What breed could my cat be?

[Diplobrat]

This is just a bit of fun because I know no one can really tell.

My cat Krikkit came from Cats Protection early last year who had him down as a domestic medium hair (aka moggy). However at just over 2yo he appears to still be growing (4.7 kg now and not overweight as far as I can tell). He has also put on an excellent winter coat in the last few weeks.

This has led me, DP and the cat sitter to speculate that he might have a bit of something else in him (possibly norwegian forest cat).

What do you all think?

Oh poor posh boy!. At least he has you.

Better photo of our fluffy clone here.

Also not the sharpest tool in the box. We had a cat puzzle feeder in the kitchen that she hadn’t worked out in six months. The new kitten, aged ten weeks, womb-led in and went ‘Oh look, cat treats!’ and scooped them out in seconds.

She falls out of trees and off her feeding table regularly, too.

But she’s ever so soft and gentle, and so decorative.

‘Womb-led’???
My phone is weird. ‘Wombled’.

GuppytheCat soo pretty

Thank you - we think so too.

Her mum was a small black and white moggy, her litter mates were all chunky shorthaired black and white, and then there was our fluffy oddball.

Some big fluffy feral tomcat must be fathering half the kittens in rescue centres, to judge from this thread!

See if these work today

Ours is a rag doll cross - I'd say your cat looks more like that!

I’m going with part Turkish van. I think his face is squarer than a NFC. NFCs tend to have more triangular shapes faces.

*shaped not shapes

@diplobrat, DTwatCat#1 has a middle name. A very unimportant one. So unimportant, I kept it secret from DP.

I deliberately did it so that DP, who was taking him to his first appointment, would have the vet call out in front of everybody 'DTwatCat Slartibartfast Wankerly-DoublebarrellDP'sName'.

He might have threatened me with murder most horrid for doing that to him. It was worth every moment.

Anyhow, back to the point of your post, DTwatCat #2 has suspected MC heritage, as she's got ear tufts, so much fur between her toes that she power drifts around corners and the biggest set of feathers fluffiest arse in town. Yours looks slightly more TV than the weegie or MC.

However, I suspect like most posh breed cats that are flogged by the feline equivalent of BYBs (such as the type who sell to people in flats - exactly how I ended up with rescuing #2), they've all got random mog more than anything that can be attributed to any one breed, so there's absolutely no way of telling, as BYBs aren't too careful with the part weegie being kept away from the part MC and from the others in the area.

They've got away with it in dogs by bastardising the names to claim it's a 'breed' and not a mongrel. But cats are too similar to need to make up a name, they just sell them under what they think the kitten will get the most money/whatever advert of multiple gumtree entries is answered by a punter.

Ooh, these cats are lovely! TurduckenCat is a short hair so is zero maintenance, do you have to do lots of brushing of these floors beasts?

@madambee - thank you! That does make more sense, but "fanget" totally should mean "fanged"

Looking at the thread, I'm wondering if there's only a limited number of daft, fluffy cat designs available - I find it's very suspicious that there are so many lookalikes on one thread otherwise

Turduckenfucken we rarely brush ours. There’s the annual ‘Oh god, she fell in the thistle patch again’ event, when we patiently disentangle about 20 thistleheads from her fuzz —before giving up and getting the scissors out— but apart from that, she gets a quick comb if I think about it.

Should say that we don’t deliberately grow thistles - we back into a patch of rough ground that does!

Cat here needs brushing as gets regularly full of dreadlocks, but regards any sort of brush as the instrument of Satan ... so I wait till he's deeply asleep and try to snip out the dreadlocks! Oddly enough he doesn't shed like short haired cats, much less hair all over the place than many DSHs I have known.

Guppy we have some mysterious seed producing plant in the garden which exists mainly for the purpose of getting itself caught in Cats floof. He also not infrequently comes in with slugs tangled up in it

Oh yes, the slugs. I'd mercifully blanked out the slugs. She just doesn't seem to notice them!

She has sensitive skin, a sensitive stomach and gets sunburn. I don't think she''d be suited to life in the wild.

Boke! Slug infested floof? I'd be reaching for the Veet.

Can I join in? Here is ours fluffy girl.

I've also got a similar looking cat.

Love seeing all these cat pictures

@NorskSkogkatt bless, she sounds adorable!

In answer to OP l think part Main Coon or NFC

Ha @EL8888 I thought of this thread yesterday - the cat was very jumpy in the lounge and kept backing away from something, I worried it was a mouse but closer inspection revealed it was her shadow

I've posted this before on MN but here is a picture of her transfixed by a fence when she was younger. I love her so much

Norsk, you are underrating your cat. That is clearly not a fence but the crack in the Doctor Who universe.

Aah it is like my littlest cat who thinks all of the secrets of the universe can be seen by staring at the bedroom radiator when it is on. I have looked myself but can never find anything out...