Odd Eyed Cats

When talking about unique cats, odd eyed cats are often raised as examples, unique in the sense that the colors of odd eyed cats aren’t matched.

Known as the complete heterochromia condition in humans, an odd eyed cat’s eye colors are oftentimes a mismatched set of blue and green, blue and yellow (copper) or blue and brown.

The condition happens to all types of cats, but most instances of odd eyes are known to happen in white colored or predominantly white colored cats.

The condition is linked to genetics, mostly occurring in cats which have higher dominant white and the white spotting gene. White genes in cats are known to mask other coat colors, while the white spotting gene induces the bicolored condition in cats. 

Odd eyed cats, because of their genetic make ups, gain their condition due to the prevention of melanin reaching one eye during their development, brought about their genetic development framework.

Since the color of a newborn kitten’s eyes changes over time – a condition that also applies to most newborn mammals – spotting an odd eyed kitten from birth is difficult, but close observation of a kitten’s development can point odd eyes out.

Deafness has been attributed to be a condition experienced by odd eyed cats, but this doesn’t mean that all odd eyed cats are deaf. However, because of the predominance of the white gene, most odd eyed and all white cats are prone for higher incidences of genetic deafness, thus the deafness and odd eyed cats association.

Other than its connection with deafness, odd eyed cats are essentially no different from other cats, felines who sleep through most of the day, nocturnal in their adventures and activities, as catty as cats can be.

If you want a unique cat around your house, an odd eyed cat will surely draw a lot of inquisitive attentions.

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Crazy Fun Facts About Koala

Koala (Phascolarctos cinereus) is a arboreal herbivorous marsupila native to Australia, Koala's are found in the coastal regions of eastern and southern Australia from Adelaide to the southern part of Cape York Peninsula.

Wombat (picture from wiki.com)

  Koala (picture from wiki.com) 

A koala are often mistaken for a wombat or a type of bear hence the name "Koala bear", the only difference is that a koala has a thicker coat of fur, large ears and a longer limbs. Usually spends its time up a eucalyptus tree eating the leaves and resting or sleeping for about 18 hours a day.

A baby koala is called a "joey" it is remained hidden in a mother koala's pouch for atleast six months feeding on milk, at 8 months old "joeys" begins to explore outside but remained near the mother or riding at its back at this stage it begin to consume small amounts of mothers "pap" inorder to inoculate its gut with microbes necessary to digest eucalyptus leaves upon adulthood.

Koalas walk on all four legs when walking on the ground, joey clinging to the back (picture from wiki.com)

The Australian Government now list the koala as a priority species for conservation status assessment, the estimates of the national koala population numbers are in hundreds of thousand, although other studies have estimated that as few as 80,000 koala's are left in the wild.

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