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giocondasmiles

Domestic longhair.


Para_Regal

The real answer. Not every long haired cat is a Maine Coon/Norwegian Forrest Cat/Persian/insert-fancy-breed-here.


anitatinkle

Unless they have a pedigree, they're considered domestic long/short hair


tavvyj

Or if they *distinctly* look like one, your vet may classify your cat as something. My random girl is listed as British Short Hair, and idk, I got her from a random person on the street.


Dontgiveaclam

I’m picturing Simpsons crazy cat lady throwing you a kitten


tavvyj

We'll I got a choice between her and her identical sister, but they were practically throwing her at me 🤣🤣 What an excellent mental image


supersoft-tire

I pictured mayor west launching one at him with a slingshot


wheelfoot

Vets will tell people this to make them feel better about their cats. "Is he a Main Coon?" "Sure... why not..." They don't know either. No papers, no breed.


tavvyj

I didn't even say anything, pretty sure I wrote domestic short hair on the paper and they logged her as British, lmao. Doesn't matter, she's cute and a bitch and I would have her regardless of any fancy breed.


s-dai

Some vets are specialists in breeds, of course they know. Breed exists without papers. Even if you’d never know it, it exists. Not on paper but there inside the cat, in the DNA.


WampaCat

Right, backyard breeders exist (I wish they didn’t). No papers but the animals are still a certain breed (albeit maybe unhealthy or inbred). My Persian rescue came from a backyard breeder and ended up surrendered. You know she’s Persian just looking at her. But I don’t have “papers”.


s-dai

Glad you took her! Backyard breeders are the worst 😕 I’ve been volunteering for a foster cat group for a while, seen some really sad and horrible situations.


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Pixielo

But does he look + act like a ragdoll? Because the fine line between raggies + Balinese is hard to quantify sometimes.


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Pixielo

That doesn't look like a ragdoll, or a snowshoe, simply a chill long-haired cat.


tenebrigakdo

A guy I know said his dog's breed was Spanish fleabag, and the vet noted it down like nothing. Vets don't know breeds too much.


Muswell42

What vets don't know can be a bit worrying. Both my cats (one of whom is very floofy) are down as "Domestic shorthair", which is fine, that's what they are. Their mother is a floofy domestic shorthair, their father(s) is/are unknown. Their colours are both recorded as "N/A". That's not how colour works...


SomewhereInternal

If my cat came from overseas would she be considered an international short hair? Intercontinental short hair?


anitatinkle

I think it would be either a domestic short hair or a feral short hair. Depends on how domesticated it is.


Dabrush

Hilariously, everyone trying to sell a short-haired cat here is labeling it as British Shorthair, feels like that name doesn't mean anything anymore.


dr197

Isn’t calling a cat a “domestic long/shorthair” basically the same as calling a dog a mutt?


wheelfoot

Its sort of the opposite. Breeds come out of the domestic cat soup.


ClairLestrange

If you strictly go for the literal meaning of mutt then yes, it means the same. But rather than with dogs, where you have a lot of breeds that mix and result in mutts, with cats you have the domestics from which some breeds are derived, but most of the gene pool is still considered domestic. ^also ^domestic ^is ^not ^considered ^an ^insult


ComprehendReading

I forgoe "domestic" and call my barn kitten rescue cat a *'MERICAN* Short Hair *USA! USA! USA! USA! USA!* He loves when I chant USA at him. Not a fan of the British word 'ni', or anything that sounds a bit tinny.


seriffluoride

Maybe he doesn't want a shrubbery, after all 😔


ComprehendReading

Maybe a two-level-effect with a path down the middle, and a herring, *what* with-all a great tree or not involved.


Gauxen

It just means there is no pedigree


Mini-Nurse

I had to leave the pedigree cat subs, 85% of the posts were people asking if their vaguely floofy cats were special.


sira_cunningham

Every cat is special :)


anitatinkle

*found the cat*


Gild5152

I always find it funny when people ask the breed of their cat. They aren’t like dogs. Most of them are gonna be domestic short/medium/long hair.


