I wonder how many people can actually imagine what their kitten will look like when it grows up. Some colors are easy to imagine – like for instance seal bi-color or seal mitted, but some colors, like lilacs and creams, take over 3 years to show up!

Some people ask WHY they do not look like they should when they are young? Well, because color pointed gene takes 3-4 years to get to the actual color. So your kitten will change, getting darker and darker, untill it reaches its full color at age 3-4 years old. Some however darken faster and some slower, we had one cat which darkened up at age 9 years all of a sudden.

Today we got an email from Cajun’s owners – he was one of the red kittens in Baileyboo to Rumble breeding. He went to his new home looking pink. We are posting some comparisons here on our web site.

This is Cajun at around 8 weeks

And this is Cajun at almost 7 month (courtesy of his owners)

 

Even harder to judge on lilacs – this is picture of Creamsicle at 8 weeks – she is lilac mitted tortie

And this is Creamy at 6 month

 

Of course, it is MUCH easier to see how your seal mitted will look like – compare Bentley at baby age to his grown up image

This is Beltley at 4 month and he is seal mitted boy

This is Bentley at almost over a year of age

Now, do you beleive that ALL kittens change  their color as they grow up???