Is my cat a tabby cat or a Chinese li hua

[Ayden Gilleo]

I would really like to know if my cat is a tabby cat or a chinese li hua. He is around 20 lbs and likes to just lay places. He is my best friend and we chill together sum times.That's basically all I have to say lol.

 

[Maurey]

Black (brown) Brocken mackerel tabby domestic shorthair. No specific breed or mix of breeds. Tabby is a pattern, not a breed

 

[Strawberry Purrs]

Probably a tabby, looks more like one, and Chinese li hua cats are very rare.

 

[GoldyCat]

Unless you live in China it's extremely unlikely that you have a li hua cat.

Without a known history he's considered a Domestic Shorthair (DSH). His color/pattern is as Maurey said, Brown (broken) Mackerel Tabby. Yes, he's a big cat, but that is not an indication of breed. Domestic cats come in all shapes and sizes.

What is his name? I'd love to see more pictures of him.

 

[Maurey]

Unless you live in China it's extremely unlikely that you have a li hua cat.

To add to this, there are only 7 remaining Li Hua cats in the USA, to my knowledge, and all of them are neutered and in or near their teenage years — the oldest is around 16. The breed was never advanced by the CFA (attempted ~2010-2015, only around 10 altogether ever existed in the USA), so all the people who had imported cats ended up neutering them.

 

[Meowmee]

I would really like to know if my cat is a tabby cat or a chinese li hua. He is around 20 lbs and likes to just lay places. He is my best friend and we chill together sum times.That's basically all I have to say lol.

I think he is a dsh brown tabby, what a beauty too If you are in China he could have some ancestry if he has an unknown background because the Dragon Li or Chinese Li Hua was a natural breed there for thousands of years believed to have originated from the Chinese mountain cat, which has not been proven or disproven.
I did a collage for comparison. They are described as having a diamond shaped head with a smaller chin, but rounded at the sides, green, yellow and brown almond shaped eyes, tipped ears, a ring on the tail, a strong, muscular body, and a striped tabby pattern with a special golden brown color.

 

[StefanZ]

I just want to add, your tabby seems to have enough of spots some will count him as a spotted tabby, not just a broken mackerel. Sometimes its not easy to decide. Which it really is, is important only for breeders; whom must know what exact gene their cat has... And for these participating in shows, weree its good to have a proper description.

 

[Maurey]

Sometimes its not easy to decide.

Spine lines. Solid lines means broken mackerel, broken/spotted lines mean spotted tabby. With these photos, hard to tell, but I can see a small bit of his spine lines in one of the photos. Spotted tabby is also pretty uncommon in randombred cats.

 

[cataholic07]

Looks to be a DSH to me. At 20lbs he might be overweight, if you can't feel the spine or ribs he is and should be placed on a diet. Being overweight he wouldn't want to move too much as it is painful on the joints, especially for older cats who get arthritis.