It's just a cat (not sucky but annoying)

[tigerlily0]

People who insist that all cats have to be one breed or another are usually dog people and know jack squat about cats. In the dog world, generally each dog is one breed or another, or a cross of breed X and breed Y, or some of X and some of Y and some of Z, et cetera. Everything is done in terms of breeds. And people who know nothing about cats just assume cats are the same way.

Around here, your run-of-the-mill normal non-breed cats are called domestic shorthairs or domestic longhairs.

Oh, and "tabby" and "tortoiseshell" et cetera are not breeds -- those are colors/patterns that many different breeds (and normal cats) can have.

[Kyree]

Around here, your run-of-the-mill normal non-breed cats are called domestic shorthairs or domestic longhairs.

Oh, and "tabby" and "tortoiseshell" et cetera are not breeds -- those are colors/patterns that many different breeds (and normal cats) can have.

Drat, you beat me to it, hehe. Though, I had a cat that was a "Medium hair" too.

[Saydrah]

"What kind of cat is he?"




"Half Abyssinian, half sneaky fence-climbing, screen-door-scratching neighbor cat."

[protege]

Let's see now, the only cats vaguely resembling a breed, are the two Maine Coons I've had. I don't know what Snow was (other than white, and deaf), and I'm not sure what Sally is. Do I care? No, not really--they're just nice kitties who love to play and get petted

[Samaliel]

People who insist that all cats have to be one breed or another are usually dog people and know jack squat about cats. In the dog world, generally each dog is one breed or another, or a cross of breed X and breed Y, or some of X and some of Y and some of Z, et cetera. Everything is done in terms of breeds. And people who know nothing about cats just assume cats are the same way.

Some dogs are of no specific breed or, to put the other way around, are of about every and each breed imaginable. They are sometimes referred to as "bastards" around here, but they're generally too cute and/or too funny to be called that. So, they're just dogs.

[Reyneth]

When people ask what kind of cat our Mei Mei is, we say, "The kind that is born under someone's front porch."

Hehehe, my Lilly is an American medium-hair Barcat.

She was born at a bar a friend of mine at the time's father cooked in. They adopted the momma, so Lilly's first "real" foods were things like sausages from the pizzas!

[Bradester]

When I worked for Animal Control, the majority of cats were entered into our license database as DSH, DMH, DLH (domestic short/medium/long hair).

People often do want to classify cats the same way as dogs. I loved trying to enter new cats into our license records.

Citizen: "I just got a cat, he's a tabby."
Me: "Okay, can you describe him for me?"
Citizen: "... He's a tabby."

Brown/black, grey/black, orange/white, what? Made me laugh. I ran into it with some dogs, too; many owners couldn't understand that 'brindle' was a marking, not a color.

So, cat fanciers who fancy cats more than I, a question: are Persian, Himalayan, Ragdoll, etc. considered 'breeds?'

[Stormraven]

Yes - Persians and Himalayas, Siamese, Abyssinian, Russian Blue, Manx and Rex are all breeds that come to mind immediately. And they are specific breeds. I don't know about Ragdolls, though.

[The Gatekeeper]

Yup a Ragdoll is also a breed: http://www.catfacts.org/ragdoll-cat-facts.htm

[tigerlily0]

I think Himalayans are not considered a separate breed any more. They were created I believe by crossing Persians and Siamese to create a color-pointed Persian, which is I think what they are now considered by at least some of the big cat show organizations.