I’ll care about cat breeds when my cat starts showing that she cares about anything.
Used to work at an animal shelter, and I can count on one hand the number of cats we’d ever had that were anything other than “D(S/L)H (color and pattern)” or “(pattern) Siamese”
Good! That means not too many breeders are interested in fucking up their health for the sake of some stupid feature.
What’s D, S, L and H?
Domestic Short/Long Hair
Is that Jambo?
jschlatt
We have a big, white, mixed breed dog. People ask us all the time if she’s a Great Pyrenees, an English Cream, or what have you. She’s a dog. 100% pure dog.
Is that from Kenshi?
Dog from Half Life 2
Half life 2
one of the dogs of all time
We had a farmyard crossed dog that lived for almost 17 years I called him a car-puk-eh because of his lifelong affliction with motion sickness.
A lot of people asks if my cat is a maine coon, because big and fluffy –but he doesn’t have other features. I always answers that he’s a bastard (meaning mixed origins).
Mine’s a bastard too. (though no mixed origins)
Mine’s too. (cus he act like one)
oh you don’t know oranges. It may be a generic name but they have a very specific set of skills lol
Dog owners:
- What a beautiful dog
- His name is mister leopold dogus the third, I bought from the only breeder on north hemisphere and it cost me 168k dolars
Cat owners:
- What a cute cat
- it followed me home from the trash bins, i cal him cat
it followed me home from the trash bins, i cal him cat
Two of my adopted cat are being named “cat” in my language.
In my defence, vet need a name and i couldn’t think of one.
I named my first ferret “Girl” and her sister “Yu”. One of my turtles is named “Turtle”. My creativity knows no bounds.
I did name my dog Sophie though, so one out of four could be worse.
Well we learn how to name stuff the more we do. My third cat is Tina and my 4th cat is bean in my language, so a step forward.
my friend had a cat named bird. I’m sure it’s not only but i always found it funny
I had a “cat” cat too, but nothing to say in my defense. And I named the cat who came in my yard but wasn’t mine “big nose” because he had a big nose.
Why are the dog owners crying?
I’ve had a ragdoll, a bengal, and a bunch of "American Shorthair"s.
nah, that’s a pomeranian spitz
Well let’s see, known cat breeds:
Orange, Tuxedo, Standard Issue, Void, Siamese (my parents had a flame point siamese that was weird), naked wrinkly cat, Fluffball.
Think that about covers it.
Edit: Oh yes, Torties and Calicos, and I forgot one I love: Tactical Issue! Some people think they’re just sneaky cats. Nope! Grey and white stripes that blend in well with urban environments
Russian blue! AKA “grey cat”.
Smoke cats!
i’m pretty sure screamy baby is a cat breed
There’s also spicy cats, which include wild cats and big cats.
Spicy cats are kind of scary tho
Especially when they’re not very far away from you without a cage or glass between it and you
Calico!!! tuxedo plus orange
um and torties i guess
The Fabulous Staredycat Sisters thank you for righting a great wrong by including them! Now they can relax again 😉
No problem!
I have a standard issue cat that has a bit of orange in her. She is super chill and affectionate, loves being held and is quite vocal when she wants something (uppies or treats). Although she doesn’t really exhibit any other traits of being an orange cat.
Most of those aren’t breeds, they’re patterns. A calico can have tabbies and torties in the same litter
Don’t forget the recently discovered Salmiak!
I’m pretty sure that’s where alf is from
How far we’ve come (fallen?) from the days of alt.tasteless trolling rec.pets.cats.
I’ve met far too many people who either subscribed or would have subscribed to Cat Fancy.
On the other hand, I don’t even know if there’s a word for “mutt” with cats the way there is for generic mixed dogs. When I last moved and got a new vet, and they asked me what breed my cats were and I said I wasn’t sure as they didn’t have any “distinctive” breed and were shelter adopts, they pretty much just said “Domestic shorthair it is then”. Not sure if that’s something particular that’s just common or a catch-all term.
Based on a dogs shape and coat, you can pretty easily determine the breed families in it. It’s important to know since dog breeds are much more diverse due to their history with humans around the world—most have jobs bred into them. So it’s still good to know if your dog has breeding in it that thrives on exercise or fetch jobs or that sort of thing. Most of those little dogs are for hunting small vermin and are savage fuckers, for example.
Cats it’s mostly one size fits all with a random roll on personality stats.
“Mongrel” is the word, but I’ve barely heard it used.
Pretty confident “domestic shorthair” is the “John Doe” of cat breeds.
“Mongrel” is the word, but I’ve barely heard it used.
Because that term can’t really be applied to cats. They’re either a particular breed or they’re not. There’s no cat equivalent of a labradoodle. Over here we have “European shorthair” as the most prevalent breed and “European house cat” as a fallback for anything that isn’t a breed.
I’ve only ever heard that used about people, as a slur.
Domestic shorthair is the equivalent of mutt or so I was told! Coat color is its own thing. So I have a domestic shorthair that’s piebald, my mother has a domestic shorthair that has a tortie coat.
Moggy can be used for cats the way mutt is for dogs, but I think it might be more common in the UK? I don’t really hear it in the US, maybe cat breeders use it.
But yeah, for vets and rescues it’s just domestic short hair/long hair (sometimes medium hair).
it’s just domestic short hair/long hair (sometimes medium hair).
Also: domestic longish hair, domestic asymmetric bob (AKA Karen cat), and Domestic mullet.
Domestic short hair sounds like the aristocracy thought mutt was too common
My friend has a munchkin void. It can go from purr to hiss in a fraction of a second.
That sounds like my mum’s cat. She was a feral, left on the doorstep of the pub.
She’ll hiss and growl at everything, but you just distract her with a toy, then it’s all purrs and snuggles.She has a weird obsession with licking faces, which evolved from biting faces.
As someone who prefers licks, this is good progress
I have never had my eskie mistaken for a husky, it’s always either a Pomeranian or a Samoyed.
That being said I do also have an orange braincell, a void, a tortie and a good girl.
Is that “Schlomoschlexual” in the bottom picture?
