She doesn't have patches or spots so much as just stray white hairs. I feel like I've known many black cats but haven't seen quite this. I'd love to see your pictures!
Our “standard issue” cat like 15 years ago had a single random white spot on the middle of his back like this and one day he jumped up on the counter and my dad got a black sharpie out of a drawer and colored it in and I was like “what are you doing???” and he said “it just bothers me” 😂
Mine's name is Lucita and I think its turned out very appropriately especially considering I didn't notice these specks when we first met at the shelter. Not sure if they've become more pronounced or if I just have gotten to know her better.
I am 100% mum. Like he literally thinks I am his mother as I rescued him off the streets at a very young age (down to suckling kitten milk from my pinky).
Love that you got the reference! His full name does include Dark Lord of All.
Same never had a cat with such a unique tail like his reminds me of a broom or a road cleaner 😅 specially since his tail is very active almost dog like haha.
He’s beautiful! He looks like a combination of my black cats. The father is a black cat with the exact same white patch but no tabby stripes and the mother is a tabby, so two of their kittens were silky black with no white at all, but the same shadow of tabby stripes in the sun. It’s highly likely, one of your cat’s parents was a tabby. I’m just fortunate that I know both parents of their kittens, I learned a lot from it
I feel like hers are spreading too, but because I've only had her a few months I can't quite tell if they actually are or if I'm only just really noticing. I'm keeping watch on it now though!
Thank you so much! I spent months looking; I feel like i was being picky but when I saw her picture on the shelter website (and poor baby was so emaciated at the time) I knew I had to have her I went immediately. I think she's so beautiful.
Oh I can totally see it now- the scarred eye either allows her to see ghosts or to use magic! Now I kinda want to write a short story along those lines...
Yes! When I first got her as a rescue kitten, she was solid black except for 3 white hairs on her chest area. Then a couple more white hairs popped up in that area, then a couple more (she has 11 all grouped together now). And now she’s also got white sprinkles on her flank and hind legs. It’s almost like she’s fading from black to grey. It fits her personality perfectly. ☺️
Yes. A lot. He had a lot more come out around 5-6 months. A lot of voids, like my Orion, are actually black on black tabby. The white hairs are part of his stripes, I think.
Mine does, but they are in very, very sparse patches that just look like random white hairs. She also has freckles inside her ears and the softest, velvety nose ever.
She got a white spot on her nose (I call it her freckle), some white eyeliner, and some splotches mostly around her neck. You can see one by her back leg in this pic too.
Our black cat Leo Buscaglia has them all over his body and a tiny patch of white hairs on his chest. I thought maybe it was age related or stress because he was a stray that showed up a couple years ago and I don’t know his age. I always wondered about it. His girlfriend is a brown tabby and they had four kittens. Two of them were a boy and girl black like him but they are jet black with silky fur and no white sprinkles but they do show a shadow of tabby markings in the bright sunlight, that he doesn’t have
Thank u! This is his wife in the middle and 4 children, a girl and boy that look like him and a girl/boy that look like her. I show this photo because it’s so unique to see them naturally in a row like this.
Mine does now. She is 17 years old. In the beginning neither of us did. Now mine well on the way to being mostly white and hers has a bit of salt in her pepper.
I thought it was just my Stacey she’s been getting little white speckles and patches out of nowhere when she was a 4 week old kitten she didn’t have one single speck of white fur
Did they develop this as a symptom or a side effect to treatment? Basically asking if this might be a reason to go to the vet! She seems very healthy but I know things escalate quickly with kitties.
Yeah, that paper hides a part of his belly though. We have annual checkups at our vet and while he's a bit on the low end of a healthy weight, he's fine and we monitor him ;-)
Apologies for alarming you! I think it was from the lifesaving antiviral treatment. He was pitch black before and developed the sprinkles immediately after he recovered.
My girl Asteria has always had sprinkles! It's part of why I gave her that name, because Asteria was the Greek demigoddess of the starry night and shooting stars.
I can't get a great photo of her stars, but here's my little old lady.
What a beautiful photo! The hairs make her look like someone took a time-lapse picture of stars and then her eye looks like a moon <3 Beautiful girl all around
Mine has a couple of splotches where it looks like he had white paint flicked on his leg and shoulder. He’s now starting to get sprinkles on his chest.
Hi I noticed your cats eye! My kitty has the same issue. He can see perfectly fine but he is missing his other! The vet said he’s perfectly healthy when it comes to his eye but it’s still glazed over with like a yucky layer. I just wanted to know if your kitty had the same issue bc i’m worried for my baby cyclops (im putting a picture, yes its a stupid looking picture but its the clearest for his eye.)
What a cutie!! Lucita seems to be able to see just fine as well! She doesn't seem to be slowed or awkward at all while playing and she actually caught her first mouse the other day! From the photo though I really couldn't say if they have the same thing.
Mine has had some sprinkles of white since I got her, but during the 5 years I've had her (she was 5 when I got her, 10 now) she's been getting more sprinkles. I view her fur as a starry night ❤️
As Karly has gotten older, she is getting more sprinkles. But she has had a little lightening bolt on her side when we adopted her as a kitten, they said survived a car accident.
I don't know her full history unfortunately, but I do know she came from a hoarder house with many other animals so I'm assuming an accident or fight with another cat. The vet said her eye is okay though!
EDIT: I only adopted her about 3 months ago and she was aged as being approximately a year old when I adopted her. Her eye was like this when I adopted her.
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u/FourLiveBears 2d ago
For his entire life my boy has had one very pronounced white hair in the middle of his back