I’ve fostered cats and kittens for the local animal welfare shelter, something they like because I have a cat-friendly Siberian Husky to acclimate cats to dogs they must share a home with. Two of my three cats are fosters that I just could not let go to another home.
The vet says most cats brought to the shelter in this area are mostly some particular breed because of all the tourists here who travel with pet cats in their RV’s-my long-haired orange tabby is a lost RV cat, and likely mostly Persian-stocky/cobby, short legs, fur from hell-the Maine Coon was brought to the shelter by a tourist from up north whose wife just went off the rails-he claimed the cat was purebred-he does have the size, long coat, laid back personality and huge paws of the breed-but unlike dogs, cats are just cats, never mind the breeding or lack of it.
Coonies are awesome cats!
With our blue eyed girl, the original owner says the shelter had her labeled as a Siamese mix, but I have a feeling they automatically label any talkative, blue eyed cat as Siamese mix without regard to anything else. She’s clingy and gentle, and goes limp like a Ragdoll...that’s what got our guess. That and her fur is mostly right for Raggie, other than the pantaloons not being quite as luxuriant as a purebred.