What Breed is My Cat?

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They don't have the ear tufts a MC has. And the ear hairs would be longer. No matter what they are, you have two beautiful fruffy little kitties.

And welcome to TCS.
 

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 Originally Posted by Pandaeyes  

I got these two cuties from the local pound, we've guessed at what they could have in them or at lest what breads they look like, ( The Maine coon, Norwegian forest cat or the Somali cat)
Hi.

Your cats have the Maine Coon fur type, therefore they may have the Maine Coon breed somewhere in their background.

There is a possibility that they may be, or have in their background, a Siberian cat.

They are more so on the side of a Maine Coon, before a Somali cat or a Norwegian forest cat because of their fur color and the way their fur lays. Their fur colors resemble that of a Maine Coon's colorings of Brown Classic Tabby or Brown Tabby and White, or the Siberian cat's brown spotted and white coloring of patterns.

Hope that gives a little bit of an idea of what they may be. But they are cute cats, one way or another!
 

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This seems fun. So I'll do one or two pictures if that is ok? First picture is one I know her breed. 1 don't let the grey hair fool you on top of her head. For that breed very rarely come with many different colors in one cat. But the classic look is pure white with two , different color eyes. Very loving and shades it hair less then most. Kings were known to have this breed too. I probby give it away already though
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He has fantastic looks, and it would be nice to give him some fancy label of a breed. But I myself dont see any clear cut look alike, and anyway, technically without papers or other proofs of ancestry, he is a domestic short hair, as Catspaw66 says.

If he is friendly and enjoys attention from people, you could of course participate in Shows, in the HOusehold Pet class.  His looks would give him plus points there. 

Calico + tabby as Catspaw mentions is tortoiseshell and white + tabby,  so we have essentially the same description, although our descriptions  come from different associations.

The question is possibly if he is diluted...   I dont dare to say anything too exact with my  so so monitor.
soo is a torbie a breed or coloration we looked up a few breeds she looks like some one said she could be a lynx-point or a bengal manx could that be possible?
 

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soo is a torbie a breed or coloration we looked up a few breeds she looks like some one said she could be a lynx-point or a bengal manx could that be possible?
Torbie is an informal name for a calico that has stripes like a tabby. It is not a breed.   Bengal and Manx are breeds, and have strict guidelines. Any cat without pedigree papers from a reputable breeder is a Domestic Short/Long hair.
 

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Now THAT looks like a lynx (or tabby) point Siamese. What a beautiful cat he is. My Psy
looked like that, but she was lighter colored. If she went out during the winter, she almost got that dark.

Welcome to TCS. Thanks for posting the pictures.
 

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I have one almost a year old. Looks like a siamese but of course no papers. He was abandoned. My other little one is a street black and white about 3 months old and they love each other to pieces.
 

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soo is a torbie a breed or coloration we looked up a few breeds she looks like some one said she could be a lynx-point or a bengal manx could that be possible?
Torbie is a coloration.   Lynx point is btw also a coloration, a tabby + point.

You being there see better than me on my so so monitor. If you do see any traces of a "masque" , darker paws, ears, and tail, combined with this tabby M on the forehead - yes she may be a tabby point, or lynx point

What a "bengal manx" would be I dont have any idea.   Otherwise bengal is a breed and manx is also a breed.  different looks from each other, manx usually with short tail.

So yours is a domestic "moggie".   As it is the ancestry which is most important for determing a breed, who your parents are, so to speak.

I agree with you it could be a great fun to compare with different breeds and see if she is a look alike.   :)
 
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What a "bengal manx" would be I dont have any idea. Otherwise bengal is a breed and manx is also a breed. different looks from each other, manx usually with short tail.
I dunno either, but two possibilities spring to mind--a Bengal/Manx mix, or a Bengal/Bengal lookalike with a short tail. After all, it's entirely possible for a cat to just randomly be born with a stubby tail, or even no tail, without being a Manx. And very occasionally, a kitten will lose its tail very early on (perhaps because a scared young queen over-groomed and bit it, or someone stepped on it and it had to be amputated, etc.), so that once the cat is grown it's impossible to tell whether the cat had always been missing its tail. Random mutations can cause a cat to be born without a tail. Sometimes if the umbilical cord wraps around a limb before birth, the kitten is born without that paw, or without its tail, because the blood couldn't get to the end of the limb and so it simply didn't develop. At least that's one guess as to why healthy kittens are occasionally born missing a paw.

I have no idea what a Bengal and Manx cross would look like. The Manx has those nice long back legs, and the Bengal the distinctive fur; you could get any combination. The kitten could have a short tail, or no tail, because the Manx taillessness gene is dominant (a cat only needs one tailless gene to be born without a tail; in fact, kittens with two tailless genes are never born because they are non-viable and reabsorbed by the mother early in the pregnancy). You could end up with a rather unusual-looking cat, or one that had striking features from one or both breeds, or one that looked quite ordinary; who knows? It'd be a cat, and thus a lovely creature; but that's all I can guess at!
 

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This thread has gotten extremely long and and confusing. Sometimes it's hard to tell which post a reply is related to, and some posts are going without any replies. Therefore this thread is now closed. If you have questions about your cat's color, pattern, or breed lookalike, please start your own thread.

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