British Shorthair Blue Eyes
A number of careful breeders worked to recreate and restore numbers using a combination of british shorthairs persians russian blues.
British shorthair blue eyes. Our cattery is located in washington state usa. Accompanied by the blue fur their damning copper eyes are a killer. The combination of the two made an eye catching contrast that. The tales of british blue s beauty have not been greatly exaggerated.
Those 2 along with yellow and green are the most popular colors of british shorthair eyes. Despite being popular at the crystal palace cat show of 1871 by the end of world war ii along with many other british cat breeds the british shorthair numbers were devastated. All british shorthair kittens are born with blue eyes. Other eye colour combinations are not accepted.
Why do british blues have copper eyes. A white british shorthair cat can have sapphire blue eyes known as a blue eyed white bsh. Seal silver shaded blue eyed british shorthair duration. Copper eye british blue.
This transition starts when they are around 6 8 weeks old and continues until they are around 2 years old when they finally reach their full colour. Gradually as they mature the eyes turn to their actual colour. Doubloon british shorthairs have one white blue eyed male kitten available ice warrior was born 5th june 2014 and will be ready to go to his new family around the 6th september. They are approximately at the middle of these.
Her eyes are large and round with amber orange or copper irises. If you are wondering how much pigment do cats need in the iris in order to create these last 2 ones i can t answer exactly. Orange eyed white bsh cats should have copper amber or deep gold eyes. Faceti cunostinta cu cele mai dulci pisicute.
She has a solid cobby body a rounded head and rounded features. That blue eyes considered the most beautiful color even at humans are not special at all. The chubby cheeked blue cat was a result of breeding between a british shorthair cat and a russian blue cat. No matter what the final eye colour will.
The british shorthair is the pedigreed version of the traditional british domestic cat with a distinctively stocky body dense coat and broad face. They are perhaps the most popular colour for this breed. Odd eyed bsh cats must have one sapphire blue eye and one amber or golden eye. A chubby round faced cat blessed with the russian blue fur and the copper eyes of a british shorthair.
As a result of this breeding we got the births blue. British blue cats were created in the early days of the breed when british shorthair cats were. British shorthair 831 views. The breeder of british shorthair cats and british longhair cats of silver shaded golden shaded and chinchilla colors with blue and green eyes.
You just need to be blessed with no pigment in the iris. Odd eyes are also accepted by the breed standard. The ideal british blue has solid blue grey fur with no other colours or markings. At any rate the newly named british shorthair was featured at the first cat show which was organized by weir in 1871 held at the crystal palace the breed began to fall out of favor in the 1890s when persian and other imported long haired breeds overtook its popularity.
It has a very soft wool it resembles a. Otherwise if the iris has absolutely no pigment the eyes will be blue. The accepted date of origin of the british shorthair as we know it today is 1870. The most familiar color variant is the british blue a solid grey blue coat orange eyes and a medium sized tail.