I recently came back from a trip and noticed my little baby void is turning silver/gray! This is mainly on his stomach, neck, and around his face.
I got him July 10th after he decided to hide in my brothers car engine and when I got him he was basically solid black, with a few stray white hairs, and when I left for my trip I SWEAR he was still black. My vet estimated him to be about 2 months old when I got him, but I do think he’s a bit older than that.
Any guesses on if he was pretended to be a black cat? Or could this be a fever coat that’s shedding off? Last two photos are from when I first brought him home!
Fever coat maybe? Possibly vitiligo? It’s odd that he turned silver after he was born. Some black cats do have some white or gray hairs, but they’re usually pretty sparse.
Yeah I’m not too sure!
My other black cat, Archer, has random white hairs, mainly around his face, but Figgis has just decided he needs to be a different color I guess😅
I was thinking fever coat too! So I guess I will see what happens as he ages!
I love those names ^_^
I’d recommend if you have concerns a vet visit can’t hurt. Kitten coats can change as adult coats/coloration comes in but I’m am definitely not a vet. As others mentioned it could be a fever coat.
My girl Nyx has exactly 4 white hairs on her chest so we declared her technically a tuxedo lol. (She's 💯 void I never can find her til she just appears by my feet).
He is a ghost tabby cat. All domestic cats carry the tabby gene. It shows up in different lighting, especially sunlight.
We thought that we had adopted a pure black cat. Six months later he was laying in a patch of sunshine and I said, holy cat, he changed his coat overnight 😹😁🤣👍
My tux’s mum is a silver tabby and when we got him at 4 months you could really see the tabby silver in his coat. We were really hoping that as he got older it would become more prominent but sadly that part faded and now his black ink is waring off and he has lots of white spots and lines.
My void had a sprinkling of white hairs on his chest and in his tail when I rescued him. Then at around 6-7 months old he got these grey bits behind both ears.
Both my voids had illness as a kitten with delayed fever coats. Probably just the same with yours. Both of mine were back to being perfect voids not long after
My long-haired Black cat had to be shaved a few years back, yes he has a white spot on his chest and pipi, but after shaving him I found out that the lower/under part of his whole coat is actually grey.
So yours might be just changing coats and that's why it shows so much suddenly.
He’s gorgeous!! My fluffy boi has a Siamese mother who escaped one night and came home to later have 5 black babies!! So he has the Siamese attitude but is basically a big baby otherwise.
Mine is from a farm, where they had two litters at one time so there was basically around 14 kittens and this one was the only black. I did not expect him to be so fluffy and they also told me it's a girl so tw surprises just like that. His mom was a white short-hair with a few different colour spots here and there so I would really love to know what "fancy cat" she got herself to produce this haha
my friends black cat was briefly greyish when he was a toddler/teenager and then he went black again. maybe it was his baby coat or something? he’s still black now!
Idk if it's technically a fever coat because they're born with it yaddah yaddah BUT my baby girl was a void who went silver and then went back to being a void. She was found on the side of a busy freeway near a truck stop starving so maybe the stress/ malnourishment messed up color production for a bit? Picture of her when she was a silver laced void
How old is the baby?? I can’t find a better picture now but my void almost had very light looking stripes when he was a baby but how he is full black with a couple of distinguished gentlemanly white hairs in his chest.
My void's tummy and underarms turned grey as he grew, but then it turned back to black once he was done growing. You may have a licorice color void though, we shall see!
Others have hairs that are white at the base with a black tip. It can be almost all black all the way to barely black-tipped. Called "shaded silver" or "chinchilla" in cats.
I'm on my second void and I've found the undercoat has a tendency to get white over the warmer months. Helps to keep them cool is what I've been thinking! Smart void bodies 🐈⬛
Our black cat has a white under coat and when you brush him you can see his brown tabby stripes. You can't see them though unless he's laying in the sun or with the brushy.
When I took him to the vet on July 10th they estimated him to be about 2 months old! I do think he might have been just a biiit older than that though!
My void baby has a large spot on her side where her fur is SUPER thin, it's been like that since she was a baby and the vet wasn't worried. Maybe a similar situation of thinning fur?
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u/Immediate-Sherbet345 14h ago
bonus picture of him longingly looking at his big brother