Kitten... What Is He? Ideas?? Help

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Hi! I recently got the cutest little kitten and I’m trying to find out more about him if anyone could give me any ideas!! ❤ I know he is not purebred, but I would love to know what breeds may be in him. I was told he was 9 weeks when I got him and that he was siamese. My vet said he was definetly not 9 weeks... and did not appear to be siamese either. So from best guess we have him age marked at 10weeks today. He had very blue eyes when I got him, 4 weeks ago, but they are still changing as of today! They are still going more greenish like a mint? He is medium fur and has a black tail with his cream spots. Any ideas please?? He’s rather unique looking and also does anybody know when his eyes will stop changing?? I have read it was 8 weeks, but .... ???? Thank you so much for any help ❤
 

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the kitten is a point of some sort. So you can defintiely call it for a siamese-mix if you wish. Even if the siamese ancestors may be 50 years backwards.

Next question, is if you are sure its a he? Why asking? For me it looks as its a torbie- tabby + tortie (and point). And almost all torties / torbies are female.
it has also some white,

Also, torbies are often difficult to analyse, so its by itself a give away: difficult to analyse? Probably a torbie!

So my proposal so far will be diluted torbie point with white. May be also called for diluted patched tabby point, or diluted caliby point...

Very sweet kitten, whichever label we put on it. :)
 
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the kitten is a point of some sort. So you can defintiely call it for a siamese-mix if you wish. Even if the siamese ancestors may be 50 years backwards.

Next question, is if you are sure its a he? Why asking? For me it looks as its a torbie- tabby + tortie (and point). And almost all torties / torbies are female.
it has also some white,

Also, torbies are often difficult to analyse, so its by itself a give away: difficult to analyse? Probably a torbie!

So my proposal so far will be diluted torbie point with white. May be also called for diluted patched tabby point, or diluted caliby point...

Very sweet kitten, whichever label we put on it. :)

Hi!! Oh he is definetly a he! that much im sure of but also because of being shocked of his age change at the vet, I did remember asking him too ...

Does that change your guess then on the 2nd half of the mix? ❤
 

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I would describe him as a seal lynx point and white domestic shorthair. He is very cute!

Your kitten does not appear to be a "mix" of breeds. He appears to be a domestic shorthair. The colorpoint gene entered the domestic cat gene pool many years ago from the Siamese breed, but it has been so many years that at this point the gene is very widely distributed through the gene pool and doesn't indicate that a cat has any significant Siamese ancestry. Most cats are not any particular breed.

I don't see any torbie patches on this kitten. Sometimes a lynx point can look that way because the stripes on the points are darker than stripes on the other parts of the cat.
 

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So my proposal so far will be diluted torbie point with white. May be also called for diluted patched tabby point, or diluted caliby point...
Since the kitten has a black tail he cannot be any kind of dilute. Dilutes cannot have any black areas. Tail tip is a good place to check color on a pointed cat.
 

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Since the kitten has a black tail he cannot be any kind of dilute. Dilutes cannot have any black areas. Tail tip is a good place to check color on a pointed cat.
Useful tip, but I simply dont see any tail, much less a black tipped tail...
So I had to try and decide the coloration by looking on the face and head.

Good you can confirm the rosy parts on the head aint true rosy nor creme, its part of being a tabby.
So it will explain why a seemingly torbie is a boy: easy, he isnt no real torbie, he is just a nice tabby... :)
 

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Wow, you really lucked out with this guy, he is a cutie. I would say he is a rag-doll, Siamese mix.
 
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