Can you help me figure out my kittens breed?

Hello,
I'm a first time cat owner. I really need help figuring out what mixture of breeds my kitten may be. She is docile althought she hates lap and she is really curious about water. She gets along very well with other animals. I've never seen a cat looking like her. We adopted her when she was about 6 weeks old, she was on a guinea pig cage with other kittens, all full of fleas and crying, and we took her. She is 5 and a half months now, and weighs about 6.2 pounds.
Thanks you

She is a point, she is a tabby, her point color is black (tail and ears), and she is mediumhair.

What gives?  mediumhair, Lynx seal point

I presume the other kittens in that cage were her littermates, and they werent points?  This give immediately the parents werent points, they were "just" carriers of the point gene.   We know at least one of them was a tabby, and at least one had black on her.  Both almost surely domestics.

And so, your beutie, although all the whistles and fancy gears, is a domestic too.  

Ok, but what look alike?   I would look at the Neva Masquerade...  They tend to have even longer fur, but you cant get everything at one shot, cant you?  

Thank you

Acording to the store owner the mother was a long hair pure breed, he said she was a big long haired cat, that was used to breed, but that had an accident with a stray. But he didnt know the name of the breed. Meo (its her name) was with two brothers, one was all white and smaller than her, with same lenght hair, and the other bigger than her, with longer hair, and was black and white (those white cats with a black mask and a black moustach).

I tool her another photo, hope it helps

@meocat

Welcome to the site. Do you know the mother's breed?.

Thanks you for the reply ganesha0 !


No...no ideia. But in Portugal its kind of rare for someone to have a cat with a breed, we mostly adopt street cats. The only longhaired cats i have ever seen selling in a pet store (and i go to plenty as i love animals and have a lot of them) where persians or norwegian forest cats, so there is a bigger chance of being one of those. But she really doesnt seem like neither. I looked up that neva masquerade breed that StefanZ and yes, its really similar although her hair is shorter and her eyes are not so blue, they are a clear blue mixed with a little bit of green.

Well i know the has no breed, i would just like to try to know the mothers breed to see if theres hope for her ro become more caring because she never ever atacks me but she never seeks me for peting or stays in my lap. And altough she responds imediately to her name if theres food envolved, she sits, talks, jumps to where i ask her and stands (i trained her like i train my dogs — positive reinforcement), she totaly ignores me if there is no food.

I went to the store i adopted her from 3 days ago and the guy told me her mother was a maine coon, but he said this based on photos of the kitten. He said the lady that left them there said she was a pure breed and longhaired and the rest is just speculation. There are maybe 5 maine coon breeders in Portugal and yes, one is in Sintra, where i got her from, but, although i would love this to be true, i dont think she has the size (5month - 6 pounds) or the facial looks of that breed ( that is my favourite breed).

Thanks

I didnt hanged on really when you wrote about the siblings - WERE they points all of them, or just your darling, or...   Telling their colors dont helps me much...

A point will have the pointed parts darker - the tail, the ears, often paws if he doesnt carry white socks, and usually a masque on the face - although if tabby, the masque not always visible because of the tabby markings - the tabby markigns being the masque -  "he didnt saw the wood, because all the trees did hidden it"  as the swedish proverb says...

Anyways, pruebred maine coon usually dont carry point.  But some persians do.

And thus,  a maine coon whom was born point, wouldnt never be used in breeding, unless the owner wished to create a new variation.

Both parents must have been carriers of the point gene.   If ALL kittens were points, so both parents must have been points...

Re mommas behavior -  I dont think you shall look too much on the breed.  Some cats arent that very friendly or liking to lie on knees.  A tip is many cats dont like to be cuddled on the floor, its often easier to cuddle them when they are laying comfortably on a sofa or a chair...

Many of the non knee cats, prefer to lay with you or even on you, while you are laying down in the bed.   Or are sitting somewhere nearby you during the day.  This too must be an allowed alternative, to show affection.

StefanZ thank you.

No, no points. She lays next to me. I'll just love for her to headbut me or at least look at me when e talk to her. Maybe when she is older...thank you

meocat said:

@StefanZ thank you.

No, no points.

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Ok, if she was the only point in the litter, both parents were carriers of the point gene, none of them is a point for real.   At least one of them is a tabby because she is.

True, many kittens arent very much for cuddles, it usually becomes more of it when they get adult.

ps. The hereditary for long (and medium) fur is essentially the same as for points.

If all the kittens are longhaired, both parents must be longhaired.

If half of them; one parent longhaired, one shorthaired carrier.

If just one is longhaired, none of the parents was longhaired, but both carriers.