Help with kitty colours please!

just wondering if you experts could help me with colouring a couple of shelter kitties?

First up is this handsome boy. Is he considered a seal point Siamese? He's not papered, which I'll put in the ad of course, but would that be the right description?





And what about this little girl? I said she was a black point smoke I've never seen this colouring on a cat before. A couple of weeks ago she was black with a bit of grey on her belly and black and now her torso is a fairly solid grey and her head, legs and tail are a pretty solid black!!

Do you think she'll end up all grey or lose the grey and become all black??

I think the little black girl will end up all black eventually. I also being the Siamese looking kitty is a Seal Point. But not sure on either of those!

Originally Posted by white cat lover

I think the little black girl will end up all black eventually. I also being the Siamese looking kitty is a Seal Point. But not sure on either of those!

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My Smudgey went through a stage of her fur going grey on her belly but it was nowhere near as much as this girl and the grey fur was pretty thin. This girl has thick grey fur!

The lovely pointed boy is indeed a seal point and the little black girl has a fever coat, she'll go back to being all black.

I had a kitten from a litter that was born solid black. At about 5-6 weeks she started to turn grey in the middle. By the time she was three months she was a dilute tortoiseshell. Another kitten from that little was born solid white and developed siamese markings as she aged, and kept her blue eyes. She now looks like a torti-point siamese, but thick and fat with a short face.

Soooooo, I guess maybe kitteh could turn grey? Or torti?

My post did have a point when I started out.

The first is a seal point (I'd mark the card seal point siamese mix since you don't have papers).

The second will probably be a black when she loses the kitten coat. There doesn't seem to be white at the base, like a smoke would be. And many times, blacks will have a greyish fever coat but when the coat is shed, it will come in black. You almost have to go by what color is on the head and legs as to the true color of the cat.

This was told to me by breeders who dealt with black and black smokes.


Gomer, I've had a tortie rex kitten that was born black - a few days later she had one tiny red spot . By the time she was a few months old, the red color was throughout the coat. I'm sure with your little kitten, there was a red dot somewhere - even on a paw pad that would have indicated tortie. Red is a slow color to come in on torties if not already there when born.