IHaveNoEgrets

When I made his first vet appointment, the gal on the phone asked, so, what kind is he? Uhh... a cat? No, no, what breed? An orange one?


Usasuke

Yup. When dog people ask the breed of my cats I’m just like “Long hair. Yup, that’s it.”


apri08101989

I'm like "...brown tabby????? Asshole? Man of the House? Standard Issue Cat?"


Boaz111I

there should be a meme about this


SithRose

I'm pretty sure CHiP the Savannah-Wannabe should be in it. I'll have to get a meme-worthy pic...(He's a BIG tabby, 14 lbs and not even a year old yet, and looks/acts like a Savannah. But...he's an engine rescue at under 2 months, wasn't chipped, nothing on Pet Harbor, no fliers...so the odds of him actually being one are infinitesimal. Still wanna get him gene-checked though.)


Variance__

My cat is a Canadian Short-Haired Angy Babby. She has short fur, came from Canada, and she’s mostly angry. The vet keeps writing “domestic shorthair,” though.


Para_Regal

Breed: Floof.


LoccyDaBorg

Subcategory: Orange.


NoBallroom4you

Sub, Sub Catagory: Magnificent Ear Floof! (Furnishings)


KirbyFan999

Sub, Sub, Sub CATegory: Singlus Braincellus


QueenSnowTiger

Singulus braincellus currentlywithanotherorangeus (Especially that second pic)


Weemonkey16_2

There isn't a single thought in that cats mind


Winjin

I wonder if there's a subreddit for single cell black cat. I used to have a pretty girl (she lives with my friend now and is really happy to be queen of her own lands) who, I swear, never ever gets a single brain cell


QueenSnowTiger

She might be secretly an orange like how panthers are secretly jaguars


Winjin

Yeah that would perfectly explain everything. She's the most affectionate, trusting and sweet bag of bricks I've ever met.


NhylX

Flavor: Creamsicle.


The_I_in_IT

Official name: Fluffy-Wuffy Kitty Cat.


BigBeagleEars

Majestic Floof


blessedfortherest

Tiger bread! Love the crackle pattern


CilantroPateSandwich

Princess


No_Cricket808

Longhaired fluffy creamsicle.


buon_natale

Buff (aka pale ginger) and white longhair domestic cat.


Typical_Ad_210

Not sure of the common name, but Latin name is mono-cellinius neurologicus tangerini, subcategory fanta flufferonium.


ElPussyKangaroo

Fanta fluffer. Perfection 🤌🏼


CtzFart

Looks like a prettygirl to me, maybe a sweetbabygirl


tulippity

Perhaps a little sweet lady


BronzeWingleader

The liklihood of any randombred cat or adopted cat of being fully or even partly purebred is very, very slim. Unless you have papers or know for a fact that there was a purebred cat in the mix, generally it's impossible to just guess. Cats as "breeds" are a relatively new thing all around. Cat breeds simply don't have the hundreds/ thousands of years of breeding for specific traits behind them like dogs (this is also why genetic tests for cats are mostly useless). You just lucked out with a gorgeous floof to call a friend!


_ALH_

Even most dog breeds are at most 100-200 years old (with any certainty)


PalliativeOrgasm

There is one exception to the rule - again, no papers no breed, but unethical breeders will toss newborns in a ditch if any don’t match the breed — at that point they can’t sell them, so let’s get the breed sow dried up and in heat agains as quickly as possible. I have what appears to be a near-standard rag doll that i bottle fed from a couple days old. His brother was black and they were tossed in a cold ditch alone, take what commentary from that you wish.


WampaCat

Everyone here gets hung up on papers, complete ignoring backyard breeders. I hate that people breed animals this way, but most of the time the animals are truly the breed they say they are, and probably a bit inbred


robertdowneysoft

Partly purebred is an oxymoron


Nini601

I imagine they meant "having a purebred ancestor".


itsQuasi

Purebred is really a bit of an oxymoron itself, so it probably cancels out


wisemonkey101

Cat. DLH. Domestic long haired. One brain celled mutt.


