What Shade is Oliver?

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Hello everyone,

The cat distribution system heard me say that I wanted an orange kitty someday, and granted me Oliver this week.

He definitely isn't the average orange color that I have seen ginger cats to be. I did some googling and came across the term 'creamcicle'. At first I thought that was the color, but upon looking at tons of pictures, I just am not sure. There seems to be so many shaded being called cream, but some look the same as the average everyday orange tabby.

So I come to ask here. Is Oliver a cream tabby? Is he something else?(Excuse the messy hair, I just woke up and we are camping. 🤦‍♀️ )
 

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Def creme!

So cute!

One of Charlie's siblings had the same coloring, I wanted to take him home so badly too! Your new kitty is a cutie!!! Big congrats on the addition to your family
 

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Hello everyone,

The cat distribution system heard me say that I wanted an orange kitty someday, and granted me Oliver this week.

He definitely isn't the average orange color that I have seen ginger cats to be. I did some googling and came across the term 'creamcicle'. At first I thought that was the color, but upon looking at tons of pictures, I just am not sure. There seems to be so many shaded being called cream, but some look the same as the average everyday orange tabby.

So I come to ask here. Is Oliver a cream tabby? Is he something else?(Excuse the messy hair, I just woke up and we are camping. 🤦‍♀️ )
"Creamsicle" isn't a specific coloration; it's widely used for orange cats because ALL orange cats are orange and white. Oliver is definitely a cream tabby, and very adorable.
 
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Thank you all!

We are absolutely loving him. Even my husband, despite his reluctance to admit it, is pretty smitten with him.

He has so much personality and is such a goofball. ❤
 

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I have nothing new to offer (I agree he's a cream tabby) but oh my god he's so cute!! Once we get a house I'm hoping the Cat Distribution Center will send us an orange cat to round out our colony... but not til the move lol
 

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Hello everyone,

The cat distribution system heard me say that I wanted an orange kitty someday, and granted me Oliver this week.

He definitely isn't the average orange color that I have seen ginger cats to be. I did some googling and came across the term 'creamcicle'. At first I thought that was the color, but upon looking at tons of pictures, I just am not sure. There seems to be so many shaded being called cream, but some look the same as the average everyday orange tabby.

So I come to ask here. Is Oliver a cream tabby? Is he something else?(Excuse the messy hair, I just woke up and we are camping. 🤦‍♀️ )
What an angel 🤗 Oliver is def a creamsicle imo. And he looks like he has the ginger type personality too 😹

He would be called officially a dilute, red tabby tuxedo, and his pattern is mackerel. The dilute of red, which is often called ginger(red), it’s usually called cream or buff.

My cinnamon is also a cream cat. But in some lights in the photos, he looks like he has darker red/ ginger. Even within the cream and buff range you can have some cats that look a little more orange or a little darker than others.

Here is a pic of cinnamon who is a dilute, red classic tabby tuxedo.

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He nearly always looks a little darker in photos than he looks in real life. When you saw him next to my beloved Merlin , who was a non dilute red ginger, you could see a real difference, and Merlin was not even that dark for a ginger cat. He was kind of in the middle range.
By the way, cream colored cats are considered kind of rare in the domestic population here… I think I read that recently it was believed to be due in part to breeders in Britain who neutered a lot of the lighter color ginger BS cats because they wanted a darker ginger color. I will try to find info.
 
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