Siamese or Domestic Medium Hair? I Don't Know...

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2 weeks ago, I adopted my little kitten Inari from a private rescuer. She takes in cats and kittens off streets. Makes them tame and adopts them out to families that call her, asking for a cat or kitten. Ok, so I can't tell the breed of my kitten. I know that her mother is a black DMH, but I have no idea about the father. 2 of her brothers look just like her, while she has another brother and a sister that are black DMH. On her spay and vaccination paper, it says Steel point Domestic Medium Haired, but the adopter says Siamese. So, I can not sure what breed she is. Also, Inari looks like a chocolate point to me.
 

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2 weeks ago, I adopted my little kitten Inari from a private rescuer. She takes in cats and kittens off streets. Makes them tame and adopts them out to families that call her, asking for a cat or kitten. Ok, so I can't tell the breed of my kitten. I know that her mother is a black DMH, but I have no idea about the father. 2 of her brothers look just like her, while she has another brother and a sister that are black DMH. On her spay and vaccination paper, it says Steel point Domestic Medium Haired, but the adopter says Siamese. So, I can not sure what breed she is. Also, Inari looks like a chocolate point to me.
Awwww what a cutie! [emoji]128571[/emoji][emoji]128568[/emoji]

The pointed pattern is the pattern people associate with siamese cats (people often think regular domestic pointed cats are siamese cats but this is not true). But just because she is a point does not mean she is a Siamese. Since she did not come from a purebred litter, she is definitely not a Siamese. But rather a Domestic Medium haired cat with the pointed pattern. Very pretty though [emoji]128571[/emoji]


Fun fact: all cats that have the point pattern have blue eyes, this is due to the fact that all points actually have a modified form of albinism :) . Also, the point coloration is temperature-dependent, meaning all the warm areas on the body remain a cream/tan color while all the cold spots (face, ears, paws and tail) turn dark over time. And all pointed cats are born white and develop their points later.
 
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Thanks for replying!

I figured she wasn't a Siamese do to her parentage, but had to ask. I joked with my mom, if she wasn't spayed and bred with a Siamese, what would her babies look like. She is spayed though.

Thanks for the fun fact. I had no idea. That's really cool.
 

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2 weeks ago, I adopted my little kitten Inari from a private rescuer. She takes in cats and kittens off streets. Makes them tame and adopts them out to families that call her, asking for a cat or kitten. Ok, so I can't tell the breed of my kitten. I know that her mother is a black DMH, but I have no idea about the father. 2 of her brothers look just like her, while she has another brother and a sister that are black DMH. On her spay and vaccination paper, it says Steel point Domestic Medium Haired, but the adopter says Siamese. So, I can not sure what breed she is. Also, Inari looks like a chocolate point to me.
It was probably  Seal...  which means black in Cat fanciers language.  Which is probable as momma is black.

Ok, so daddy was a point (this siamese-look-alike) and momma the blackie she is a carrier of the point gene, but herself not a point... This gives exactly the result: half of each in the litter...  The medium / longhair gene behaves similiarly, so  if one or two of them are longhaired, both parents were shorthaired, if half - one longhair, one shorthair carrier...  If both parents are longhaired, all kittens will be longhaired.

So to your question: if you mate your point with another point, all kittens would become points.

You may perhaps compare your sweetie to a Balinese, ie a mediumhaired siamese.   The balineses tend to remind of siameses old type, ie dont have the muzzles as prolonged as modern siameses have.

Please give my salute to this private rescuer you tell about.  She is one of the true heroes of our time.   Of course, they buying / adopting these saved, as you did, they do also a share in the rescue work.
 
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