by Maria Livingston
(San Francisco, CA)
He's pretty big
I have a beautiful multi-color female cat (Bella), that just turned a year old in July.
A friend of mine brought her cat (Symba) for a play date. She left her cat and never took him back!
So Symba is about 4 months younger than Bella and well now they have kittens, which were born 8/26/2010.
She had 3 gold and 3 multi-color. The male cat is very weird. He acts more like he's on the prowl, like a lion almost.
He's pretty big considering that he is not even a year old. He is very strong and long and is very muscular all around, his neck is big sometimes I call him muscle neck or a jock.
His eyes are a yellow gold and he is a pale gold/bleach blonde color with darker gold pattern designs. He meows very masculine, kinda creepy sometimes and he is aggressively affectionate.
He wants to follow me everywhere I go and jumps higher than the average cat, his paws are big. He is not even a year old and he is about 15 pounds of solid muscle.
Do you think you can tell me if by any chance you might know what species my cat is.
I have uploaded pictures of him. You can e-mail me at Maria_lvngstn@yahoo.com.
Maria
Hi Maria... thanks for visiting and asking. Bella, the multi-coloured cat is, as far as I can tell, a semi-longhaired calico cat. Calico means tortoiseshell (new window) and white. She is a mixed breed or random bred cat - meaning not a purebred cat but a lovely looking cat nonetheless.
The big boy is just that. An athletic mixed breed cat but not a purebred cat in my opinion.
This is not to criticize - far from it. Without wishing to upset breeders, random bred cats are often better, taken as a whole, than purebred cats.
He is big and strong. He is healthy. And I love him....:).
His coat is a dilute red mackerel tabby and white.
Take care Maria and love to your cats.
P.S. All domestic cats are one species - domesticated wildcats - felis silvestrus catus
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Could you please tell me what breed my cats are? to Moggie cats
She is a super looking cat. I have presumed she is female because to me she looks female. She’s a random bred cat in my view although she may have some Maine Coon genes in her.
Hi Melissa, sorry for not responding sooner. Your cat does have some of the characteristics of a Maine Coon but also looks like an attractive long-haired random bred cat. I’d say she is the latter because you’d have papers to prove she was pedigree is she was an MC. Thanks Melissa. Gorgeous looking cat.
Want to know if Lulabelle is a maine coon.