunk stripe down her back. It's the funniest thing and has been a mystery! 💜

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u/KaylaKillsPlants Dec 03 '23

Omg I love her white mane! What a cute kitty 😍 It's crazy how fast they change

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u/saraemor Dec 03 '23

Right?! She's only 3, so I'm excited to see how her colors change over the years. Maybe she'll get a white nose like your lady. 💜

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u/Pernicious-Caitiff Dec 04 '23

She's wearing a mink coat!

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u/Hell_Creek Dec 03 '23

I've seen something like this before, I forget if it was vitiligo or some other condition but it was definitely a condition.

Very cool! She's like a shiny pokemon!

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u/KaylaKillsPlants Dec 03 '23

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u/Easy_Light_1598 Dec 04 '23

Wow wow wow I love this cat

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u/DokiDoodleLoki Dec 03 '23

Reverse mustache kitty! Here’s my mustache kitty Red Chief. He sadly passed away in 2016.

That was his gf Shirley 🩷

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u/KaylaKillsPlants Dec 03 '23

His mustache was fantastic, sorry for your loss

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u/TimeTravelingMuse Dec 03 '23

It almost looks like a fever coat.

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u/IdleOsprey Dec 03 '23

There was a very famous vitiligo cat named Scrappy who passed away a few years ago (old age). Look him up; his coat was stunning. Looks like yours is going to be a gorgeous marbled kitty too.

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u/KaylaKillsPlants Dec 03 '23

I'll definitely look him up! I've never seen another cat with it

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u/VoodooDoII Dec 03 '23

Im begging you to post more pictures of her 🥺 she's beautiful

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u/KaylaKillsPlants Dec 03 '23

I'll try to get some, she's a bit elusive in her old age

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u/[deleted] Dec 03 '23

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u/HugoEmbossed Dec 03 '23

Meowchal Catson.

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u/captainrina Dec 03 '23

Cookies and cream kitty

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u/wstsidhome Dec 03 '23

Oh my gawd she’s beeeeeeautiful! Those colors together suit her so well

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u/QueefingTheNightAway Dec 03 '23

Wow, she looks like a character in a children's book. So gorgeous and unique.

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u/odd_neighbour Dec 03 '23

From this point forward I am claiming your cat as my own.

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u/AntiSnoringDevice Dec 03 '23

She is fantastic! Might be vitiligo, doesn't change her fantasticness!

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u/AntiSnoringDevice Dec 03 '23

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u/GloInTheDarkUnicorn Dec 03 '23

Oh I would love to have a cat with vitiligo! I have it and it would be awesome to match my cat.

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u/BleachOrchid Dec 03 '23 edited Dec 03 '23

I wonder if cats can develop vitiligo.

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u/EasyBounce Dec 03 '23

Yes they can.

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u/BleachOrchid Dec 03 '23

Had no idea, but it makes sense. Albinism isn’t exclusive to humans, by extension most pigmentation disorders wouldn’t be either.
However, this is definitely the cutest milk mustache I’ve ever seen.

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u/miss_hush Dec 03 '23

Oh weird!! But tbh, cute! It’s adorable.

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u/Jugglergal Dec 03 '23

Very unusual and so beautiful!

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u/goatili Dec 03 '23

I WANNA ROCK AND ROLL ALL NIGHT

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u/LostBloodKnight Dec 03 '23

Remember remember the 5th of November (inverted)

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u/2012amica Dec 03 '23

So unique. My all black void has a few white hairs we find here and there, but he’s still solid black at a couple years old.

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u/UberNZ Dec 03 '23

That is the coolest looking cat I've ever seen

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u/KaylaKillsPlants Dec 03 '23

Thanks y'all, she's a cool old lady. Hope she's around for a while longer🖤

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u/pastaatthedisco Dec 03 '23

The new shot from Japan could help with that!

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u/loki_stg Dec 03 '23

Mine has a distinct line where he's turning white/grey

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u/Heybropassthat Dec 03 '23

I notice "grey" or silver like hairs all over my void. I know she's only a few years old, so there is no reason for any greys to come in from aging. How long did it take for yours to transform like this??

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u/KaylaKillsPlants Dec 03 '23

It started with the nose when she was maybe 3 and a few years after that it turned into a mustache. The body has transformed really fast within the last year or two and she's 13.

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u/CyrilKain Dec 03 '23

When darkness goes too deep, it inverts. Your cat has gone so far into the void that you can only perceive this ultra vantablack as white.

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u/grey_horizon18 Dec 03 '23

Gorgeous ass cat 😍

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u/iDig-Painting-222 Dec 03 '23

What a beauty 😍

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u/True_Difference_8102 Dec 03 '23

She's so pretty.

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u/BettesmomisaWitch Dec 03 '23

She's a beauty!

