If some parents ask if there are Siamese cats with white paws, it should be that this parent is not very clear about the principle of Siamese cat fur color. If the Siamese cat is still small, not to mention the paws, or the whole body is white fur, it looks almost no shadow of Siamese cat.
The darkening and blackening of the Siamese cat’s fur is the result of melanin formed through the conversion of tyrosinase, which is sensitive to external temperature. When the temperature is low, tyrosinase can function normally and catalyze the generation of melanin from tyrosine, so why is it that Siamese cats are white when they are just born? It is also the same principle. Because the newly born cat still maintains the temperature in the womb, the outside temperature has not yet acted on the kitten in the womb. Only after coming out of the mother’s body and in the process of growth will the accent color genetic pattern gradually programmed.
If a Siamese cat still has white paws at this time after reaching adulthood, this situation is related to the Siamese cat’s genes. When Siamese cats with the accent color gene start to change their body color in contrast to the accent color area when they are kittens or young adults. In simple terms, Siamese cats with accent colors have darker coats as the temperature gets cooler and whiter coats as the temperature gets warmer. For example, seal and blue colors take a year or two or even several years before the body color becomes heavy.
So that’s why parents find that some Siamese cats turn into a big black face in winter, so dark that parents are wondering if it’s a different cat, ugly, ugly, ugly. This is also due to the drop in temperature, so parents should not worry.
