A blue cream colored cat is a dilute tortoiseshell cat (dilute tortie). The blue-cream colour is the dilute form of the tortoiseshell pattern. The blue replaces the black and the cream replaces the red color. The recessive dilute gene (dd) softens the colors.
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The book, Robinson’s genetics, says that this coat pattern differs slightly between America and Britain.
“In Britain, the colors of the blue-cream should be softly intermingled whereas in the USA preference is given to those cats with segregated patches of blue and cream.”
Variants of blue-cream colored cats
There are variants, namely: (1) Blue-Cream Shaded (2) Blue-Cream Smoke (3) Blue-Cream and White (4) Blue-Cream Point (5) Blue-Cream Lynx Point (6) Parti-Color Blue-Cream (7) Van Blue-Cream and White.
A former neighbor of mine owned a blue cream colored cat, Dana. There was a tortoiseshell wild cat! And dilute calicos are similar.
This is my tortie Artemis ! I am guessing that she may blue cream?
I agree with you and she has a very unusual coat. And I’ve seen millions (!) of cat coats. Thanks Caitlin. Take care.
I have had 2 Blue cream kitties. The first was born in a litter of my orange/white cat. She had 2 orange tabby’s, one buff/cream color first. Then the 2 Torties, a blue cream/white, and a black/orange/white. Blues are always very lovable. I had her 15yrs. The 2nd one was a kitten abandoned behind my work place when the Mom was frightened by a worker using a jack hammer. I was told she had removed 3 others but was afraid to return.
She had no white but a blaze of cream across her forehead, & patches on her legs. A vet said she was 3wks. old. We bottle fed her and it was wonderful watching her grow. Then I had her for 15 yrs! I had a Tortie before them, Actually two! They were not blues. One was a European Tortie Burmese. She was a little runt of a litter & liked riding on my shoulder. She left me at age 17. The other, I bought in a pet store for $10.& had her for 19yrs. Torties are amazing! I hope I can have one again.
Regards, Pauline
Kitten was a blue cream.
Super looking cat.
I’m glad there’s a special name for such a beautiful coloring. My very special baby was a blue cream. Thank you for brightening my day. 😊
Pleased that your special baby was blue-cream.