Merry Christmas! We all ate too much for Thanksgiving and we had lot of fun with our family. These new chips will help you to find that your new Kittentanz kitten is “The Best Cat Ever!” We are so glad that we can offer these chips to every Kittentanz kitten and we hope that the new temp chips will be a help for our customers too!

We have just received our new scanner, and the $70 chips are on the way! Each chip has paperwork, tag for collar, card for you to keep the number, and extra stickers to place in your kitten’s records! Have questions? Call them anytime at 1-86 HomeAgain Companion Animal Recovery is available with live agents 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Kittentanz plans to register each chip so that animal control, vets, or shelters can find contact information. No more rectal probes!ġ in 3 pets go missing during their lifetime, and 2 out of 3 missing kitties is an inside only cat! Every month, HomeAgain reunites 10,000 pets with their families. Finding out as much information as you can about the parent breeds will also help you predict their coat more accurately.We are really excited to tell you that Kittentanz has just ordered HomeAgain TempScan microchip system because HomeAgain chips have patented Bio-Bond to keep the chip in place for easy scanning and TempScan is the only microchip to scan your pet’s body temperature. However, after this point, they will begin to show a few signs that will make it easier to predict whether they’ll be short or long-haired - namely, a fluffy tail, ear tufts, and tufts of hair between the toes. Most kittens look the same up to around 8 weeks, and it can be difficult to tell what their coat length will be. Image Credit: Ashley Swanson, Shutterstock Final Thoughts This way, they will all have the signs of whether they’ll be long or short-haired. If possible, it’s best to wait till a kitten is around 10-12 weeks before adopting them. Kittens with smooth and shiny hair as opposed to fluffy, thick hair will most likely be short-haired. If your cat has these patterns and the aforementioned traits, they are likely to have long hair.

Long-haired cats commonly have smokey, swirling, or tortoiseshell patterns in their fur, though this is not always the case. These may be slight in the beginning, but such traits are absent in short-haired cats, so with these signs, you can be sure you’ll have a long-haired or at least a medium-haired adult cat.Īnother physical trait to look for is the appearance of any markings. If your cat is going to have long hair, you should notice the tail beginning to get fluffy, and they’ll start showing signs of ear tufts and tufts of fur around their paws. Kittens will usually start exhibiting tell-tale traits at around 8 weeks old that will indicate the likelihood of their coat being long or short. If you wanted to, you could take the kitten to be tested by a vet to check whether any of these genes are present. Try to get information about both parent breeds, as this is likely to give you a good indication of what to expect.įour genetic mutations produce long-haired cats, three of which are fairly breed-specific, while the fourth can be found in all long-haired breeds and mixed breeds. If the mother is a mixed breed, there are likely to be more variations, and it can be far more difficult to predict, especially if the father is not known. Some may have a medium-length coat and others a short-haired coat, but the genetics of the mother will definitely cause long or medium-length hair in most of the kittens, especially if she is a purebred, long-haired cat like a Persian. If the kitten’s mother is long-haired, chances are high that some of her kittens will be long-haired too, even when fathered by a short-haired male. The simplest method of determining whether your cat will have a long or short coat is by their genetics. There are a few ways to determine with relative accuracy what coat your kitten will have. So, how can you tell if your kitten will be short or long-haired? You will typically have to wait until about 8 weeks before differences begin to show. To make matters more confusing, the vast majority of kittens will have soft and fluffy coats when they are young, regardless of their breed. In this case, even if the mother is long-haired, there is no guarantee that her kittens will be the same, as the father’s genetics play a part too. Often, the shelter may know the mother but the father may be a mystery. If you have brought home a kitten from a rescue shelter, it can be difficult to determine the kitten’s exact lineage, and you may be wondering whether it will be long-haired or short-haired.

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