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I’ll care about cat breeds when my cat starts showing that she cares about anything.
I used to know a woman who would make up names like "North American yodel-hound" or "white-toed chipmunk dog" as the breed for her dogs.
I had an African giant bassist hound
Are they available for jam sessions?
My mother has been searching for one of those since her first run in with one the 70s.
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oh you don't know oranges. It may be a generic name but they have a very specific set of skills lol
Dog owners:
- What a beautiful dog
- His name is mister leopold dogus the third, I bought from the only breeder on north hemisphere and it cost me 168k dolars
Cat owners:
- What a cute cat
- it followed me home from the trash bins, i cal him cat
it followed me home from the trash bins, i cal him cat
Two of my adopted cat are being named "cat" in my language.
In my defence, vet need a name and i couldn't think of one.
My adopted little girl is still listed as Popoki in her adoption paperwork. I think that is close to Cat in Hawaiian.
We are firmly landlocked in the Midwest.
The vets that I have experienced tend to use the human's surname as the pet's surname. If that's the case with you also, it is humorous to imagine a cat's chart basically saying "Cat [your last name]"
I named my first ferret "Girl" and her sister "Yu". One of my turtles is named "Turtle". My creativity knows no bounds.
I did name my dog Sophie though, so one out of four could be worse.
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We have a big, white, mixed breed dog. People ask us all the time if she's a Great Pyrenees, an English Cream, or what have you. She's a dog. 100% pure dog.
That’s the best kind of dog.
one of the dogs of all time
We had a farmyard crossed dog that lived for almost 17 years I called him a car-puk-eh because of his lifelong affliction with motion sickness.
Used to work at an animal shelter, and I can count on one hand the number of cats we'd ever had that were anything other than "D(S/L)H (color and pattern)" or "(pattern) Siamese"
What's D, S, L and H?
Domestic Short/Long Hair
At the shelter I volunteered at, they'd occasionally get a purebred, but they'd still advertise them as DLH (or whatever) because they didn't want to attract the type of adopter who cares about the breed.
Cat chads press F
not all dog owners
You could put 20 cats in front of me and put a gun to my head and I couldn't name a single one.
With a gun to my head I'd struggle to say my date of birth correctly.
Not even Garfield?
Well let's see, known cat breeds:
Orange, Tuxedo, Standard Issue, Void, Siamese (my parents had a flame point siamese that was weird), naked wrinkly cat, Fluffball.
Think that about covers it.
Edit: Oh yes, Torties and Calicos, and I forgot one I love: Tactical Issue! Some people think they're just sneaky cats. Nope! Grey and white stripes that blend in well with urban environments
Russian blue! AKA "grey cat".
i'm pretty sure screamy baby is a cat breed
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A lot of people asks if my cat is a maine coon, because big and fluffy –but he doesn't have other features. I always answers that he's a bastard (meaning mixed origins).
Ginger.
Seriously though, why do the yanks call ginger cats "orange"?
On the other hand, I don't even know if there's a word for "mutt" with cats the way there is for generic mixed dogs. When I last moved and got a new vet, and they asked me what breed my cats were and I said I wasn't sure as they didn't have any "distinctive" breed and were shelter adopts, they pretty much just said "Domestic shorthair it is then". Not sure if that's something particular that's just common or a catch-all term.
"Mongrel" is the word, but I've barely heard it used.
Pretty confident "domestic shorthair" is the "John Doe" of cat breeds.
I’ve been calling that handsome little feral gremlin, asshole, jerk-ass, mooch best buddy of mine a mongrel for 22 years now, I had no idea I was just being accurate.
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This is so true :blobcat_bigsob:
that cat literally looks exactly the same as mine what
I have a small mixed breed who is apparently Boston terrier, beagle, and pug. I wanted to do a doggy DNA test, but my ex said he is just 100% pure badness.
My friend has a munchkin void. It can go from purr to hiss in a fraction of a second.
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