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Originally Posted by honeychile
Did you get her? I was wondering if she would be deaf, as are most white cats with blue eyes. She's really beautiful!
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I'm glad this thread got bumped. See, a funny thing happened on the way to the breeder...
The breeder asked us if we had any preferences on sex or color. We had no preference on sex, but we wanted to get an orange cat, or, failing that, a flamepoint cat.
Flamepoint and sealpoint colorations are a form of albinism. The fur that grows in areas of the cat that are at normal cat body temperature stays white, while the fur that grows in cooler areas of the cat's body (ears, paws, tail, parts of the face) comes in orange (for flamepoint) or grey (for sealpoint). Since the mother cat's womb is at normal cat body temperature, flamepoint and sealpoint kittens are born white, and then the color develops.
There were two white kittens in the litter, a boy and a girl. The breeder thought the boy would stay white and the girl would go flamepoint. She sent us the picture I posted.
The breeder was going to arrange to have the kitten spayed before we picked her up. Then, one day, we got an email from her saying that her usual vet was on vacation and that her backup vet wouldn't do a neuter on a kitten less than 6 months old. I was surprised - NEUTER?? Weren't we getting a girl?? It turned out that the girl stayed white and the boy went flamepoint, so she set aside the boy for us.
And here he is:
Whiskey as a kitten:
Whiskey on his first birthday: (This is my cover photo on Facebook.)
