British Shorthair Cat Blue Eyes

It s the blue eyed cats who seem most likely to develop cataracts although they can affect cats with any eye colour.

British shorthair cat blue eyes. 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. A white british shorthair cat can have sapphire blue eyes known as a blue eyed white bsh. The most familiar color variant is the british blue a solid grey blue coat orange eyes and a medium sized tail. The breeder of british shorthair cats and british longhair cats of silver shaded golden shaded and chinchilla colors with blue and green eyes.

Orange eyed white bsh cats should have copper amber or deep gold eyes. This disease is most common in the blue eyed british shorthair cats. It was a british. Today they come in numerous colors.

Other eye colour combinations are not accepted. We offer kittens for sale and adoption. Odd eyes are also accepted by the breed standard. The blue also called british blue is by far the best known and at the same time one of the most popular pedigree cats.

Our cattery is located in washington state usa. British shorthair cats of other eye colours like green hazel orange and copper can also develop cataract. It is very rare for british shorthair kittens to develop cataract. 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.

The british shorthair is the pedigreed version of the traditional british domestic cat with a distinctively stocky body dense coat and broad face. All british shorthair kittens are born with blue eyes. A number of careful breeders worked to recreate and restore numbers using a combination of british shorthairs persians russian blues burmese and other pedigree and non pedigree shorthair varieties. Odd eyed bsh cats must have one sapphire blue eye and one amber or golden eye.

However the statistics are the highest for the blue eyed variant. Gradually as they mature the eyes turn to their actual colour. British shorthair cats can have eyes of various colours green copper amber and blue. The first cats were exhibited in london s crystal palace as early as 1871 under the name british shorthair.