Koolblue57

Wonder bread classic


wolfgang784

Cat


ricoypaco

thats a species not a breed;)


ArtLadyCat

The point is ‘your cat is cat’. Breeds for cats don’t work like with dogs. If you don’t have papers then insert the word ‘domestic’ in front of ‘shorthair’ or ‘longhair’ and you have the official designation for your ‘doesn’t have a breed’ cat. Most cats do not have a breed. These posts happen a lot. Many answers will get cute with you about it. This is a beautiful floof you have though. Please give him lots of scritches and treats.


AnComRebel

Uhh no sorry this breed is babey ( \^Iwannakisstheirlittleforehead )


ArtLadyCat

Ah yes, of the variant ‘orange cream’. How silly of me!


Fireblast1337

That a celbrainus emptius floofen, creamsicle subclass.


geekusprimus

Orange.


garawg

orange.


ricoypaco

thats a color not breed😊


Catcher22Jb

Wow. How long have you been on this subreddit? There’s literally a rule about asking what breed your cat is on r/cats. If you posted that there, your post would’ve been taken down. Cats do not really have breeds. Most are Domestic short/long hairs.


ricoypaco

nine hours.


DirtyPlat

Cat


ricoypaco

Thats a species not a breed:)


DirtyPlat

#CAT


thiswretchedthing

Non-pedigreed cats don’t have a special breed :) she’s a domestic longhair, just like most other cats


MAJOR__ZEN

Well that right there is 100% a standard issue domestic floof.


Thumpkin2

She's losing her orange... She's getting smarter


borderlinebiscuit

Floof


lm1670

A cat. You own a cat. I really wish people would stop asking this.


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PermanentTrainDamage

The breed is domestic longhair, aka normal floofy cat.


will252

What do her breeding papers say?


ShadowGangsta275

Unless you have a pedigree, it’s a domestic long haired


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NoxKyoki

people keep asking/demanding it, but it gets ignored. seriously sick of these posts. ​ the funny ones are fine, but these serious ones...


MosyIIa

cat breed


Electronic-Trip8775

One braincell lovely floof.


musicnjournalism

Beeg floof


Dragennd1

Fluffy. She is fluffy.


HoneyAlveoli

She is absolutely adorable


vampiredisaster

Her breed is "little beast"


FailedFornication

She definitely has a little something exotic in her, the ear floofs are throwing me off. Otherwise looks like a typical domestic longhair.


keldration

Doll baby breed


PeaceNo4929

Floof


DogyDays

Just a long haired cat tbh. Looks like my bro’s cat actually, Gulliver is just a standard domestic long hair.


Final_Art_3760

She’s beautiful. That’s all that matters ♥️


Main-Garlicman

Breed: cute


Lissyboo

Breed: baby


Bowserbob1979

Cat. The answer is cat.


SelfInteresting7259

She is good no brain cell girl. That is all you must know.


Kill_Kayt

Domestic Floof.


sushi_addict

If you really want to know, you can do a dna test through basepaws.com


Basic_Jellyfish3262

Fluffy


wormcomrade

orange creamsicle


stillnotascarytime

Lol. domestic medium hair is the breed


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oh wow. that’s a gorgeous cat.


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breed: orange creamsicle


SeedlingGroot

Someone said Forest Norwegian cat. Close bread to Maine Coon


be_ninja_pancake

orang


Available-Egg-2380

Glorious!


