This Unusual White Cat

Came over inquisitively

A local white cat — Photo by Author

Introduction

Having recently written about a visit to the walled peace garden where a white cat was happily snoozing on the warm paving stones, Dennett commented on how white cats are rare. I admit I haven’t knowingly seen a white cat but, since then, I was alerted to their rarity.

So, imagine my surprise when I spotted this semi-friendly, white cat with bright blue eyes wandering around near our local railway station. She had a pure white coat with a lovely, bushy tail that I took hold of to feel its silky softness.

I managed to snap a few photos, though she didn’t stay still for a moment, so most of them are rubbish (garbage), but at least one or two came out well enough to share here.

Turkish angora

I put one of the pictures into Google to find out what breed of cat it was, and it came back with the answer: Turkish angora. What I particularly noticed were the blue eyes.

From pictures I’ve seen on the internet, their eyes can be light brown/amber or even one eye blue and the other one amber (i.e. heterochromic). Interestingly, this breed originally had heterochromic eyes.

Apparently, this is a very old breed that is thought to have developed in Ankara, Turkey, which was…