He is very tall - very long, mainly white with very distinctive ginger markings, he has ginger rings on his tail, a very pointed and angular face, quite big ears (very very pink inside!) he has gold eyes. His traits are funny - a very low quiet meow which he uses rarely, a very high pitched excited purr, he is super clever can open doors and get in anything - he adores dogs and is forever playing with next doors or infact any dog he can find - he is fearless with dogs, he also loves water - he will sit on my belly with his feet in the water when I am in the bath - he loves hose pipes. he is very naughty too, bullies the other cats a bit (I think thats the ginge in him though!!)
So what do you think???!
2006-11-29 03:59:56 · 17 answers · asked by Grace - baby No.2 due in October 3 in Pets ➔ Cats
sorry - he definately isn't a Devon Rex - he is straight short haired (I should have mentioned that!!)
2006-11-29 04:06:51 · update #1
In answer to a poster - I have NOTHING against Moggies and have two - Harry my white and ginger cat just strikes me as an extroidanry cat - I am not hung up on his breed - I would be interested to know however how his characteristics have developed and where he may have come from!! a cat is a cat is a cat no matter what the breed - I love all of them!! Harry is a stray that came to my door many years ago - I am not biased about any cats! I was just interested!
2006-11-29 04:13:52 · update #2
I believe your cat may be a Flamepoint. I have two of them. They usually have a siamese background. My flamepoint's mother was a siamese. Mine are quiet large and probably weigh about 25 lbs. Or at least it seems so. I have a few pictures of mine about a year ago on Webshots. Go to http://community.webshots.com/user/shelby8787 and click on my Baby Flamepoints pictures and see if your cat looks like them. These pics are over year ago and their much larger now. Let me know what you think? If they are then you can research Flamepoints on the net.
2006-11-29 04:48:55 · answer #1 · answered by shelby 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I agree that he sounds very much like a Turkish Van or a Turkish Van hybrid. Does he also have ginger markings on his head?
There's a picture & a description of a Turkish Van here:
http://www.petpublishing.com/catkit/breeds/turkishvan.shtml
This breed has been known as the 'swimming cat' & it can have amber/gold eyes.
However, you say that his face is quite pointed or angular & that he has big ears - so he sounds quite Oriental in appearance which doesn't really fit with the body shapes of most Turkish Vans that I have seen.
I wonder if it is possible that he could be a Seychellois - specifically a Seychellois Neuvieme which is almost entirely white with a colored tail and only small patches of color on the head. It's turning out really difficult to find a good photo of one for you to look at - so I've put several in the links below.
Or possibly a combination of the both? He sounds adorable, either way.
2006-11-29 06:41:28 · answer #2 · answered by Solow 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well, since you don't have a pedigree for him, he'll never be counted as more than an ordinary domestic shorthair. But as to what breeds he could be a mix of, it could pretty much anything.
If the built is similar to that of devon rexes, or cornish rexes (quite dissimilar), he COULD have some of that in him, because if you mix any rex with another cat, even if you mix devon and cornish together, the offspring isn't curly.
It also depends a lot on HOW shorthaired he is. Really really short hair, or normal short hair?
2006-11-29 04:58:30 · answer #3 · answered by chibs 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sounds like it could be related to a Burmese. They come in different colors. But depending on the eye color it could associate it with another breed, I have 2 solid white cats who came from just cats. There is a myth with the albino version...but alot of albino's are blind or go blind.
The size may be associated with him being male. Both mine are huge.
Or he's just a solid dominant Tabby cat as they have round markings. Hope this helped!
2006-11-29 04:12:29 · answer #4 · answered by ~Another Day~ 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He is a common domestic short hair, ginger and white.
Why are people so hung up on breeds? I have 11 lovely domestic shortairs (moggies) and they are wonderful.
2006-11-29 04:10:10 · answer #5 · answered by fenlandfowl 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
as a vet nurse he sounds like an ordinary moggy i'm afraid but without seeing him i could be wrong although you dnt get many pedigree gingers apart from the cornish rex or manchurians and norweigan forest cats. but they can look like moggys
2006-11-29 08:08:59 · answer #6 · answered by clarelcook 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your cat fits the description of a breed known as the Turkish Van cat. Check out this site on Turkish Van cats.
http://www.freedom.co.za/vans/
Here is the CFA breed standard for the breed.
http://www.cfainc.org/breeds/standards/turkish-van.html
2006-11-29 04:05:10 · answer #7 · answered by TheSnakeWhisperer 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
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2016-10-13 08:46:57 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wow! Can't help you with the breed, sorry! But what an amazing cat you have, he sounds absolutely gorgeous, you're a very lucky person.
2006-11-29 11:58:15 · answer #9 · answered by Littlehoneybee 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
if he has long shaggy fur and long shaggy ruff, looks like a mini bobcat with a raccoon tail, he would be a maine coon.
if he has short hair, he is a domestic feline, tabby, red.
and if he is not fixed, he is a TOM, which is not a breed but a gender. tomcats tend to bully--testosterone causes maleness, for some reason.............male hormones in pets can cause aggression. also in humans..
2006-11-29 04:05:57 · answer #10 · answered by z-hag 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