What Shade is Oliver?

[FlashOfHope]

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. )

 

[susanm9006]

I would consider him a dilute orange tabby.

 

[vampiric_conure]

I have no idea what his color is. Just wanted to jump in and say he's beautiful . Can't wait to see what everyone is going to say about his color!

 

[StefanZ]

I agree, he is a diluted orange tabby, or with other words, a creme tabby.

 

[Krienze]

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

 

[Margot Lane]

that pic of him eating his foot is priceless.

 

[tarasgirl06]

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.

 

[FlashOfHope]

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.

 

[susanm9006]

Just adorable.

 

[xenonentity]

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

 

[Caspers Human]

He's an Orange Creamsicle!

 

[Meowmee]

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.

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.