Help! Is my cat a Ragdoll or a Himalayan?

[jefferd18]

It doesn't work that way... it goes in the opposite direction actually! It's fairly common for a pointed domestic longhair to have a superficial resemblance to the Ragdoll breed, but that doesn't mean that pointed domestic longhairs must have Ragdoll ancestors... it means that Ragdolls have domestic longhair ancestors

The Ragdoll breed was originally developed from domestic longhairs of moderate type. Today's Ragdolls are a little more massive than the average domestic longhair, have a very plush coat, and have a slightly shorter face with smaller ears and sweeter expression, but this was primarily accomplished through selective breeding from the original domestic longhair breeding stock. Everything necessary to make a cat that looks like a Ragdoll is still out there in the domestic cat gene pool.

She is most likely a mixed breed as the result of cross breeding. She has way too many physical attributes of a Siamese to suggest that there is some in her ancestry.

 

[lutece]

Unlike dogs, most cats are not the result of "cross breeding" between breeds. Almost all cats are simply the descendants of many, many generations of domestic cats without any particular breeds in their ancestry.

The Siamese breed contributed the colorpoint gene to the domestic cat gene pool many years ago, but that is just a single gene. The colorpoint gene affects eye color and coat color. Other than that, I don't see any Siamese influence in the original pictures in this thread. What physical attributes are you referring to?

 

[mackiemac]

What does that cat "look like"? It "looks like" a Ragdoll. What "IS" that cat?

Gorgeous!