Hi Any Idea What Breed My Cat Is Please?

This little baby kitten appears to be a brown tabby longhair. She is so very young that it's difficult to say if she resembles any particular breed. I hope she is still with her mom and litter mates? Do you have a picture of her mom (and dad if possible)?

Domestic Long Hair Tabby. What a cutie!

She's adorable and will grow into a beautiful cat.

She’s so adorable! I would describe her as a brown classic tabby Domestic Longhair. When she gets a little older, it will be easier to tell what breed she might resemble.

lutece said:

This little baby kitten appears to be a brown tabby longhair. She is so very young that it's difficult to say if she resembles any particular breed. I hope she is still with her mom and litter mates? Do you have a picture of her mom (and dad if possible)?

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Hi yes shes is still with her mum and tge rest if the litter. Her mother is a 3 legged stray cat that I rescued because she was pregnant and I was very concerned for her wellbeing. I found it odd that this little kitten was the only fluffy long haired kitten out of the litter.

lutece said:

This little baby kitten appears to be a brown tabby longhair. She is so very young that it's difficult to say if she resembles any particular breed. I hope she is still with her mom and litter mates? Do you have a picture of her mom (and dad if possible)?

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I have no idea who the father is. She is a very elderly cat the vet said she has lost most her teeth. Once she has stopped feeding I will get her sprayed. She is a very lovely cat

Thanks for posting those! I would describe mama cat as a brown patched tabby (also known as torbie) domestic shorthair.

Longhair is a recessive gene, so it's not so surprising that you would see a longhair kitten in a litter with a shorthair mom and shorthair littermates. It just means that both mom and dad carry the recessive longhair gene. Dad might have been longhaired or shorthaired.

When you part the hair on mama cat and her kitten, is it white at the base of each hair? The background on mom's tabby pattern is fairly light in color, so I wonder if she might be a silver/smoke.

Syedkhaled89 said:

She is a very elderly cat the vet said she has lost most her teeth.

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That doesn't mean she's "elderly"; it just means she's lost teeth, probably due to gum disease, since she was a stray. The stray I adopted several years back had terrible breath because she had developed gum disease after a fairly short time outdoors (she was housetrained and spayed, but young, so she hadn't been out very long). The vet said that she might need teeth pulled, but she never did, fortunately.

It's risky for a cat to become pregnant beyond the age of 5 or so.

war&wisdom said:

It's rare for a cat to become pregnant beyond the age of 5 or so.

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. . .granted, I'm no expert on unspayed cats. But I don't think this is true. I know someone who had an unspayed cat who lived to be 20. She said that cat had 2 litters a year until she was 5, then she only had one litter a year until she was 12, and then she finally stopped getting pregnant.

Of course, average lifespan for outdoor cats is around 5 years, so that definitely skews the data a bit.

So mama cat could be oldish, but more likely she just has a bad mouth. Poor girl! At least now she'll get proper care.

I'd say the mama cat is a classic torbie. In my experience, the classic pattern seems to make reds redder. . .perhaps it's just the cats I know but it seems like that. The kitten looks to be a classic tabby longhair. Are the other kittens classic tabbies (bullseye/swirl, not stripey) too?

Willowy said:

. . .granted, I'm no expert on unspayed cats. But I don't think this is true. I know someone who had an unspayed cat who lived to be 20. She said that cat had 2 litters a year until she was 5, then she only had one litter a year until she was 12, and then she finally stopped getting pregnant.

Of course, average lifespan for outdoor cats is around 5 years, so that definitely skews the data a bit.

So mama cat could be oldish, but more likely she just has a bad mouth. Poor girl! At least now she'll get proper care.

I'd say the mama cat is a classic torbie. In my experience, the classic pattern seems to make reds redder. . .perhaps it's just the cats I know but it seems like that. The kitten looks to be a classic tabby longhair. Are the other kittens classic tabbies (bullseye/swirl, not stripey) too?

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Sorry, I corrected myself. Pregnancies beyond the age of 5 are considered high-risk, so intentional pregnancies normally don't occur beyond that age, but accidental ones (in strays, of course) could occur later.