I love Thunder's coloring. His head is beautiful. I kept trying (unsuccessfully so far) to get a "straight-on" shot of him looking right at me. His eyes are gorgeous when fully opened. The end of his nose area is reddish in color. When we brought him home in a pet kennel he continually banged his face straight-on against the wire door, yowling and thrashing about during the entire hour-long drive. He had quite the bloody nose when we finally let him out of it. Needless to say, he had all of us scared to get close to him once we turned him loose.