What Breed Are My Cats!?

Do any one have any idea what my cats bread are

  • First one khao manee!?

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  • Second one bangal or savannah!?

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I think the first one is khao manee and the second one is bangal or savannah but the third one i have no idea what it is!!
If any one think or know the correct answer for what bread my cat are please tell me thanks
 

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If you didnt collected them being astray after a catastrophe when people evacuated in great hurry forced to abandon their pets, [or some similiar bad occasion] the overhelming probability is your lovely cats are domestic moggies.... However their intriquing looks. Especielly the third one looks quite peculiar.
After all, over 95% of all cats are domestics. Just 5% are purebreds or fresh descendants mixes.

I mean, owners of pedigreed cats usually know what cat they do have, even if they perhaps didnt got proper paperwork.
So asking the question hints its almost surely a domestic.

Even if we DO occasionally recognize a supposed moggie as being a purebred or almost purebred... A feast for me!
 

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I would describe your first cat as an odd-eyed brown tabby and white domestic shorthair. When a cat is mostly white and has color only on the head and tail, the pattern may be called "van pattern" after the Turkish Van, although the pattern itself doesn't indicate Turkish Van ancestry; it simply indicates that the cat probably has two copies of the white spotting gene, inherited from both parents.

The Khao Manee cat is a solid white cat with Thai origin. Solid white is caused by a different gene called the "dominant white" gene. Your cat doesn't resemble a Khao Manee. Were you thinking about that breed because your cat is odd-eyed (has two different eye colors)? Odd eyes can occur in any cat with white spotting (particularly if they have a lot of white on them, like your cat), as well as cats with dominant white.

I would describe your second cat as a brown broken mackerel tabby domestic shorthair. "Broken mackerel" is the tabby pattern where stripes are broken up into spots. It is a common tabby pattern in the domestic cat. Cats with spots are common in the domestic cat population; spots do not indicate Bengal ancestry.

I would describe your third cat as a brown broken mackerel tabby and white domestic shorthair. The third cat has smaller, freckle-like spots, which could be just normal variation on the broken mackerel tabby pattern, or might indicate that he/she is heterozygous for ticked tabby. Sometimes a cat that is heterozygous for ticked tabby can have small freckle-like spots, or thin pencil stripes.

I am not seeing specific breed influence in your cats. Most cats are not any particular breed, but that doesn't make them any less special. Are your cats related to one another?
 
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Actually i found them in street the second and third one are 6 month and i found them when they were 2 month and the first one i found him behind my door it look like the last owner throw him out and he was sprayed even so now they are part of mg family and i just wanted to know what type they are!!
 

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I would describe your first cat as an odd-eyed brown tabby and white domestic shorthair. When a cat is mostly white and has color only on the head and tail, the pattern may be called "van pattern" after the Turkish Van, although the pattern itself doesn't indicate Turkish Van ancestry; it simply indicates that the cat probably has two copies of the white spotting gene, inherited from both parents.

The Khao Manee cat is a solid white cat with Thai origin. Solid white is caused by a different gene called the "dominant white" gene. Your cat doesn't resemble a Khao Manee. Were you thinking about that breed because your cat is odd-eyed (has two different eye colors)? Odd eyes can occur in any cat with white spotting (particularly if they have a lot of white on them, like your cat), as well as cats with dominant white.

I would describe your second cat as a brown broken mackerel tabby domestic shorthair. "Broken mackerel" is the tabby pattern where stripes are broken up into spots. It is a common tabby pattern in the domestic cat. Cats with spots are common in the domestic cat population; spots do not indicate Bengal ancestry.

I would describe your third cat as a brown broken mackerel tabby and white domestic shorthair. The third cat has smaller, freckle-like spots, which could be just normal variation on the broken mackerel tabby pattern, or might indicate that he/she is heterozygous for ticked tabby. Sometimes a cat that is heterozygous for ticked tabby can have small freckle-like spots, or thin pencil stripes.

I am not seeing specific breed influence in your cats. Most cats are not any particular breed, but that doesn't make them any less special. Are your cats related to one another?

By any chance can you tell me her breed to is is pure Persian or mix bcz beside he face her hair are long but i did not saw any persian like that!?
 

