Is my cat albino?

I have a cat and his mom is Siamese and his brothers and sisters were black. I think he is albino people have said his color will come in but it has not

Gorgeous kitty. What is his name? How old is he?

It's hard to tell from the pictures, but it looks like he may have some very faint color points. Could you post pictures that show the back of his head and ears and his full tail?

He's beautiful, don't know if he's an albino or not.

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amyevy said:

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  He is adorable, and so is the bunny!

Is that light pink skin showing on the back, or like a light orange fur? Can't really tell!! but the red eyes make me think ya

He looks like a blue eyed white cat to me. The red you see in the pictures is the flash that shines through the pupil onto his choroid, a layer of blood vessels behind the retina. When you flashphotograph human eyes you will get red eyes too, it doens't mean we're all albinos, it's just our choroids showing. In cats this reflection will normally be greenish because cats have a reflective layer - tapetum lucidum- behind their retinas which helps them see in the dark better, Pointed cats and most blue eyed whites don't have a tapetum and will reflect red when flashed at.

http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Tapetum_lucidum

Maybe his father was a white cat ? It is genetically possible to get both black and white kittens from a white father and pointed (siamese) mother.

A gene for blue eyed albinos has been reported in cats too but it seems to be very rare. In most cases the simplest solution is the right one.

He's so cute! Can he hear? Many albino animals are deaf.

In some of the photos it looks like he may have light cream (cream is the dilute of red) "points"-- ears, tail, paws? If so he may be a pointed cat but just have very pale coloration on his extremities. How old is he? Pointed cats do tend to darken with age so if he does have cream points this may show up more as he gets older.

Is his mother a purebred/papered Siamese or a DSH with Siamese-type markings?

Here's an interesting article on pointed cats, it explains that the coloration is actually a type of partial albinism:

http://www.messybeast.com/colourpoints.htm

Here is an example of a cream pointed Ragdoll, you can see the points are very pale:

He kind of looks flamepoint to me? I'm not an expert when it comes to colors or breeds but from what i've seen online and on here- the pictures look like he may be a bit of a flamepoint

I agree, he looks like a very faint flame-point. He has blue eyes, so not an albino (he would then have red eyes). But he sure is gorgeous!

I still would say cream. Cream is the dilute of red meaning it is a very light red so to speak. Red point=flame point.

Mimosa said:

A gene for blue eyed albinos has been reported in cats too but it seems to be very rare. In most cases the simplest solution is the right one.

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Occamms Razor!

From my experience with mixed brewed Siamese babies, if he was "pointed" his colors should have come in. He looks 4 or 5 months old so I would just say he's the 'black' sheep on the family ^.~

Hehe your choroids are showing

Nekochan said:

I still would say cream. Cream is the dilute of red meaning it is a very light red so to speak. Red point=flame point.

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Agree cream not a red/flame point, if pointed at all. Otherwise just a blue eyed white cat.

Whatever he is, he is beautiful.  I love the picture with the bunny.  Do they play together.

My cats eyes are blue and sometimes they turn red ..... Yes he is white