I agree... and we also got our snowshoe cat at a local shelter so I'm not sure they're as rare as they're alleged to be. In fact, we got two Siamese mixes, littermates: one is the snowshoe mix, the other is a lynx mix. I had no idea there even were such cats until we adopted them. They're wonderful little cats!
Definitely looks like a snowshoe to me. We found one at the humane society so it's not out of the realm of possibility.