meet Sebring.... who knows what she is..

Originally Posted by Mopar92

The pic above was when I first captured her from the farm and took her to a motel room the night before we flew home..

Another test pic.. this is her right at 22 lbs this July.

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I'm no expert, but a couple of things came to mind. First of all she appears to have spots, not stripes that are typically tabby. Then her muzzle is squared off. I don't know what that means, but it's different than most domestic cats.

However, in the human species, there is occasionally a "giant" of unusual size of over 8 feet, usually because of a pituitary growth or tumor. Could this be the case with cats too?

No matter what she is, she is beautiful and very special! I'd like to see some input from Breeder's Corner too.

I started to post it over there... thanks.

What a beautiful girl!!! A female cat weighing 22 pounds is huge! Could she be a Savannah cat? I just got a email from the Savannah rescue group that rescued a Savannah in California living off the streets.

Here's an old pic, about 1 year to date. I had just snagged her that day and she was pretty hunckered down but it shows her color and spot detail fairly good... These old pics of her make me a little sad, she was SO skinny, ribs sticking out etc. She's well fed, loved, and excercised and played with here though..

Well she has the Tabby M on her forehead. Sometimes mackerel tabby stripes separate into spots, that's where the name comes from, but I have to agree those are spots are pretty distinctive. I have to go back and look at the pics, I think in one shot her spots were more like stripes?

<edit> looking back I see she has some true stripes up around her shoulders. She's fantastic!

Whatever combination made her, she is breathtaking. Does she have a gentle temperament? She looks it.

Originally Posted by Mopar92

Last one for a little while, I snapped one of her upside down so you can see her underside color and marks. Guys, thanks for the help on this mystery gal. Seeya

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Oh My Gosh, just look at that Yummy Tummy! She looks soooooo sweet!

Mopar you are a lucky hoomin'! Well. luck has less to do with it than your compassionate heart. What a rescue coup!

She does not like to play with strings and feather/stick toys. It scares her. She does love to play with her mouse toys and small stuffed dog toys. She can flip them 4-5' in the air. She has become a lap cat and often wants to touch you when she is beside you. She never meows though . She purrs pretty good now. She runs a whole lot. Her rear leg looksa little funny at the top and xrays later revealed he left rear is out of joint and the vet said it can't be put in without a hip replaced. She does not limp, and amazingly, it's not too tender to her. Her name is Sebring because I got her from the town in Sebring Florida. Personally, I think she's a hurricane kitty. You know, ones that escaped when they got hammered 2-3 years ago. The vet said she is about 2-3 years old. She does everything the other cats do,kneeds, purrs, etc. She's letting me pick her up and kiss her, and put her back down. She's gettin' there.

Ok.... enough here... I'm starting to sound like the annoying parent who's little angel never does wrong.... too braggy!! She's in attack mode... watch out stuffed mouse!!

You just keep on braggin!...I can't get enough of her. She's so wonderful, and thinking of her story...I can't look at her without getting teary eyed! (in a happy way )

She is a beautiful girl! Love the tummy pic.
I had a male DSH that was 22 lbs at his biggest. He was huge, but the biggest lovebug ever. His paw would cover the palm of my hand, his back came up to my knees, and his head was bigger than a softball. The vet said he probably had some Maine Coon in him, but I suspect maybe he was trying to make him more desirable as a keeper. He was shaped much differently from your girl, though.

Hmmm she does have sort of a "wild" look about the face in this side photo...but in the photos where you see her face from the front she just looks like a DSH!

Originally Posted by Mopar92

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She is spotted but you can get spotted tabbies in the domestic population. My cat Church has spots too, he's a feral rescue DSH:

Wow, that's a mighty big kitty!

I'd say a very large DSH, but the jaw is very square. I would have said it was a male who got neutered late if I didn't know otherwise (they often have big heads/jaws).

Doe she crush your chest when she lies on you?

She's a gorgeous girl though - feel free to brag away!

No doubt, she's got a big jaw... you can see those little 1" fangs lurking if you look close... she's not a biter though... sure make me careful though....

Ok I own Ocicats. Oci's are smaller then Bengals. A friend of mine has a Bengal male (breeder) who is pushing 20 lbs and he is huge - not fat. Oci's in the US don't get more then about 12 or 13 lbs (maybe 14) at the most. Australian Oci's can get a little larger but not much more full grown.

I would guess he's got Bengal in the background mixed with domestic shorthair. The head doesn't resemble EITHER a Bengal or an Ocicat. There there is a chance this girl could have Maine Coon in her too (even tho she is shorthair). Coons will go an easy 18+ lbs for a full grown adult male.

I think she's a DSH - possibly with other breeds behind her, possibly not.

She may just be a female with some male hormones - I've seen it happen.

Tasha has all the same stripy-stops, wild look & wide jaw and she`s 100% Domestic Shorthair . She`s also quite a bit larger then our other two cats & we thought she was going to be the smallest.

Maybe your gal is just more evolved then mine .

Originally Posted by Mopar92

Ok.... enough here... I'm starting to sound like the annoying parent who's little angel

never does wrong.... too braggy!! She's in attack mode... watch out stuffed mouse!!

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She is absolutely gorgeous!!!! Big and beautiful!

She is beautiful. She looks a lot like one of the neighborhood cats that hangs out in our yard. This cat has little tuffs of hair on his/her ears and it gives the cat a wild look. But it is a big cat and walked by my window once carrying half a snake that was still moving.

That is a cute cat!

I think her markings aren't typical tabby spots.. They just look different to me. Now that you mentioned she was x-rayed, do you happen to have an x-ray photo of her back/tail? I've been told by a Bengal breeder that Bengals usually have one 'extra' vertebra which they have inherited from the Asian Leopard Cats..is this true?