Largest Domestic Cat Breed

Table – largest domestic cat breed

Largest Domestic Cat Breed – Table – showing cat breed minimum, average and maximum weights in both pounds and kilograms. The figures for large cats are not meant to be maximums as you will get an exceptional cat but that does not answer the question as to the Largest domestic cat breed. Please note that these are average figures so they are an amalgam of male and female weights.

Also things change (getting heavier I suspect) and different cat breeders or cat associations may have different ideas about cat breed weights.

Update: I have included weights from The Encyclopedia of the Cat by Dr Bruce Fogle as at May 2010.

As a guide average sized male cats should weigh in the order of 9-12 pounds and females about 7-9 lbs (although this can be challenged!).

Both pounds and kilograms shown.

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1. Allerca is effectively a mixed breed cat in terms of cat breed and the cat’s weight is decided accordingly
2. Ashera GD is effectively a Savannah, a wildcat/domestic cat hybrid. The weight has been assessed accordingly as an estimated weight of an F1 (first generation from the wild Serval) Savannah. This cat is not a breed recognized by the cat associations but this is a domestic cat and I include it on that basis. If the Ashera GD is a Savannah in all but name that supports the view that the cat should be included in this survey. Update: it is a Savannah cat.
3. When this cat is a domestic cat, he or she is a tamed wildcat. She is firmly in that twilight zone between wild and domestic cat and the cat associations do not recognize her as a domestic cat breed. However, as the situation stands, she is treated as a domestic cat breed for the very few people who have the means and desire to keep this beautiful wildcat. This breed is therefore included in this survey on the largest domestic cat breed.

Note: Miniature cats are not cat breeds neither are Teacup cats. These are mixed breed cats, bred small. They cannot therefore form part of this list.

One undeniable fact is that the vast majority of domestic cat breeds are medium sized cats. Within the ranks of medium sized cats there is some variation in size and weight and it is this that I have tried to ascertain and set out in the table. There are one or two outstanding cats in terms of size at the heavy end of the spectrum. At the light end the situation is less clear.

Without wishing to overstate the obvious this page does not provide the results of research into the largest domestic (individual) cat. But in order to respond to some visitors who might have arrived here looking for information on that subject, here is some.

Stories will pop up from time to time about exceptionally large cats. One is in the papers this morning (11-4-08). It concerns a ginger mixed breed cat called Orazi. I can’t show the picture due to copyright issues but he is basically a very big cat anyway and he is overweight. That is why he weighs 35 lbs (16 kg)! He is Italian. Maybe he eats too much pasta.

Other record breakers are Sam a British cat weighing 36 lbs (16.3 Kg). He was a fat cat proving the point that individual records are pretty meaningless except to say the people keeping thes cats are overfeeding them. An American cat weighed 41 lbs (18.5 kg) apparently. See also: World’s Fattest Cat and Clauz World’s Fattest Cat 1950 and World’s Biggest Cat.