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Old July 3rd, 2007, 10:27 PM
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Question Brown eyed cat

How common are brown eyes in a cat? Missy has brown eyes and I've never seen another cat with actual brown eyes. ive seen green, yellow, hazel, blue etc but never actual brown.

Uncommon or have I just not noticed any others?
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Old July 3rd, 2007, 10:37 PM
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Personally I've never seen that. Palomine's are an amber colour that can look brownish in certain lights... but I've never seen a cat with dark eyes before.

Aparently there are though... I just read up on cats eyes... and saw a few pictures. I would say it isn't one of the more common colours though, 5 of mine have green and one has amber.

Got any pics?
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Old July 4th, 2007, 01:38 AM
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I think they usually call it dark copper coloured IMO looks light brown
also if the cats' fur is overall a darker colour the copper eye colour looks darker

yes yes pics please
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Old July 4th, 2007, 09:44 AM
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She's a russian tuxedo ..aka russian blue + tuxedo cat :P



Hm, this is odd. When I take a picture of her, her eyes are not as brown. But if you compare them to Kaseys green-yellow eyes then you can kind of tell that they are brown.



thats the best I can do, Missy is kind of anti social and tends to run away from everyone.
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Old July 4th, 2007, 09:59 AM
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I have wondered the same thing before Kathryn. My two boy kitties both have what can be described as brown eyes. I have always just guessed that they are technically amber but a LOT of the time they're as dark brown as Judge the dog's eyes.

Sahara's eyes... always looking more amber than brown in pics because of flash.
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Old July 4th, 2007, 11:25 AM
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Such absolutely cute kitties!
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Aw cute kitties.
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Beautiful cats!!

The most common colours for eyes in cats are golden, green and orange. Brown is usually a dark golden though but it is not all that common. I have a genetic site about cats and am unsure if it covers cat eye color - you could search for it here:

http://www.tenset.co.uk/catgen/catso...rentcolor.html
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Old July 4th, 2007, 02:36 PM
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Okay thanks everyone! shes a pretty kitty but shes really mean. My mom called her "Pissy" Missy because shes always in a miserable mood. so no one gets to see her pretty self
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My friend told me that brown eyes where rare in cats but i didn't believe him thus is my kitty Salamander Excalibur Lil$#!t ² Hes such an attention whore i him
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Brown eyed Tuxedo cat

Piper had brown eyes, and which are extremely rare in cats. Every vet I had been to, had never seen one before.
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omgoodness, what a beautiful cat! Very exotic-looking with those brown eyes. I've never seen a cat in person with brown eyes.
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Those are lovely brown eyes. I've never seen brown eyes in a cat before either.
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Old March 26th, 2017, 09:25 PM
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Adorable kitty you have I've never seen brown eyes on a kitty before either. Very cool looking!
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She's a russian tuxedo ..aka russian blue + tuxedo cat :P



Hm, this is odd. When I take a picture of her, her eyes are not as brown. But if you compare them to Kaseys green-yellow eyes then you can kind of tell that they are brown.



thats the best I can do, Missy is kind of anti social and tends to run away from everyone.
I am not able to see the photos .
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I don't think kathryn's photo link is working, Barkingdog. I can't see them, either.
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WOW ! That is so exotic looking a cat with brown eyes ! That is a beautiful !

You just prove this web site wrong too , it said cats don't get brown or black eyes like people do .

http://www.pets.ca/forum/newreply.ph...te=1&p=1076333
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