--- title: Coby the Cat on Instagram Has Piercing Blue Eyes: Photos description: The prettiest cat on the Internet canonical: https://time.com/4233652/coby-cat-blue-eyes/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-02-23T16:41:08.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:30:24.635Z og:title: This May Be the Prettiest Cat On the Internet og:description: He has the most stunning blue eyes og:url: https://time.com/4233652/coby-cat-blue-eyes/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: This May Be the Prettiest Cat On the Internet twitter:description: He has the most stunning blue eyes twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # This May Be the Prettiest Cat On the Internet by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Feb 23, 2016 4:41 PM UTC by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Feb 23, 2016 4:41 PM UTC Look, there are tons of cats on social media. After all, the Internet is [made of cats](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zi8VTeDHjcM). But we may have just identified the most gorgeous, stunning feline of all. He’s a British Shorthair named Coby. He’s got fluffy, snow-white fur and perfect, pointy little cat ears. But his most striking feature? His piercing blue eyes. Behold: Look at this magnificent creature: These eyes: Coby’s built up a decent following [on Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/cobythecat/), but it’s time for the entire world to bask in his feline glory. Coby’s owner, Rebecca Schefkind, wrote [on her blog](http://rebeccaschefkind.com/coby-the-cat/) that she initially started his account as a joke. “After 150k followers as well as free food and supplies from sponsors, I started to take it slightly more seriously,” she wrote. “Slash I went full on crazy cat lady.” Schefkind [told](http://mashable.com/2016/02/23/blue-eyed-cat/) _Mashable_ that Coby is about to turn one. She also reminisced about the first time she met him. “I fell in love with his blue eyes and fluffy white coat,” she said. “He fell asleep in my arms and the rest is history.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4233652/coby-cat-blue-eyes/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4233652/coby-cat-blue-eyes/"},"headline":"This May Be the Prettiest Cat On the Internet","datePublished":"2016-02-23T16:41:08.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:30:24.635Z","description":"He has the most stunning blue eyes","url":"https://time.com/4233652/coby-cat-blue-eyes/","keywords":["Newsfeed","animals"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4233652/coby-cat-blue-eyes/","name":"This May Be the Prettiest Cat On the Internet"}}]}] ```