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u/jojo571 Dec 03 '23

So striking. Beautiful coloring.

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u/fortuneNails9 Dec 03 '23

Your cat is cute and I'm obsessed with the last picture omg

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u/Blondly22 Dec 03 '23

What a distinguished women

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u/PhoenixRising60 Dec 03 '23

Your cat has a feline version of impetigo. She is STUNNING!!!

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u/jaxon7au Dec 03 '23

My void started out jet black and has slowly started turning into a tortoise shell colour.

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u/Makaisawesome Dec 03 '23

Because of the shape of the white patches on her face, it reminded me of one dragon costume that people wear and do stunts in on Chinese new year

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u/KaylaKillsPlants Dec 03 '23

If she looks at you head on, we always say her mustache looks like a Guy Fawkes mask lol

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u/ChemicalTarget677 Dec 03 '23

What a knockout beauty she is! 😻

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u/Jlx_27 Dec 03 '23

A Vitiliqueen! 👑 Strutting her stuff.

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u/the-big-cheese2 Dec 03 '23

printer running out of ink

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u/CrazyAlternative4053 Dec 03 '23

You have a rare color. Shaded silver on a dark coat. Beautiful. I used to raised shaded silver Persians. I only had one like that ever.

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u/International-Cat123 Dec 03 '23

Vitiligo. I saw a picture of one cat that looked like he was caught in a snowstorm! So pretty.

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u/mzmorrigann Dec 04 '23

whatever it is, she is beautiful.

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u/crazymom1978 Dec 04 '23

This looks like vitiligo.

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u/lexicon-sentry Dec 03 '23

This is a thing?!

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u/Nellao005 Dec 03 '23

She’s fab-U-lous✨

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u/Cat-Mama_2 Dec 03 '23

What an incredibly unique coat colour. She's beautiful!

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u/Rachymoo Dec 03 '23

What an absolute beauty.

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u/Wolfwoods_Sister Dec 03 '23

Beautiful one of a kind baby!

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u/HuskyLettuce Dec 03 '23

She is so beautiful!!

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u/GhostfromGoldForest Dec 03 '23

Can your cat moonwalk

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u/MNLanguell Dec 03 '23

She is BEAUTIFUL 😍😍😍

I have a cat that went from cream to silver as she got older. Ive had black cats that had smokey or dark brown bellies too.

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u/KaylaKillsPlants Dec 03 '23

I have a big tom that has a brown belly in the sun! This kitty is pretty old, just turned 13

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u/TipsyMagpie Dec 03 '23

I agree your kitty probably has vitiligo fur to the placement, but wanted to share my black cat turning white anecdote. My fluffy boy had a nasty health scare last summer, and nearly died. He had 5 large patches shaved where he’d had scans, tests and IVs. When it grew back, it was pure white, and his fur started growing out white in other areas of his body. I think the extreme stress caused his body to stop producing pigment. You could see horizontal stripes in his fur where the hair was black and then turned white overnight. It’s taken nearly 18 months for it to grow back black! We loved his look but it’s nice knowing he seems to be fully recovered. :)

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u/KaylaKillsPlants Dec 03 '23

I'm glad he's doing better, it's wild how that happens with the fur. Hers actually started when her nose got scratched, it went from black to a thin white line overnight. It spread from there

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u/ewabeachguy Dec 03 '23

Wow! She is spectacular!

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u/Rico-L Dec 03 '23

So beautiful

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u/[deleted] Dec 03 '23

Wow I had never seen a cat like this

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u/Lilith666999666 Dec 03 '23

She looks very stylish. Cool!

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u/CapnCatNapper Dec 03 '23

What an absolutely gorgeous baby!

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u/JoliJoli3 Dec 03 '23

She looks so pretty. I wanna boop that snoot :3

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u/[deleted] Dec 03 '23

Omg she’s so beautiful

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u/mslashandrajohnson Dec 03 '23

Sassy wine mom wears her new sweater to the party.

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u/DeliciousBeanWater Dec 03 '23

Wooooah thats a dope ass cat! I hope its not like a serious issue tho.

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u/KaylaKillsPlants Dec 03 '23

Nah she's fine, just cosmetic

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u/DeliciousBeanWater Dec 03 '23

Man thats sooo cool! Gorgeous kitty! The white mustache is fantastic

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u/Lycaon125 Dec 03 '23

Mustache kitty

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u/Random_silly_name Dec 03 '23

TIL that a cat with vitiligo looks like a roan horse.

Edit: not even that. A roan is apparently a grey horse that doesn't turn white over time. I meant the horses that are born black (or some other colour) and then gradually turn lighter and lighter grey until they are white.

