Breed(s) And Color Pattern?

[tuliprox]

I'm curious as to what breed(s) our new baby girl looks like she might be! Also curious as to what her color and coat pattern are considered to be. I see the silver striped tabby I think... but she also seems to have some light orange on her paws? We just picked her up from the shelter and was just curious since she's so cute!

 

[lutece]

She looks like a blue tabby to me in these pictures, but it would be helpful to see a picture of the tabby pattern on her side, and some larger/clearer pictures of her head. It looks like her tail is a bit fluffy? How old is she?

 

[tuliprox]

I'll try to get some more pics in a bit. She is a little fluffier than most short haired cats I've personally seen. The shelter thinks she's about 3 months old

 

[tuliprox]

Here's a few more pictures

 

[tuliprox]

Fur pulled back

 

[war&wisdom]

Could you get a pic of her tail? She's so so cute.

 

[lutece]

It's hard to tell from the pictures if she is going to be a longhair or shorthair; you might have to wait and see on that. The picture of her tail looks a bit like a longhair, though. Assuming she turns out to be a longhair, I would describe her from these pictures as a blue mackerel tabby domestic longhair. She is a pretty girl!

Although it is possible that she could be a torbie (a tortoiseshell tabby), I am not seeing obvious cream tabby patches on her in these pictures. The blue tabby color does have a beige-cream background, which may be what you are noticing on her paws.

In the picture where you part her hair, I see that it's lighter at the base, but it looks beige or gray rather than bright white, is that correct? Lots of blue or blue tabby cats have a lighter colored undercoat... a silver tabby would have a white section at the base of the hairs, not light gray or beige.

 

[tuliprox]

Yes, I believe it is more beige rather than a true white. Oh okay, thanks for the info! This is my first cat (my fiance's 3rd I believe), so this is all still new to me . I'll try to get another pic of her tail after work tonight, and some pictures of her in general in better lighting. The lighting I had her in last night seemed to kind of skew her coloring slightly opposed to the pics I took at the shelter when we were filling out the paperwork.

 

[tuliprox]

If she did happen to be a purebred or mixed breed, do you know what breed(s) she could be, or is that not a possible guess to tell?

 

[lutece]

She doesn't have appear to have obvious features that indicate specific breed ancestry. Unlike dogs, almost all cats are simply domestic cats. Cat breeding is a relatively recent human hobby, so purebred and mixed breed cats make up only a tiny percentage of all cats.