1. Reasons for black hair of Siamese cats
Siamese cats just The color of the hair at birth is white, because the newborn Siamese cat has just come out of the warm belly of the cat mother, so it will be born with snow-white hair, but as the Siamese cat grows older , its white hair will gradually fall off, and new hair will grow, and its face and extremities will generally become darker and darker.
However, the blackening of the Siamese cat’s hair has nothing to do with its age, and the change of its hair color is mainly affected by the activity of tyrosinase in the body, and the activity of tyrosinase in the Siamese cat has a significant effect on the tyrosinase activity. The external temperature is very sensitive. When the temperature of the external environment is low, the activity of tyrosinase in the body increases, thereby accelerating the production of melanin, causing the hair of the Siamese cat to turn black. And most of the parts where Siamese cat hair turns black are on the face, ears and limbs where the amount of hair is small and exposed.
Sometimes owners find that after shaving a Siamese cat, parts of its fur begin to gradually darken. In fact, shaving a Siamese cat is not the root cause of its black hair, it just accelerates the process of its hair turning black. Worry, because the blackened coat
of a Siamese cat can return to its original shape as the temperature returns.
Second, the regularity of hair discoloration in Siamese cats
Siamese cats The hair can be either black or white. The melanin gene of Siamese cats changes with temperature. When the temperature of the Siamese cat’s skin is low, its hair will turn black and pasty, and when its skin temperature is high, the color of its hair will change. It will turn back to creamy white.
Siamese cat’s hair turns white in summer mainly because the temperature of the environment increases, the melanin gene in its body is suppressed, and the synthesis of melanin is reduced, so that its hair turns white. In general, the coat color of Siamese cats changes according to the temperature.
In addition, the blackened parts of Siamese cat’s hair mainly reflect its limbs, tail and face. what about this? In fact, because the above parts are more easily affected by the temperature, the Siamese cat’s body is not so easy to change with the temperature, so in winter, the Siamese cat often turns black, and the color of the hair on its body is only Black and pasty.
In addition, young Siamese cats are generally lighter in color, most of them are white, but as Siamese cats age, the color of their hair will become darker and darker , but these are normal phenomena, the owner does not need to worry.
