What Kind of Breed Is My Cat?
July 13th, 2010
my cat is white and brown. she is a female and no bigger then a loaf of bread. but she is 3 yrs old. i got her from south Carolina and her mother was a brown tabby but her farther is a ragdoll but she is a short hair.
Hi!
It sounds like she is non-purebred or non-pedigreed cat. (No particular breed.) This is often called a Domestic Shorthair. It isn’t really a breed though, just a description.
Tabby also isn’t a breed; it’s a description of coat color and pattern. The Ragdoll is a breed. Some people might call your cat "mixed breed" if she has Ragdoll traits inherited from her father.
Non-pedigreed cats make great pets!
domestic short hair ( 80% of cats )
aka mixed breed
aka mutt
aka heinz 57
How was her father a Ragdoll when breeders tend to sell kittens altered and never allow crossbreeding?
And even if this was a Ragdoll – how would your cat be ANY breed if it wasn’t from two cats of the same breed? Cats of particular breeds don’t just "happen" – they come from the matings of pedigreed cats of the same breed.
Your cat – like its parents – isn’t ANY breed. It’s a "domestic" just like over 97% of the cats on this entire planet.