Here are some rare cat breeds – the photos are copyrighted to Helmi Flick.
Kinkalow – Very rare 
Sokoke – Very rare 
Serengeti – Rare
Here is the list (updated and checked on 27th July 2011):-
Selection of breeds on the fringes (there are lots more). See a list of fringe domestic cat breeds, with links to more on the breed. I have listed the more prominent ones below:
| Abyssinian Bobtail (feral cat) Accicat Aegean Cat (native to Greece – early development) Albino Siamese (self explanatory) Alpine Lynx (hybrid wildcat/domestic) American Keuda (Egyptian Mau lookalike) American Lynx (hybrid wildcat (Bobcat)/domestic) American Miniature Antipodean Australian Mist (this cat is more mainstream I believe). Australian Tiffanie (more mainstream than fringe) Bahraini Dilmun Bohemian Rex Black Bengal Britanica (long haired Brit. Shorthair) Brooklyn Rex (NY curly haired cat) Canella (Brit. SH x Persian) Caracat (wildcat – caracal/domestic – Aby hybrid Cashmere (longer haired Bengal) Celtic SH Chantilly/Tiffany Cheetoh (Bengal x Ocicat) Cheub (Selkirk Rex with Persian faces) Chinese White (Angora like cat) Cyprus Cat Desert Lynx (Manx x Bobcat) | Dragon Li European Shorthair Euro Chausie (Wild/domestic hybrid – European wildcat x Chausie) German Rex (more mainstream and listed below too) Highlander (more mainstream) Honeybear (related to IRCA Ragdolls) Jambi & Habari Jungala (NZ Ocicat) Khao Manee Kucing Malaysia (like Tonkinese) Mandalay (NZ Aby/Burmese cross) Marbled Mist (Aussie Mist marbled coat) Mekong Bobtail Mexican Mokave Jag Cat (see below)  Nile Valley Egyptian Cat Poodle Cat Russian Black (black Russian Blue) Russian White Sterling (Chinchilla longhair) Templecat (Birman shorthaired) Tenessee Rex Twisty Cat (mutation) Ural Rex Van Kedi (A Turkish “Van” cat) |
I have a Tennessee Rex a new breed in development with Tica. It features the new to cat fancy satin coat mutation. The satin coat is as it sounds shiny like silk or satin and soft like a cashmere sweater.
Rare cat breeds are actually normally no more expensive than the more common breeds. Some are rare because they are not popular so very few are bred by breeders. If they are not popular that forces the price down.
I hope you are well Darlene. Nice to hear from you.
so is that why most rare breeds of cats can be not cheap at all to purchase one? my first cat was a maine coon cat but i didn’t have to pay to much money for her because i adopted her from a humane society
Natasha, could you capture a picture?
If this cat seems relatively harmless, PLEASE don’t call animal control. That would mean certain death.
It has super large ears in the moonlight the silhouette is beautiful. We don’t feel threatened. But if its rare wanted to make sure its preserved safely. But I have never seen a cat as big or have those directional tall ears.
Personally I wouldn’t call animal control because if the cat is doing no harm it may end up being killed. Large Savannah cats (F1-F2) are rare so probably not that. Could be a large tabby cat. He/she may be an outdoor cat roaming widely. Personally, I’d watch and wait. No harm done. I don’t see any danger. Large domestic cats and even small wild cats aren’t a danger to people. It is the opposite.
I’d be carefully about catching it because someone might own the cat. Technically it could be theft to catch a cat and take it away.
But of course each person has their own way of dealing with things. My style is to live and let live unless you have to take action.
Thanks for asking.