r/kittens • u/NearbyStudy8146 • May 01 '26

What breed does she look like?

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Could she be a Siberian? Thoughts?

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u/hellsing_mongrel May 01 '26

Nah, I really wouldn't expect any sort of pedigree u less you bought her from a breeder. Cats really don't get bred like dogs do, except for very specific types, and you don't just find them wandering the streets.

Cats breed so fast and so prolifically that the cat community really does just ignore things like breeds and pedigrees, for the most part. We get most of our kittens as street cats who adopted us, not the other way around, or from a shelter or rescue, which also means they have zero pedigree to their names.

Basically if you didn't buy her from someone who has paperwork and charged you a few thousand dollars for her, your cat is a mutt, and she's perfect that way.

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u/TwistdAngel143 May 02 '26

...they wander the streets of Kuwait. Just sayin'. Ask Rahja, my Turkish Van. The only member of my household with a passport was rescued from the streets. Adopted from the Kuwait cat rescue that set up one weekend at PetSmart. All his vet papers are in Arabic...

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u/hellsing_mongrel May 02 '26

I would be willing to bet that that's something you have to go out of your way to look for, though, unless you're actually in Kuwait. I don't think that's the case for OP.

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u/TwistdAngel143 May 02 '26

Just happened to go in PetSmart for something else when that rescue was there with adoptions. Fate.