Kitten sold too young

Oh my goodness! Look at that precious little fluffball! He is SO cute!!

Sometimes pictures fool you. Or you wind up with a borderline color - hot cream or light red....lol

I still think he's red Maybe another picture can help me decide

Ah well, you can think he's red. But I've seen him in person and I know he isn't red I specifially chose him because of his coloring
I don't care for red cats haha.

What kind of brush should I use to brush him with?

Originally Posted by jaycee

Ah well, you can think he's red. But I've seen him in person and I know he isn't red

I specifially chose him because of his coloring

I don't care for red cats haha.

What kind of brush should I use to brush him with?

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Yes but there are many different shades of red - and when it's long fur it's often a lot paler I've never seen a cream kitten look so red in photos, so it would be a first...


Cream babies (of mine):

Long hair cats need to be combed - not brushed. Get a fine and medium toothed comb and start the routine when he is a kitten.

Like I mentioned - you can have a "hot" cream or a light red - depends on the color of the mother/father and if they are dilute carriers.

If all the kittens are the same basic shade of cream, then I would suspect they all are cream; not red. If some were red, you could tell the difference in cream and red.

Originally Posted by GoldenKitty45

Long hair cats need to be combed - not brushed. Get a fine and medium toothed comb and start the routine when he is a kitten.

Like I mentioned - you can have a "hot" cream or a light red - depends on the color of the mother/father and if they are dilute carriers.

If all the kittens are the same basic shade of cream, then I would suspect they all are cream; not red. If some were red, you could tell the difference in cream and red.

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Re: combing longhaired cats... I started using a man's pocket comb on some of the longhaired rescue cats who were shedding like the dickens. It helps, as does those brushes with the "pins" in them... This one grey cat ... man.. I wear him after I hold him.. and he loves my lap!

ETA: won't the creamy colored kitten darken up a bit with age?

Wellingtoncats, he is the same color as the kitten in your first picture. Much lighter than in your 2nd picture (I would have called that one red ) Is it the same cat in both pics?

Sorry my camera is so crappy. The flash often turns things completely different colors.


Thanks for the advice on combing!

Originally Posted by GoldenKitty45

Long hair cats need to be combed - not brushed. Get a fine and medium toothed comb and start the routine when he is a kitten.

Like I mentioned - you can have a "hot" cream or a light red - depends on the color of the mother/father and if they are dilute carriers.

If all the kittens are the same basic shade of cream, then I would suspect they all are cream; not red. If some were red, you could tell the difference in cream and red.

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The mother is a red (although I prefer to say orange cause I'm silly like that) tabby. The father, unknown. Another boy kitten from the litter, also a red tabby. Two girls from the litter, red and black tortoiseshells. I never saw the rest. Mine, I would not even say a light red, definately cream, actually I was using the word "peach" to describe him before someone said cream. I can try to get some pictures of him without using the flash, but so far they always come out too fuzzy.

Okay here are pics without the flash. He wasn't moving around when I took the pictures, my camera is just that bad.

No one likes the new pics?

Will check it out at home and comment - work doesn't allow pics to show

They are 2 different kittens in my pics and 2 different breeds. The 1st is an exotic (SH) and the 2nd is a persian (LH). He definitely looks a nicer, paler cream in those pics - from what you can see of him

Kitty baby is too cute for words

The only cat my family ever bought (we've mostly taken in strays) came from this kind of dingy pet section in a back corner of a not-so-super supermarket. The sign on the kitten cage even said they were too young, to anyone that could do basic math--it gave their birth date, seven weeks ago. At that age they should have been bouncy, but they had no space to run around. We bought one on the spot--it was practically a rescue operation. So I totally understand why you bought this little cutie early to get him out of those conditions. Two more weeks of that would NOT have been better for him than two weeks with you.