Cats
eyed cat. The colour is often described as coppery. Many of the breeds developed by early cat
fanciers in the UK called for orange eyes as the pale greens and yellows were considered
undistinguished, while bright orange complemented the coat colour.
Brown covers a wide range from hazel (the normal colour of temperate climate white cats)
through to darker browns. Some browns appear tinted or flecked with green, orange or
yellow.
ODD EYES (HETEROCHROMIA)
The scientific term for odd eyes is heterochromia iridium (different coloured irides). It can be
genetic (inherited), congenital (development defect) or acquired (illness, injury, medication).
In the cat fancy, odd-eyes means having one blue and one other-colour eye. Odd eyes are
most common in epistatic white cats where one eye is blue and the other is orange, yellow,
brown or green. Pedigree odd-eyed white cats have one blue and one orange/amber eye, but
in randombreds the non-blue eye may be yellow, green or brown