Thread: Changing colouring

Its really hard to get the colours right... when you register kittens say at 10 weeks they are covered in kitten fluff and its often quite tarnished from mum licking them clean. I've thought I've had red silver that have become cream silver shaded with age... at ten weeks two kittens in our last litter looked like they were blue cream (and white) but then from nowhere silver started to come through. The GCCF even like you to tell them if a Tabby is mack or classic, thats easy if they have a large enough area of tabby, but some torites have solid patches as well as tabby.

But a silver will not turn brown and vicsa versa; looking at the colour on thier ears helps of course not all browns have a warm beige background colour, some have a cold dirty grey look... the rule of thumb is that it is impossible for the mating of two browns to produce a silver kitten.

The Maine Coon Cat Club site has a gallery of MC colours which helps a bit.