Can anybody help determine what breed our kitten is?

[fpalomino01]

Hello! This is Sammi and she is about a month old. We found her and she is adorable. Now I read all about breeds, how she isn't gonna be a pure. Id just be nice to know. Sammi is very playful, and talks A LOT. When she's happy or sad she'll let you know. She is a creamy brown-grey color with dark grey-black points, but white and black paws. She has blue eyes.

Possible Siamese mix? I don't know

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• fpalomino01
• Jun 5, 2013

 

[StefanZ]

You can possibly say she is a Snowshoe look alike.  Snowshoe were bred in the 60ties, with old type siamese as genetic base...

But what she IS, is more difficult. Teh point gene is recessive. if two point gene carriers, with whatever look, do get a kitten together who thus gets double point gene, voilá, out comes a pointed kitten among litter mates with normal outlook, him often a look alike of an old type siamese...

Hope you are a good Ma and Dad to him, he is pretty young. Kittens his age are usually still with his mom and sibling at least one month more...

Tx for saving this life!

Good luck!

 

[maewkaew]

   What she is is an adorable little Seal Point and White  "Domestic Shorthair" kitten who got 2 copies of the pointed gene,  one from each parent.  plus a gene for white spotting.  

Another way to say her color/ pattern is Seal Mitted. 

Often when people see a pointed cat they think it must be a breed  or must at least have a large amount of a specific breed. But there are many pointed cats who don't have any  recent ancestry of any particular breed   and it would be pretty hard to tell if she might have , for example,  a Ragdoll dad or  Birman grandma or Himalyan  great grandmother or  Siamese great great grandfather.  

On the other hand , this is one of very few patterns or colors that can be almost certainly traced back to some  ancestry of a breed  -- at least if you're in a Western country.   The pointed pattern came from Southeast Asian cats and got to other places via SIamese  and their descendants breeding with the local cats in other countries to which Siamese were imported and became popular. 

 

but having this pattern doesn't tell you anything about how recent that Siamese ancestry was --  and in most cases probably not very recent,  since over the past 100+ years the gene for this pattern has got widely spread through the general random-breeding domestic cat population, so there are now many pointed DSHs and DLHs  who  got the gene passed down from some very distant pedigreed ancestors  

So there's lots of cats that are like 99.999% "domestic"   . 

Also ,  it might have got passed down via another breed that got it from Siamese ,  like Himalayan Persians, or Ragdolls, or Birmans  or Bengals ( in the Snow Bengals) or Cornish Rex or  Tonkinese.... (etc.)  

No matter her ancestry,  she is cute,  and is a lucky kitten that you found her. 

 Did she seem tame when you found her?  if so she was either lost from a home or was dumped.  Did you try to check to see if anyone is looking for her?  

Re Snowshoe, the pedigree Snowshoes are actually quite rare.  There are a lot  more pointed & white non-pedigree cats than there are Snowshoes.  It never really took off as a breed.  partly because they at first made the standard so strict as to the placement of the white markings , that it was difficult to breed cats that met the standard.   ( They wanted it to be both a white triangle on the face -- perfectly symmetrical -- AND white feet.