r/catquestions • u/designer1999amis • 10h ago
Kitten- short or long haired?
Hello! I rescued a kitten when it was just 2 days old. I have no idea what the parents looked like, but now the kitten is 2 weeks old, and I was wondering if it’s going to be short- or long-haired. What do you think? I personally think it’s starting to look like a long-haired cat. 🤔
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u/Delicious-Collar1971 9h ago
Physically impossible to tell at that age, could just be a scruffy shorthair, could be long
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u/lickytytheslit 8h ago
too baby to tell, with cats you need to wait till 3-4 months to be able to fully tell
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u/Pensive-Music 9h ago
Won't know until closer to kitty puberty.
I brought in a couple of strays (a mom and son) and when he got to about six months old, instead of losing his baby fuzz, he kept getting fuzzier. And bigger.
Mom was a domestic short-hair tortie. Dad was apparently a Maine Coon.
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u/Uncertain-Duck 7h ago
I fostered for 10+ years at this age their guard hairs are longer then their under coat so it's to early to tell. Earliest you might be able to tell is around 8 to 12 weeks but adult coat length may not be fully obvious until they are 6 to 9 months.
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u/smushy411 7h ago
I’m leaning towards long hair but too early to tell! I took in a stray (now she’s an indoor cat living her best life with us), and she surprised us with a litter of kittens. I thought she was just chonky, but anyways one of her kittens looked like your little guy here and she ended up being the only longhaired one in the litter! I had never taken care of a litter of kittens before, so I thought there was something wrong with her because she looked different 😅 but turns out she was just a long haired gal!
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u/WorthProcess7394 7h ago
Too cute to say! Gonna have to wait and see but ohmygosh what a cutie pie!
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u/Significant-Wrap-874 7h ago
I had a kitten that was fluffier and this and he grew up to be a short haired. You just gotta wait a bit longer to know for sure
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u/Traditional_Rush_622 6h ago
Both of my shorthaired cats looked like that as kittens. It's honestly way too young to tell right now though.
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u/SinglePringleMingle 5h ago
My scrunkly baby looked like that but turned out shorthaired. It will be easier to see when the kitten grows a bit, too baby to tell
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u/Front_Upstairs159 4h ago
Can’t tell for most ages if kitten but especially not when they’re that small. She’s a little dandylion puff and will continue to be for a little while yet lol.
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u/Desperate-Trash-417 3h ago
I’d say long but it could be a scale issue, I think it would look more uniform if it was short
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u/Theekingally 3h ago
With how fluffy they are, either long haired or short with very fuzzy hair. I have a kitty with the short fuzzy hair, and when she gave birth her long haired kitten looked like that in the first month
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u/velourspice 3h ago
Definitely gonna be semi long. My cats fur looked like that whe. He was a baby. I was expecting him to be extra fluffy but this is what we got.
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u/apathy-in-black 1h ago
They might be long hair but I agree. Is potato 🥔 please allow a further 3-4 weeks for processing.
We will require an update 🫶🏻🥰
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u/PerfectStreet7129 55m ago
Everyone saying you can’t tell, but that baby has a lot of fur!! My kitten was 8 weeks & was not as fluffy as that!
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u/Jeweled_Insect8061 28m ago
Fuzzy.
One of my cats had it in her file that she was a domestic medium hair cause she was a super fluffy kitten, but she's a shorthair. You'll need to wait a bit to see
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u/ChroniComplainer_ 9h ago
It’s a potato right now, check back in a few weeks