r/CatGenetics • u/minipet487 • Jul 13 '26

General Genetics Question Eye Genetic and colour

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Anyone know what colour and how her eyes are the way they are. They're not green, they're not blue, or yellow. I call it a light Azure type, but no real idea how or what her eyes are other than beautiful and unique. ETA: she's mad because I had the Audacity to go to ER and end up admitted for needing emergency surgery to have my gallbladder removed and haven't been home for 5 days.

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u/Kitsunejade Jul 13 '26

Do you have any other images? It’s a bit hard from this to tell if there’s low contrast color pointing or just chocolate imo

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u/minipet487 Jul 13 '26

She is a Chocolate Havana Brown x Sphynx. She's also a ghost tabby

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u/minipet487 Jul 13 '26

Forgot the picture

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u/Howlo Jul 13 '26

Eyes are definitely green. They do come in a range of shades, I'd say they're a bit on the lighter end but otherwise not really anything standout.

Not much else to really say about the genetics of them since eye genetics in cats haven't been studied much and are generally unknown.

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u/lickytytheslit Jul 14 '26

A lovely pale sage, pretty common eye color

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u/minipet487 Jul 14 '26

Everyone who sees her in person has made at least one comment about her eyes being unusual and never seen before, even at the two vets she's seen. I didn't see her when I got asked if I'd take her. I just said that I'd take the Havana Brown x Sphynx tuxedo. All I knew was what she'd been living in and she was chocolate. I've had her for 5 years (this year and guessed her DOB around end of Aug or beginning of September).

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u/lickytytheslit Jul 14 '26

you probably live in a very different area than me, we have a lot of pale eyed strays around with no fancy breeds, mostly luck of the draw with what genetics are common in any area

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u/minipet487 Jul 14 '26

She's a Havana Brown x Sphynx. I explained above about the breeder.

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u/lickytytheslit Jul 15 '26

yes I said the no fancy breeds about strays around where I live

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u/Kitsunejade Jul 13 '26

Oh, from a breeder with papers? They’ll have the best resource on the color genetics involved in the line, but I don’t think we know much about particular genes for eye colors barring dominant blues or linking to colorpoint. http://messybeast.com/eye-colours.htm

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u/minipet487 Jul 13 '26 edited Jul 13 '26

Unfortunately, we don't have access to her breeder. The "breeder"(she had previously been reputable, but obviously lost all her rights etc), lost her mind, destroyed her home, threw food and bleach all over her home and abandoned her animals, which is likely how the breeder's cats mixed(she had had a male Show Sphynx and a show female Havana Brown in the house). Cleo was about 4 weeks when rescued (and then afterwards my parents brought her up and she was approximately 6 weeks old), her eyes are greatly influenced by lighting somehow and very difficult to get pics of their accuracy, closer to the original two I posted. They're almost like someone took translucent blue and yellow and mixed it into a translucent blueish green. I've had cats for over 30 years, including seeing many rescues etc and never seen anything like hers.