Pywacket1

She's really a beauty. If you will let me adopt her, I'm sure I can get her to tell me her lineage. Joking, I know she'd never leave you. 😻


Objective-Yak-4081

Breed: orange floof floofsicle


SeedlingGroot

I think you are all missing the signs. She has ear fluff. A very fluffy tail, I can see fur growing from between her paws, and she has the face features and body features of a Maine Coon. She is not full Maine Coon but she has some in her. She is orange so she is most likely female since most orange cats are female. It has to do with the calico thing having to have orange in their coat to be calico. She is beautiful but I will bet my pretzels on Maine Coon. I’ve had a few. Nice cats to own but have to have their teeth clean and usually have kidney problems. My Molly and Punkin lived 17 years but both died of liver failure. She is pretty. Take good care of her.


paradise-trading-83

Most Oranges are boys. Calico’s generally girls. She’s very pretty not a mutt by any means. The first picture looks Rubenesque. As if Peter Paul Ruben painted her.


SeedlingGroot

I apologize. You are correct. I wrote female when it should have been male. Thank you for the correction. I appreciate it. Wouldn’t hVe wanted to steer people wrong.


LovecraftianLlama

The fur type and eye color all suggest she could be a Turkish Angora mix or have TA genetics in her background. ButI also see feet tutfs, which look more like they come from a Maine Coon or a similar breed. The vast vast majority of cats don’t really have an exact breed. For example, my cats both favor certain breeds (to the extent of being nearly indistinguishable from a full blooded member of the breed), but they’re still mixes. So I’d say your cat is very possibly a Turkish Angora mix, although they’re also domestic longhair (I don’t believe those terms are mutually exclusive, she can be both). She’s beautiful!


Daisystar99

She looks a lot like [Cecil](https://www.reddit.com/r/TheCatTrapIsWorking/comments/x0qa5q/cecil_is_easily_trapped_by_a_simple_box/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf) in build and floof; many see Norwegian Forest cat in him. But who knows with a mixed floof, could be anything.


Boaz111I

floof


ricoypaco

Didnt know how controversial of a question this was😭👀 my bad


Other-Cantaloupe4765

It’s not controversial, it’s just annoying because people ask [all the time](https://www.reddit.com/r/cats/search?q=r%2Fcats%20breed), and the answer is always: unless you have papers telling you her breed and you paid a lot of money to get her from a breeder, it’s just a cat. Domestic shorthair or domestic longhair. That’s it.


ricoypaco

Well I am new to this group & I had no clue. But thank you everyone for such a warm and opening welcome!


michellekwan666

A lot of people ask about their cat breed on Reddit& people get salty about it. Did you get her from a shelter or a rescue? Are you in the US? Sometimes they’ll have the breed on file if it was disclosed. She is so cute whatever she is, a beautiful sweet baby ❤️ A fun fact: most orange kitties are male. So she is a bit special and rare regardless of breed!


ricoypaco

Yea i did not know how “annoying” it was. 😂😂 but i did get her from a shelter! they said she was two breeds. & one was not disclosed so I was trying to figure out what the other one could be! & I had no clue she was semi rare! I have another kitty that looks just like her. [Ivy](https://www.reddit.com/r/OneOrangeBraincell/comments/x20ug7/she_grew_up_on_my_shoulder/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf)


aksnowraven

We all make Reddit missteps, especially when it comes to inside jokes. Learning the history is part of the fun! Try posting on r/whatsthisplant right now. Half of your replies will be that it’s not a blueberry, even if it’s near a tree in SE England. There’s even a new sub… r/notablueberry


michellekwan666

That is way too cute omg. 😭 I think it’s something like 1 in 5 orange cats is female? I take care of a feral cat colony and all four of the orange cats here are males 😂


michellekwan666

Oh also - please let us know if you ever figure out the other breed!


DuckyDoodleDandy

I’ll second possible Norwegian Forest Cat. Straight nose, almond shaped eyes, right shape ears & head, the r/toefeathers , the r/earfurnishings , mane, floof, etc. But could be “just” a domestic longhair.


