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I took the liberty of posting this after the understandable confusion about what I meant about blue. These are what I am talking about if I say Blue, or Red. Or Chocolate, or seal point.
CFA Colors->http://www.cfa.org/articles/hints-color.html
These are the CFA color standards, mainly what I go off of along with TICAs standards.
SOLID COLOR
WHITE - Some kittens are born with a smudge of black or blue hairs on top of the head. The spot disappears as the adult coat start to grow in around 9 months.
BLACK - Kittens are born black, but often develop rusty or coppery coats, white or silver hairs, or a lighter ruff and/or undercoat until full adult coat appears at 12-18 months.
BLUE - May have tabby markings when a kitten, but usually those disappear as the adult coat develops.
RED - Kittens are usually born with tabby markings which may or may not disappear with the adult coat. There is actually no such thing as a pure red cat. All red cats are red tabby with tabby markings either very obvious (tabby) or very faint (red).
CREAM - Kittens are often born with faint tabby markings which usually disappear with the adult coat at about 9 months.
SOLID COLOR OR SMOKE? - A young non-smoke cat has a kitten coat that is often a lot lighter than the base color of the cat. The cat can look like a smoke, but because neither parent cat has a white undercoat, the kitten cannot be a smok e. The kitten coat will darken as the cat gets older.
SHADED AND SMOKE COLORS
SHADED COLORS
Shaded Cameo/Shell Cameo - Kittens born white with tipping gradually appearing.
Shaded Silver/Chinchilla Silver - Kittens born with dark markings and/or tabby markings - particularly on the tail, which disappear by 4-6 weeks. A chinchilla silver may be so light that it looks like a white cat, but because neither parent is white, the kitten cannot be a white. Green eye color on a white cat with silver parentage is a good sign that the cat is a chinchilla silver, not a white.
Shaded Tortie/Shell Tortie - The cat may look like a shaded silver or a chinchilla silver, but will have just a small patch, or even just a few hairs, of cream and/or red, or will have mottled black and cream paw pads. Those small differences will make the cat a shaded tortie or shell tortie, not a shaded silver or chinchilla silver.
SMOKE?
Smoke - Often difficult to tell from solid color kittens except that smokes sometimes have white around the eyes and a paler stomach. May take some months to tell which kittens will be smoke because the full coat color is sometimes not seen until the adult coat comes in at 2 years. Undercoat begins to show at 3 weeks, and by 6-8 weeks have a mottled look.
SMOKE OR SHADED?
• 1/8 of hair length colored at tip - chinchilla and shell
• 1/4 of hair length colored at tip - all shaded
• 1/2 of hair length colored at tip - all smoke
TABBY COLORS
Tabby - Markings will show even at birth. Often the darker the stripes at birth, the clearer the adult pattern will be.
Tabby or Patched Tabby? - If a cat has patches of red and/or cream or has two different colors on its nose leather and/or paw pads, the cat is probably a patched tabby (silver, blue or brown).
PARTICOLOR COLORS
Blue-Cream or Blue? - Kittens with the palest coat often develop into the best blue-cream adults. Often the kitten will look much like a pale blue in the first few weeks. Even a small patch of cream, or just a few hairs of cream, or if the paw pads are mottled blue and cream, will make the cat a blue-cream, not a blue.
Tortoiseshell or Black? - Even just a small patch of red and/or cream on the cat, or if the cat has mottled black and cream paw pads, will make the cat a tortoiseshsell, not a black.
POINTED COLORS
Kittens are born creamy white with pink paw pads, noses and ears. Point color gradually develops over the first few weeks. In seal point and blue point, a blob of color first appears on the nose after 10 days, but it may be 3 months before chocolate and lilac points become apparent. Colors may not be fully developed until 1 year.
Blue Point or Lilac Point? - Check the nose leather and paw pads. A blue point has slate gray, a lilac point has lavender pink.
Seal Point or Chocolate Point? - Check the nose leather and paw pads. A chocolate point has cinnamon pink, the seal point has sealbrown.
Seal Point or Tortie Point? - Check the nose leather and paw pads. If they are mottled seal brown and flesh/pink, the cat is a tortie point, not a seal point.
Blue Point or Bluecream Point? - Check the paw pads and nose leather. If the color is a mottled blue and pink, the cat is a bluecream point, not a blue point.
Flame Point or Cream Point? - These colors can be very close. There are hot creams and light reds. If both parent cats are definitely dilutes (blue, cream or bluecream), the offspring cannot be a flame point.
Otherwise
For TICA Colors you can visit this website->
http://www.seregiontica.org/Colors/intro.htm
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