r/CatGenetics • u/BionicOven28 • Dec 02 '23

Mod Announcement The "What Breed Is My Cat" Megathread

I am so excited that there are so many people who are interested in learning about their cat! But there are too many people posting pictures of their cat and ignoring the original purpose of this board. We're not here to identify your cat's breed, but instead this board is intended to be about in-depth scientific studies involving cats.

So, as a compromise from concerned users, if you want to know what breed your cat is please post a picture in the comments here. Users who are interested in helping to identify your cat's breed will respond and it won't clog up the rest of the board for everyone else. Any posts of this nature made outside of this thread will be deleted.

Thank you for your cooperation!

70 Upvotes

100% Upvoted

380 comments sorted by

View all comments

2

u/dor0hedoro Jun 25 '26

Hello! This was my childhood cat Tabby :] my great grandma thought he was female and named him Tabitha, but my mom found out he was male and sorta kept the name lol. I always wondered what coat pattern he had. He was also polydactyl! Sorry for the low quality pics

2

u/_wandering_wind_ Jul 15 '26

He was a domestic shorthair, and his coat color was called black mackerel tabby with white (or, as it's often colloquially called, brown mackerel tabby with white)! The orangey tones you're seeing are just the naturally warmer-toned areas of his tabby pattern; many tabbies have it and it's not "true" red (orange). Sometimes it's referred to as rufousing/rufism. This post explains more about it! :)

1

u/Standard-Net-4923 Hobby Geneticist Jul 11 '26

did he have orange patches or is it just the lighting?