Could you help me find the breed of my cat?

[cainuke]

Here is my cat Lilly, I have had her for since 2001-2002ish.
For years my family has tried to guess the breed but we have hit dead ends.
Any ideas?

She has the temperament of a Russian Blue but she clearly isn't one from what I can tell. I also noticed she sits kinda funny. When she sits, her spine is EXACTLY 90* degrees to her tail (when its pointed away from her body) until theres a curve to her shoulder blades.

(Example Below)

Kind of like that except not as cartoonist

and straighter.

Here are pics of her.

ACTION SHOT!

 

[missymotus]

No specific breed, like most cats she's a domestic (and a very pretty one

)

 

[sarahp]

I would say a regular Domestic Shorthair as the type of cat (it's not a breed, just the name for the run-of-the-mill cat), and the colour is grey tabby.

 

[missymotus]

Originally Posted by sarahp

the colour is grey tabby.

Blue

I didn't comment on colour as I can't tell properly from those pics, but I wondered if she wasn't a blue tortie tabby seems to be splotches of colour in the second pic.

 

[goldenkitty45]

Blue Tabbys have a petina shade that is sorta an oatmeal color in the undercoat. But don't feel bad - it sometimes does look like "cream". My first HHP was a blue mackerel tabby and I thought he was a male blue cream!

To the OP - no specific breed but a lovely Blue Mackerel Tabby domestic shorthair.

 

[missymotus]

I'm very familiar with blue undercoats, I have a close friend who breeds blue Aby's.

Looks more like splotches of colour in one pic, not an undercoat. But as I said the pics are not clear enough.

 

[Asteria]

Like said, DSH.
Just wanted to say how pretty she is.

 

[StefanZ]

Like the others said, a nice DSH.

But if you necessarily want to see traces of a breed in her, it may be a Russian mix yes.

The face on the middle picture is almost exactly like of our younger male... Even the slightly angry look is there so typical especielly for the males of RB (Scandinavian type in any case). (they arent angry, they take on that look when they look lovingly on you

- a very friendly and pleasant breed btw).

 

[carolina]

Are her eyes blue? I see I little siamese in her, but I could be wrong...

 

[cainuke]

Thank you all so much! I have leaned a great deal just by lurking the threads!


Her eyes go from green(Around the iris?) and then go outwards slowly to yellow.