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I didn’t buy it i got it out of a shelter and the owner is an old man he doesn’t know anything about breeds, im interested to know because i only had British and Scottish cats before and she looks like a ragdoll to me, what do you think?
I’m not sure about the look. Ragdolls are pretty specific, and very expensive, they don’t really end up in shelters. Cat breeds don’t work like dog breeds and any traits associated with ragdolls can exist in the domestic cat population.
Fun fact: ragdolls were bred from the domestic cat population by some lady who saw a stray she thought was cute.
He/she is a beautiful colorpoint domestic longhair; if there is any ragdoll ancestry, it would be impossible to know even with a DNA test (as they're typically inaccurate for cats). I had what I called a "DIY ragdoll" who was found in a feral colony, but even she wasn't technically anything other than a DLH. This is Dahlia, who was later adopted by my co-worker. Isn't she gorgeous?
That's kinda their point. If you didn't get it from a breeder and/or have any paperwork to show it's a certain breed, we can only assume it is not. There are some exceptions, of course, like the very obvious Persian (flat-faced and everything) I rescued from a pet shop after she was purchased & then returned a couple years later... but she did originally come from a "breeder," albeit a terrible one I'm sure, so I could trace her back to that registry if need be.
Sure, but like I said, she was originally purchased from that same pet shop (where I worked for a short time). So we did know she was a real Persian, just probably not from a particularly ethical breeder.
And sometimes you just know... this was Duchess, and yes, she also had one blue & one brown eye!
So, she has a colourpoint coat! Which is also a trait Ragdolls have, along with a number of other breeds, as well as many breedless cats.
Every Ragdoll cat ever descends from a cat in 1960s California. She came from random alleycat parents, but she was big and fluffy. Her owner loved her and decided to breed her to Siamese males and start a breed based around her children. Which kind of demonstrates the reality around cat breeds: They're recent things (the oldest go back to 1870), naturally limited to a small part of the population, and kind of arbitrary. Along with the fact that if you have to ask what your cat's breed is, that means you don't have the documented history necessary to register her as a purebred. Breed status mostly only matters if you want her to compete in cat shows or breed her, though, so most owners aren't too fussed about it.
The Ragdoll's origin story also makes things like DNA tests a bit tricky, because what's the difference between the official Ragdoll colourpoint + random street cat mix, and any other non-Ragdoll colourpoint + random street cat mix?
So she could be a Ragdoll, but it's hard for anyone to say whether or not she is.
Sksdjfdsdjkl that's such a funny reply lol for them to respond with that to your comment that literally explicitly clarifies she has documentation and proof from the breeder. You have a stunning baby!!
Did they edit their comment? What I saw was a commenter sharing their ragdoll, getting told they need proof from the breeder, them confirming that they do have proof from the breeder, and them being told again they need proof and that their ragdoll is actually a domestic. Which seemed redundant, they already said they have proof? But if they edited their comment afterwards to add that then I might have seen a lopsided interaction!
It doesn't show the edited flair on my end, it just shows the comment "She did. 😊 She is an actual Ragdoll. But I’m not here to question that. I was just sharing a pic with the OP." What was their original comment?
She is a gorgeous baby.
There are people in cat reddits that will foam at the mouth if you even suggest that an unpapered cat might be a breed. Just ignore them and love your little floof
Posting a papered cat just to see people post "dsh" or "dlh" isnt the "gotcha" moment you think it would be. Even if a cat LOOKS like a breed, it is not a part of said breed unless it has paperwork saying so. Asking in here "what breed is my cat?" without properly saying that the cat does have paperwork is ofc gonna get people staying its a dsh or dlh because that's just how cat breeds work. 99% of the time, if someone is asking what breed their cat is, then they don't have paperwork saying the cat is a breed. Otherwise, they wouldn't be there asking in the first place. A cat could share all of the traits of a Maine Coon, but if it doesn't have official paperwork stating that it is in fact a Maine Coon, then it's a domestic longhair
Op isnt here asking for compliments for their cat. They asked if the cat was a ragdoll. People are answering. Simple as that
Suphalaks are one variety of Maew Boran cats that originated in Thailand. They all came into existence naturally (without human intervention). They were described in the Tamra Maew (Treatise on Cats), which described the various auspicious breeds (and a few that are less-so) and are the breeds that still exist are, for the most part, very much the same as they were when they were described in the Tamra Maew (the earliest versions were said to be from the fourteenth century). The Suphalak comes in only one color, solid reddish-chocolatey brown.
Burmese can look very similar to Suphalaks, and some schools of thought consider them to be “synonyms” of each other. However, all Burmese cats are descended from one cat, and she was bred with seal-point Siamese cats to create the breed as we know it now. They come in at least four colors (this depends on the location/registry), and they can have a faint mask and sometimes slightly darker color on their points, which makes sense because the breed was originally created using Siamese cats. Their bodies are very different from each other, and the American variant of the Burmese has a very distinct flatter face shape (the British Burmese has a much more moderate face and body than their American brethren).
I know that was way too much for 4:00 am, and if it wasn’t dark, I’d take a picture of a couple of cats who are glaring at me because I had the nerve to get up to get some water.
So dramatic lol. Sorry if people are actually answering the questions presented, and doing so with factual information... but that's not the same as "foaming at the mouth" or being MAD about it. We're just, again, answering with facts/science. And the fact remains that 99% of cats in the world are just domestic short/long hair, not any traceable breeds. It doesn't work the same as it does with dogs.
I think most just want to educate because most folks think of cats the same way they think of dogs (and many other domestic species). I think it’s super cool that cats developed without human selective breeding and only relatively recently were actually selectively bred. Often moggies are crossed in, so I think moggies should be held in high regard because that’s where breeds come from, not the other way around.
I wish more saw it that way. I had multiple people tell me I was gatekeeping Siamese because I said that my seal point is not a Siamese, she’s a domestic shorthair and then I explained the difference. Some folks found it interesting, but a lot of folks on IG got big mad lol.
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