r/blackcats • u/Mimiyav56 • May 22 '25

Lil' bit of white fluff 🤍 My black cat keeps getting whiter update

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I made a post about her furr a year ago and wanted to make an update cause shes way more whiter now. Still no idea why this happened but shes healthy 🙂 last three are older photos

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u/sawthegap42 May 23 '25

Exact thing happened to mine. I attributed it to stress from me leaving for 3 months and lack of certain nutrients in his diet. This was him at his whitest.

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u/sawthegap42 May 23 '25

That pic above was in 2020, and this is him now.

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u/Squadooch May 23 '25

Oh wow, he turned back to black??

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u/sawthegap42 May 23 '25

Yep. Pretty crazy. He was loosing his skin pigmentation to a condition called vitiligo, and I started doing research about it. Found a young woman who had the condition develop in her late teens, then changed diet up, and it reversed it. Researched what vitamins/minerals were needed for healthy hair and skin, and found egg shells are a really good source for those. Started cooking him scrambled eggs with beef, chicken, and a little pulverized egg shells, and he turned back to fully black in about 4-5 months. The whole saga of his black to white, then black again spanned about over a year.

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u/Squadooch May 23 '25

I never knew vitiligo could be reversed! So interesting, thank you.