What breed of cat is this?

[PitterPaws]

http://cats.about.com/gi/dynamic/of....petpublishing.com/catkit/breeds/birman.shtml

 

[Cara]

As best as I can recall, from his wrists to his toes he is the same greyish colour as his face, and his toes are the same whitish colour as the rest of him. Does that make sense? LOL He merges into the grey colour on the tip of his tail and his legs, and his feet look like they were dipped in white paint.

 

[Katy]

Cats like this (siamese, himalaya, burman, etc) darken as they get older.....so if he's a young cat he'll get darker so he'd look more like the cat on the link.

 

[airmom1c05]

I had two Siamese mixed with who knows cats. I called them "Amerasian" kitties!

 

[Cara]

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LOL I wonder if he'd affect my visa status

 

[Farmer Kitty]

I agree with Katy on the mix. I have barn cats that look like him. Mine have always been very friendly and lovey-although ours all get spoiled!

 

[lacyloo]

yea himalyian siemeess

 

[patandchickens]

I think the chances are extremely high that the cat did *not* come into its siamese (pointed) coloring from actual siamese parents -- he looks *nothing* like modern siamese (not even much the old-style applehead ones which a few folks are still breeding). Though if he turns out to have an unusually loud frequent *piercing* voice, sounding extremely different from most cats, then I may be wrong and he *could* be a Siamese x long- or medium-haired mutt cross, but I really don't expect that.

How old is he? If it is well grown then it is probably not a longhair as such (you know, the serious Persian-length mop type

) but rather a "medium hair" cat with the very dense plushy fine soft coat of longhairs without the full length. Sometimes the tail ends up plume-ier than the rest of the body, sometimes not. There are a few breeds for which this type of coat is the standard, but medium-haired cats from shelters are virtually always mixes.

I would guess that more likely this is a "mutt" with some Himalayan or Ragdoll somewhere back in its ancestry. Probably not as its parents, either, since it has neither white spotting (in photo anyhow) nor Himalayan-looking ears. There are lots of cats out there with 'siamese' coloring with no purebreds of any description in any recent part of their ancestry, so this is quite plausible for him. I would not predict any particular personality characteristics on the basis of how he looks, since IME cats looking like that can be 'all over the map'.

His color? It is hard to be sure from the photo but my best guess would be that he's a blue-point. Is the color on the bridge of the nose about what you'd expect for your basic solid gray (aka 'blue') cat?

I am sure he's a good cat -- if he *is* a longhair-shorthair mix, I have had great good luck with those, as they don't require as much daily coat care as longhairs but they're nice and fluffy, and often good lap cats

Good luck,

Pat

 

[Rosalind]

White feet == Birman mix. Birmans can have the blue or lavender points that he has, and they also have that intermediate sort of long/short fur combination. Looks like very dim lighting in the pic--does he have bright blue eyes? All Birmans do.

He doesn't have the real Birman conformation though, which is why I think he's a mix. Something about the shoulders, he should be stockier and fluffier around the shoulders and wider in the face, although he may just be very young. It's also not unheard-of for really irresponsible, bad breeders to dump their culls at shelters or with breed rescues instead of selling them for pet quality. I got a couple of good Maine Coons from shelters, my latest one being very high-quality but temperamentally bad for showing.

 

[patandchickens]

Ragdolls (and anything descended from them) have white feet, too, though, no?

Also any sort of mix that has a cat with the white-spotting gene in its background.

I think statistically the chances of him being any sort of rare purebred are nearly nil.


Pat