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Never heard it. either, and I've had multiple cats all my life. The only thing I can think of is that kittens are born with blue eyes, and adult eye color sets in when they're 5-6 months old. Maybe the feeding of fish happened to coincide with they baby to adult eye color change and got connected because they occurred in the same time frame.
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yeah, that's pretty bizarre. i've never noticed that feeding a cat fish will change it's eye color- though perhaps she got this mistaken idea because cats' eye color can change a lot through their first couple years on their own, like people's eyes. If she was feeding a cat fish while it's eyes were changing color- voila! false correlation. Thinking of eye color, I've got kinda catty-colored eyes- yellow with dark green rings. a lot of people have asked if I have colored contacts on. Nope! They were blue when I was a kid, maybe they turned this color because of all the fish I eat... Yeah, that must be it.
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I recall being told at one point that fish-flavoured cat food (as opposed to beef- or chicken-flavoured) was bad for housecats, though I don't remember why this was supposed to be true. Perhaps she heard a variation of this?
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Mom says she is convinced it is true but I have no idea where she may have heard it. I too have had cats all my life and I've never heard anything remotely like it. Not even the one about fish being bad for them. No matter anyways, my cats don't like fish. But I will ask my cats' vet about that one out of curiosity.
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I never feed animals fish, but that is more a matter or fishbreath than any sort of health issues. Maybe she got confused by the fact that tuna is bad for cats, and translated that to mean that any sort of fish or fish flavored food is bad for them.
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Heh, if this worked I'd be tempted to feed daily doses of fish to my mitted blue/cream point siamese -- her eyes started as a lovely light sky blue, lightened until they were almost grey, and currently are positively purple.
Unfortunately, the purple makes her look like she's been on a week long bender in Vegas... totally bloodshot looking. Vet says they're just colored that way (yes, my little ones DO go to the vet at the slightest hint that anything MIGHT be wrong... if the vet had kids, I'd say we're paying for thier collage LOL)... but I really hope they decide to change. While having a cat with almost purple eyes is interesting, it makes her look even stranger than usual.
Which is saying something, as her current moniker is "The Cat of Many Colors".
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quote:Originally posted by Arriah: I've missed that one, why is tuna bad for cats?
Mine will be awefully dissappointed, I usually let them clean out the can when I use tuna. (safety can, so no sharp edges)
Too much tuna can lead to a painful disease of their fatty tissue (which means avoiding certain foods to prevent recurrence). Cleaning out a can once in a while is unlikely to do any harm.
Excessive fish (e.g. feeding fish-based cat foods all the time) has been linked to increased risk of hyperthyroidism in cats.
It all comes down to needing a balanced diet where you give a mix of fish, red meat and poultry.
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Arriah, according to the link that geminilee posted, it's only excessive feeding of tuna that is bad for cats. The little they get from your tuna can will not hurt them.
ETA Spanked! and by a whole hour, too. That should teach me to refresh the page before answering posts.
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Eye colour of any creature is inherited, but it also changes through the life. Both kittens and puppies are born with some shade of blue eyes (from bright pale blue to very deep blue/black), which then change to the yellow or brown in dogs and whatever yellow or green in cats, unless they are one of the blue eyed breeds. My 3 years old Whippet had black eyes (you could not see where the pupil was) untill she was about 18 months old, they slowly changed into dark brown. In people bright blue eyes often fade with age.
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