More cats... what are they? Manx?

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Remember that not all short-tailed cats have a genetic cause for their appearance... for example, this is a cat I had a long time ago whose tail was partly chewed off by his mother at birth (perhaps because she thought it was the umbilical cord).

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What a pretty cat! Unfortunate about the tail, though

It's unlikely that your cats would belong to any specific pedigreed breed. Most cats aren't any breed, and are also not "mixes" of breeds, unlike dogs.

Assuming that your cats' bobtailed phenotype is due to genetics (rather than injury), they might have mutations that are not found in any specific breed at this time, or they might have an ancestor from some specific breed. Since almost all bobtail mutations are dominant, it would be sufficient to have a single ancestor, and it could be any number of generations distant from your cats. Even if your cat had a Japanese Bobtail ancestor (for example), if the ancestor is very distant, you wouldn't necessarily expect to see any other Japanese Bobtail breed features.

It's really cool to learn how cats and dogs differ in the breed department! That makes sense, though. Since I'm pretty sure Kano was born and raised to a stray/feral family, it would make sense that he'd have a very mixed appearance