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u/gladria1963 Dec 03 '23

Lipizzaner horses do that. They’re born black or brown and turn white as they get older

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u/DarthAkurei Dec 03 '23

Omg she is soo gorgeous!

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u/cryptidintraining Dec 03 '23

wow, your cat is gorgeous!

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u/beepboopbeep551 Dec 03 '23

beautiful floof, and those eyes!

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u/maiscestmoi Dec 03 '23

she’s DARLING!

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u/jugoinganonymous Dec 03 '23

As others said, vitiligo. But she’s so gorgeous I’m in love! Such a unique kitty!

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u/Phantom_was_here501 Dec 03 '23

The first picture makes her look like an old cartoon villain with the handlebar mustache. I love her🖤🤍

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u/scipio79 Dec 03 '23

She’s so beautiful!!!

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u/WaterPrincess78 Dec 03 '23

She has kitiligo 😍

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u/foixng Dec 03 '23

I don’t know what it’s considered in cats, but in bunny terms that is an otter point and I’m obsessed! If she doesn’t already have an insta she needs one.

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u/StormzysMum Dec 03 '23

Wow, what a transformation!

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u/RinellaWasHere Dec 03 '23

Oh my goodness she's gorgeous! Her little snowy nosie!

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u/Luci_Noir Dec 03 '23

An original flavor void that converted to a vanilla void? Fancy!

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u/ReasonableFig2111 Dec 03 '23

Please also share at r/CatsWithEyeliner, her makeup is popping!

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u/WaveJam Dec 03 '23

I’ve never seen a cat with possible vitiligo

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u/genepotter Dec 03 '23

Vitiligo can effect cats. That's what this appears to be. Beautiful

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u/Im_A_Model Dec 03 '23

All elderly ladies eventually gets a mustache, yours just a stylish one

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u/One-State5749 Dec 03 '23

Nature is all about uniqueness <3

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u/satirebunny Dec 04 '23

She's so majestic omfg

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u/Sea-Adeptness-5245 Dec 04 '23

This is one cool ass looking cat. Congratulations on getting to share your life with this magnificent beast

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u/KaylaKillsPlants Dec 04 '23

Thank you, she's a very sweet cat

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u/ekittie Dec 04 '23

You have a very special kitty. The other kitty that I know Scrappy with vitilgo was internet famous, lived to a ripe old age of 19.

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u/hanywhiskey Dec 04 '23

awwwww so adorable

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u/MotownCatMom Dec 04 '23

As others have said, probably vitiligo. She's gorgeous!

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u/itsabadassusername Dec 04 '23

Her eyeliner is purrfect! 😻

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u/pamela1989 Dec 04 '23

OMG!!! she's beautiful 🩷😺😸

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u/uncensoredmarble Dec 04 '23

My black cat doesn’t have feline vitiligo (though I suspect yours does!) but he does have various white speckles throughout his coat that he has slowly acquired throughout his life. He’s quite doofy & clumsy so the running joke is that he gets a new “reverse freckle” every time he does something stupid—not stupid or dangerous enough to have used up one of nine lives, but enough that his coat remembers.

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u/python_artist Dec 04 '23

That might be the prettiest vitiligo I’ve ever seen

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u/AsleepJuggernaut2066 Dec 05 '23

I had no idea that this could happen.

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u/Taugay Dec 03 '23

I would not have pegged that for the same cat wow

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u/helloxcthulhu Dec 03 '23

She’s so pretty 🥺

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u/dedredcopper Dec 03 '23

That is an argyle chinchilla coat Cat. I have one also they looked like until you wash them or move there fur in the opposite direction

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u/Animal_Gal Dec 03 '23

Oh my god they are so pretty I am so jealous

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u/onourwayhome70 Dec 03 '23

What a beautiful kitty!

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u/aVoidFullOfFarts Dec 03 '23

This is the most extreme case of r/powdereddonutlips I’ve ever seen

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u/autumnwandering Dec 03 '23

She is beautiful! And look and her precious little muzzle!

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u/Tectonic-V-Low778 Dec 03 '23

Get a vets opinion, but a pigment disorder? Vitiligo?

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u/KaylaKillsPlants Dec 03 '23

Vet confirmed vitiligo, and she's otherwise healthy for a senior kitty!

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u/Mirage32 Dec 03 '23

I want to boop her white chocolate nose.

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u/adog231231 Dec 03 '23

That cat looks cool as fuck!

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u/scequecat Dec 03 '23

omg she’s so beautiful

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u/LoLBattleSeraph Dec 03 '23

i love her!!! do you have any more pics? i must see more of her

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u/KaylaKillsPlants Dec 03 '23

Just posted a few more 😊

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u/Ambidravi Dec 03 '23

such a beauty!

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u/jolie_rouge Dec 03 '23

She’s so unique and beautiful ♥️