Ear Tufts On DSH Cats?

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It was difficult to get a picture that showed them well due to the coloring.


We lost him last Feb., he was 17 1/2 years old.  He was a big guy, 22 pounds, he had a long happy life and was a good matured cat.
 

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My Katie has small tufts.  Her and her brother were identical twins when they were kittens. Even after they were spayed and neutered I couldn't tell them apart because he had a hernia repair so he also had an abdominal incision!  LOL  The only way I could tell was that she was slightly darker, and had small ear tufts.
 

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We lost him last Feb., he was 17 1/2 years old.  He was a big guy, 22 pounds, he had a long happy life and was a good matured cat.
Thank you for the pic, he was a handsome fellow with those green eyes in that tiger face. I can see his tufts quite well on that pic, particularly his left ear against the window frame. His face is not that of a Maine Coon, but who knows. My Panthera is now at 19 pounds and he is not fat although he does have that pouch that so many cats develop with maturity. His ear tufts did not show up until about a year ago or at least I had never noticed them before. He is now 8 years old and I have had him for 4 years. He was a found cat with an out-of-date microchip so his previous people could not be found..
 

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I am a first hand witness to the fact that bobcats and domestic cats do mate.  I had a friend in Virginia who had a full blood female bobcat who had 6 kittens with a domestic long haired male cat.  I had one of the kittens and gave it to my mom.  The momma bobcat used to slap her kittens and roll them across the room.  Her way of playing I guess.  But she was absolutely a full blooded bobcat.
 

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I had a feral colony with 22 cats and every one of them had ear tufts. I adopted a family of 8 of them and brought them inside and they were almost all orange kitties. I have no idea what breed they were but I always wondered about the ear tufts. I heard what I thought was a bob cat  about 3:00 in the morning. The ferals could have mated with him.
 

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Apologies. It wasn't my intention to make this topic go elsewhere.
 

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Just to let you know that I have just adopted a red Maine Coon who has as much hair as a Persian  with lots of tufts IN his ears but none at his ear tips whatsoever. My black dsh has longer ear tip tufts than this Maine Coon. At least I know that ear tip tufts are NOT a requirement for Maine Coons.
 

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I have a short hair black male with beautiful glossy coat and ear tufts. He is a real beauty and he looks so wild. No clue on his lineage, we got him and his Tourtie sister (no tufts) from the local humane society in April. I adore his ear tufts, and his glossy coat is beyond beautiful.
 

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My Basil has beautiful ear tufts. I think it makes him extra special. He’s a large cat man at almost 16 pounds. Someone had abandoned him and he lived behind my building then moved in with me 4 years ago. I had animals before but he is much smarter and more articulate. I became vegetarian than vegan because of him,
 

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I love seeing all these mini lynxes! :heartshape:
 

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Marx has a bit going on in that department, hard to get a good picture of them though

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*Officially he's a DSH since he lacks the papers to prove his heritage, so I'm just gonna use this opportunity to share more pics of him :D*
 
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