What breed is my cat?

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Xomyak
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What breed is my cat?

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Hi everyone,

We have adopted a female cat a few months ago, she's about 9 months old. When we adopted Mia we were told that she is a shorthaired ragdoll kitten but when she started to grow up, she doesn't look like a ragdoll cat anymore lol.

Anyone know what her breed could be, she is most likely a mix.

Thanks,
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Re: What breed is my cat?

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She's very pretty - I don't actually think shorthaired ragdolls exist. She looks like some kind of tabby colourpoint, but I'm useless with colours (can't even tell you what the two I own are!!)
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I have to agree with Booktigger, I don't believe there are shorthaired Ragdolls (yet). It could be that a Ragdoll queen escaped and met an unneutered male moggy and she is a Ragdoll cross. While no expert I'm sure i've seen reference to Ragdolls with Lynx markings which are tabby mask, ears paws and tail, which would fit her look.

in the end you have a beautiful cat and even if you don't have a piece of paper to tell you who her great grandparents were, she will still be special to you. i also believe that while genetics does play a part, nurture is more important to how they behave. We had a Ragdoll once (sadly died several years ago due to old age), we loved him at first sight but knew very little about the breed although we had had other cats previously. So we treated him as we would any cat, he was groomed as any long haired cat would be, and fortunately he enjoyed it, he was allowed to go out into the garden which wasn't cat proofed and interact with the other cats in the area. The only concession he got, and one that has continued since for my other cats as I realised it was the right thing to do, was to provide a litter tray for him at all times. My previous cats had all used the garden and Blue started to once he was allowed out, but then Bonfire night happened and i found out how scared he was of fireworks, so rather than insist he go out to the garden, or risk him finding somewhere inside, we provided a litter tray, which meant he could do what he needed to in the safety of his home. What I then read about Ragdolls told me i had been doing everything wrong, but when I looked at Blue all i saw was a happy cat, and it made me wonder how many pedigree cats are the way they are because that is what the owners are lead to expect, rather than being allowed to be themselves and for their personalities to develop in their own way.

So enjoy your Mia for what she is and let her be herself with out trying to fit her to a mould that doesn't match. I am sure she is going to be a beautiful girl and a wonderful companion for you.
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She is a lovely looking girl. Same as Ruth I had a Raggie boy, he was a Traditional with a full pedigree back to "Breed Origins / Foundation" bla bla bla, to be honest with the full 10 or 12 generations in front of me I realised just how inbred a cat must be if the "origin" ie breed founder is just one single cat in 1960-something. For a start that one cat had to breed with something, and the resulting kittens had to breed with something, if those somethings aren't another breed then they are its own brothers and sisters. It's quite shocking when you start looking a little too closely.

In a different way to Ruth my Raggie boy never got the memo of what a Raggie character should be. He was dopey - more slow and dim and clumsy than placid, because he wasn't above biting to let me know he wasn't happy. I was quite proud of him for that, I loved that he really expressed himself quite firmly. He was playful and lively in that way, but not the brightest tool in the box.

In the end you have to realise cats breeds are very new, unlike dogs who started to specialise as soon as humans tamed the first wolves, and some became the hunters and others became the protectors. So there isn't nearly as much breed differentiation in cats, other than the extreme of the most obvious like Folds, curly Rex, hairless Sphinx, button nose Persian or skinny Siamese, and really the breed character is more of a tendency.

Finally with colourpoints, the colour genes came before the breeds. So you can have a colourpoint cat that has no recognised breed it it at all. I can't see the colour of her eyes but the colourppoint with blue eyes is a temperature-sensitive albino, a form of albinism. Their eyes tend to be more sensitive to bright light and if you bandage a paw for a few weeks when you remove the bandage the fur underneath will be paler - the warmer the part of the body, the paler the colour, hence the "points" which are the coolest parts.

So what breed is, she, well, she's a cat, and a lovely looking one.
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