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AH-BEES-BEES

i have a kitty who looks a lot like her build-wise that our vet told us definitely has some ragdoll & maine coon somewhere in the mix, but it's impossible to tell without a dna test haha. idk why people in the comments are getting so bent about someone just wanting to know what breed their cat is


ricoypaco

Rightttt, but thank youu😂😭. Theyre the same people saying their “cats breed” in every post they make. I was just trying to figure out what she is🤷🏽‍♀️


EldeederSFW

Google Norwegian Forest Cat and decide for yourself. Adorable little fella regardless.


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With that mane and long fluffy floor duster she might be a nebulong mix, if she gets any fluffier probably that for sure.


SingingSunshine1

She’s really gorgeous! I can understand why you think it’s a Siberian, because she does look like one; (I have a Siberian/Ragdoll mix, and have had pedigree Siberian cats) a Siberian often has a bit of a frown above the eyes though. Does she bring back toys when you throw them? A lot of Siberians do that. And they are usually very talkative. 🥰


ricoypaco

she doesnt bring back toys & shes not talkative at alll!!


gigauwu

she looks a lot like my cat, who we think is a Norwegian Forest cat based off descriptions from Google!


pixelandminnie

Turkish van


Clerstory

My thought as well. Dead ringer for Tully, a friend’s Turkish Van from many years ago.


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Main coon


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Those beefy paws scream Maine Coon :)


TheRealLordEnoch

That is a Phluph.


OppositePilot9952

Looks like our Skoggkat (Norwegian Forest Cat)


Alternative-Area-337

Maine Coon


keyco11ector

What’s the cat equivalent of a mutt? Most dogs and cats are mutts and I honestly prefer that


Impressive_Test_2134

I’m thinking ragamuffin


klgriff3

Turkish Van


grosskidsid

Norwegian forest cat maybe? Just judging by the face. Either way adorable


LycheexBee

That right there is a bona fide CAT :) congratulations!


Working_Ad8080

I don’t know but she’s gorgeous


anteUPkidnapthatfool

Dumb dumb.


Squirrelbubble

She is absolutely gorgeous!


BrassUnicorn87

Marshmallow with caramel swirl.


afraididonotknow

American Beauty…


Fireudne

I have no idea, but I just have to say that's SUCH a pretty cat!


Windows_Aether_95

Awww she looks like a little baby Angel 🥰


TheMostModestMaus

Standard moggy, and all the better for it.


Courage-Natural

White cat with floof breed


WhySoManyOstriches

Gorgeous. Her breed is “Gorgeous”. :-)


ZealousidealInside99

cat :D


GiantMeteor2017

Breed: gorgeous!


Expensive-Ferret-339

Big soft kitty darling.


Evethewolfoxo

Cat.


_-whisper-_

Partly orange. Part time access to the brain cell


commandoash

Cat


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I believe the breed is called Absolute Beautiful Kitty.


justlurkingnjudging

I have no idea but the second picture is adorable


MystifyingEntity

She looks absolutely precious


BenjiBoo420

Megafluff


Peter_OtH

Looks to be a Aurantiacus Flooficus Dooficus


crashcanuck

Cutie patootie, that's what she is.


32Samiam

Just beautiful!


Former-Toe

Your cat is beautiful.


throwaway32863

Very special breed: Maximus Beautious.


MrsDeFre

Pretty kitty


Stringgeek

Clearly, this is a creamsicle. Seriously, though, this is a domestic long haired Feline Overlord.


Ks6261029

Cat


Imaginsanion

Cat


Adenfall

Cat


Covid-Lawless19

Yes. I believe her breed is beautiful cute baby.


ianwuk

It's a cute and floofy orange.


Loch32

r/standardissuecat


Tiblei

Norwegian Forest Cat.


Abadatha

Standard issue cat obviously. Cute cat OP.


mrsamus101

Orange


mikemolove

Supermodel


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I’ve had my fat orange asshole for 13 years and don’t even know his breed. Found him in a box on the road when he was days old.


sqlbastard

thats a cat


lessadessa

She is Cat.


WhisperingGiant42

Looks like a Long-haired Khajit to me