“it’s fine to fake it till you make it till you do/ till it’s true/ now it’s like snow on the beach”

[larryhammer]

In conversation, I was about to mention that no matter what color the cat, their hairballs are always grey—but then I realized, I’ve never lived with a white cat. So a question for anyone who can confirm:

Do white cats have white or grey hairballs?

---L.

Subject quote from Snow on the Beach, Taylor Swift ft. Lana Del Rey.

Comments

[movingfinger]

Cat-food-colored: a beige. Hair passed normally, if there's a lot of it, can show as a fibrous whitish material. Ish. (As grass can.)

[movingfinger]

The Eufy starting reminds me, if a hairball is deposited in a sufficently covert place to have time to dry out and get picked up by the robovac's roller, it is a very dirty whitish, but more whitish than the fresh. Coloration seems mostly to depend on how recently the cat ate before ejecting the hairball.

In most cats, the undercoat, which is the bulk of groomed fur, is whitish-to-beigish-grey, so it makes sense that most of the hairballs are in that range.

[larryhammer]

Thanks. The undercoat thing got me wondering -- I thought white cats have white undercoats but wasn't sure.