Lynx point siamese? Maybe a ragamese?

[bluekittysmom]

Shelter says she's tabby/siamese, my sister swears she's got some ragdool in her blood. What do you think?

 

[KittyCat_chitchat]

The pedantic response is that without pedigree papers, she's a domestic shorthair. However, given that, as far as I know, the pointed gene only came into cat populations in the West through interbreeding with Siamese and other similar breeds, she's likely to have Siamese in her background somewhere. She certainly isn't a purebred Siamese as they never have white patches on them. Ragdolls do, so that's where the ragdoll resemblance comes in.

To me at least, her build and the distribution of white markings make her look more like a snowshoe, but they're a bit rarer. It's possible she has ragdoll or snowshoe in there, but she is just as likely to be a random bred cat who's inherited the genes for both points and white markings. Whatever the case, she is a beautiful animal and a perfect snowshoe lookalike!

 

[bluekittysmom]

Never heard of a snowshoe, and thank you!