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By any chance can you tell me her breed to is is pure Persian or mix bcz beside he face her hair are long but i did not saw any persian like that!?
This last one does look like a Persian, either an old style (dollface), a pet quality, or a mix.
 

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By any chance can you tell me her breed to is is pure Persian or mix bcz beside he face her hair are long but i did not saw any persian like that!?
She’s gorgeous! And so are your other kitties! I think she definitely looks like either a Persian, or she at least has some recent Persian ancestry. She can’t technically be called a purebred Persian without having pedigree papers, but if you’d like to describe her as a Persian to your friends, I’d say that’s fine. As for your other pretty kitties, I think that they could have some Oriental ancestry, because of their wedge-shaped heads, large ears, and slender bodies. Unless you live in a warm climate, where the landrace cats have that body type.
 
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She’s gorgeous! And so are your other kitties! I think she definitely looks like either a Persian, or she at least has some recent Persian ancestry. She can’t technically be called a purebred Persian without having pedigree papers, but if you’d like to describe her as a Persian to your friends, I’d say that’s fine. As for your other pretty kitties, I think that they could have some Oriental ancestry, because of their wedge-shaped heads, large ears, and slender bodies. Unless you live in a warm climate, where the landrace cats have that body type.

I live in U.A.E so it is hot and the 2 kitten are from street i found the odd eyes behind my door he was banging his head on door so he can enter my home he thought i was his owner and the Persian i found him in the worst possible way bcz when they throw her out from home she was cover in her bathroom so we shaved her hair then keept her
 

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I live in U.A.E so it is hot and the 2 kitten are from street i found the odd eyes behind my door he was banging his head on door so he can enter my home he thought i was his owner and the Persian i found him in the worst possible way bcz when they throw her out from home she was cover in her bathroom so we shaved her hair then keept her
Thanks for rescuing your cats! People like you make such a big difference for the cat community!

Since you live in the UAE, the two kittens would be called Arabian Maus, the landrace breed in the UAE, and it is also considered a formal breed.

Arabian Mau - Wikipedia
 
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Thanks for rescuing your cats! People like you make such a big difference for the cat community!

Since you live in the UAE, the two kittens would be called Arabian Maus, the landrace breed in the UAE, and it is also considered a formal breed.

Arabian Mau - Wikipedia
Is it same for my odd eye color!? Do you think he have siamese ancestry and as the other member said he has van pattern but what is the main breed i would like to know i said Khao Manee bcz he is big and have fluffy tail but not long and his teeth and face is like them
 
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She’s gorgeous! And so are your other kitties! I think she definitely looks like either a Persian, or she at least has some recent Persian ancestry. She can’t technically be called a purebred Persian without having pedigree papers, but if you’d like to describe her as a Persian to your friends, I’d say that’s fine. As for your other pretty kitties, I think that they could have some Oriental ancestry, because of their wedge-shaped heads, large ears, and slender bodies. Unless you live in a warm climate, where the landrace cats have that body type.

For her once i was searching some that look a little like her came up and they are called chinchilla persian cat maybe bcz they have really longer hair Persian are hair are shorter than her i just want to know my cat breed bcz i want to know how long there lifespan are!?
 

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As you live in UAE, the arabian coutries, the usual statistics changes...

Some of your cats may even be representants or mixes of the Arabian mau, although I dont know about them very much.
 

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For her once i was searching some that look a little like her came up and they are called chinchilla persian cat maybe bcz they have really longer hair Persian are hair are shorter than her i just want to know my cat breed bcz i want to know how long there lifespan are!?
If you google search “cameo Persian”, you’ll see some that look similar to your girl in color. And, within a cat breed, there will still be some variation in coat, which is why you might be seeing some pictures of Persians online whose fur looks shorter than your girl’s (either because it’s a bad picture, they have their summer coat, or their fur length isn’t as long as the “ideal” Persian). If you go to the website of a breed registry, the Persians pictured there have long, luxurious coats, like your kitty: Breed Profile: The Persian

For your odd-eyed cat, I would say that she is also an Arabian Mau. Because Arabian Maus are the “natural” cat breed for your area, they have a wide gene pool, and so you can see a wide variety of looks, including eye color. She does have the van pattern, which is usually associated with the Turkish Van breed, although many different types of cats can come in that coloring.
 
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