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It seems like cats' eye colour is about as variable as human eye colour. I've seen everything from dark brown to amber to yellow to green to bright blue.

Coda, my tabby girl, has beautiful bright green eyes, and Cal, my grey-and-white boy, has eyes that seem to change between green and yellow. (I think he looks the most striking when his eyes are bright yellow...something about a blue-grey cat with bright yellow eyes just gets me every time.)

I know cat eye colour is genetic, and seems to be linked to colour and breed. Of course, with most cats being such a mix breed-wise, I think it's always neat to see such a diverse mix of coat and eye colours.

What colour are your cats, and what colour are their eyes?
 
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See color chart to match:

Lacey - her eyes are blue, but then again she's a fancy schmanzy purebred Balinese.

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Azalia - her eyes are light seafoam spray and her coat is a brown patched classic tabby (torbie). She is quite lovely if I say so myself, but I may be biased :)

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Sasha - has marsh fern eyes and he's an all black moggie. He doesn't have a single spot of anything pure but jet black on him.

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Egypt - her eyes are somewhere in between spirit whisper and key lime now. They used to be a sparkling champagne color 2 years ago, which was kind of odd since she was already 2 years old when I got her. She is a blue mackerel tabby. Here she is in the Summer of 2011:

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Egypt - her eyes are somewhere in between spirit whisper and key lime now. They used to be a sparkling champagne color 2 years ago, which was kind of odd since she was already 2 years old when I got her. She is a blue mackerel tabby. Here she is in the Summer of 2011:

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dweamgoil, your Egypt is one of the most beautiful cats I have ever seen! :)
 
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Dark brown cat eyes? I'm curious if that's actually a color cat eyes can come in...

You usually only see amber, green and blue eyes in cats, and in that spectrum there's a wide range... like aqua blue, which is very rare. There's also Persians and a few other breeds that have the very orange/copper type eyes, but that's also quite rare and pretty much breed specific.

EDIT: Ok I went looking and found a picture of a Persian with brown eyes. I think it's pretty rare though.
 
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my both kitties are black and like most of black cats their eyes are greenish-yellowish, depending on light shining on them.
Blackberry's eyes are more green that Josie's though.

My mom has black cat and her eyes are yellow, but just different then any other yellow i see in black cats. very intense yellow, stunning.
One of my black cats that I used to have before moving to the US has green-blue eyes, they are very unusual, I love it.
 
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Great pictures, everyone.

Dweamgoil, Egypt is absolutely beautiful. I am, admittedly, biased towards tabbies, having a lovely tabby girl myself, though her eyes are green.

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I don't have any great pictures of Cal's eyes, but I have a couple where you can see the difference in his changing eye colour.

Here, you can see that his eyes appear to be pretty bright yellow.
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But here, his eyes appear to be more of a grey-ish green.
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I can't seem to figure out any rhyme or reason to what causes his eyes to change colour, but I think it's pretty neat all the same.
 
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Yes they do!

I've always loved tabbies, even before I was a cat person. Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't tabby markings sort of like human fingerprints, as in there are no two that are exactly the same?

Coda has very distinct markings on her face, legs, and tail, and a very dark stripe down the centre of her back, but the markings on her body are much fainter, and many of the faint stripes that she does have are broken, giving her coat a really beautiful ticked/spotted appearance. Her belly is spotted, too. She's such a pretty princess. :D
 
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I have 3 cats a siamese mix whose eyes are blue (surprise), my tabby girl has green eyes and my maine coon mix kitten has bright yellow eyes. I don't know about when my older cats were younger as I adopted them as an adult. But my kitten started off with green eyes and they have turned a bright yellow as he got older, it's interesting to see a orange cat with bright yellow eyes in the morning he looks like a lion!
 

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So far it is still a myth how gene affect cats eye colors. Personally I like green eyes best.

My Meatball is a Siberian. She is a golden cat, one of the rarest color in cats. However, her eye color is the most common: yellow eyes with a hint of green around pupil. My Metoo is a Birman. Same as all colorpoint cats (she is chocolate point), she has blue eyes. It was sky-blue when she was a kitten, but the color darkened a lot when she grows up :)

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My two youngest dsh's had yellow eyes as kittens but now they are both greenish around the pupil and yellow surrounding that(no they arnt real siblings ). My other is a blue point ragdoll and of course has blue eyes. We got her at six and her eyes are dark blue so not sure what they were as a kitten.
 
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Cinderella's eyes were SO blue!

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Cali's eyes

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Charlee's eyes are a little darker

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Cleo

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I'd love to someday have a big cat, my girls are so tiny (don't let the long hair fool you).

Himmies do have beautiful eyes! Here's Gigi, sweetest kitty EVER with me, but good grief, did she ever hate my twins!

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I have three black cats (domestic shorthairs). One has yellow eyes (Papito). One has green (Diablo). One now has yellowish/orange eyes, but they were a beautiful chocolate brown color when she was a kitten (Daytona).

Erek has yellow eyes (DLH, black and white tuxedo).
Persephone has yellow eyes (DSH, gray and white).


My special eye kitties right now are my fosters.

"Mama Tootsie" is a black DSH with one yellow eye and one blue.

Her six kittens were all black (one was black/white tuxedo). Three of the kittens had blue eyes, and kept them blue (at 4 months, still blue). The other three have brown eyes.

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#26 ·
Black cats with blue eyes! I love it!

That's rather unusual, is it not? I think every black cat I've ever seen has had either yellow or green eyes.

Those kittens are absolutely precious.

Love everyone else's photos, too! The people on this forum belong to some really beautiful cats!
 
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Yes, very uncommon. :) Here's a better shot of their mother's different colored eyes. The vet picked her as "cat of the day" when she was spayed, and they managed to get a much better picture of her eyes than I did.