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.
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.
❤️🐶
Ginger.
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?
My dogs are purebred results of hot street corner love and 100% dog. Dunno what’s inside, they’re a good boy and girl. My little shelter kids.
Dog brand dog.
Ha yes, the yellow no-name breed.
It’s a dog brand dog world.
that cat literally looks exactly the same as mine what
I’ll care about cat breeds when my cat starts showing that she cares about anything.
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”
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.
Good! That means not too many breeders are interested in fucking up their health for the sake of some stupid feature.
Enough are though. Those poor munchkins are supper popular. And rag doll cats are bred to be almost idiots because some assholes thought it was cutentonhave a breed whose most distinct behave is flooping stupidly on the floor
What’s D, S, L and H?
Domestic Short/Long Hair
This is so true :blobcat_bigsob:
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.
Is that from Kenshi?
Dog from Half Life 2
Half life 2
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.
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.
When I was a kid we had a dog named Monkey
Well we learn how to name stuff the more we do. My third cat is Tina and my 4th cat is bean in my language, so a step forward.
I had a “cat” cat too, but nothing to say in my defense. And I named the cat who came in my yard but wasn’t mine “big nose” because he had a big nose.
my friend had a cat named bird. I’m sure it’s not only but i always found it funny
Is that Jambo?
jschlatt
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).
Mine’s a bastard too. (though no mixed origins)
Mine’s too. (cus he act like one)
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”.
There’s also spicy cats, which include wild cats and big cats.
Spicy cats are kind of scary tho
Especially when they’re not very far away from you without a cage or glass between it and you
i’m pretty sure screamy baby is a cat breed
Most of those aren’t breeds, they’re patterns. A calico can have tabbies and torties in the same litter
/whoosh
I think the tactical issue should have been the giant flashing neon sign.
No I’m pretty sure Standard Issue is a breed
Calico!!! tuxedo plus orange
um and torties i guess
The Fabulous Staredycat Sisters thank you for righting a great wrong by including them! Now they can relax again 😉
I’m not typically someone who squees over photos of other people’s pets, but those are two beautiful cats
Thanks, I think so too 🥰
No problem!
Smoke cats!
I have a standard issue cat that has a bit of orange in her. She is super chill and affectionate, loves being held and is quite vocal when she wants something (uppies or treats). Although she doesn’t really exhibit any other traits of being an orange cat.
Don’t forget the recently discovered Salmiak!
I’m pretty sure that’s where alf is from
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.
Moggie.
“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.
“Mongrel” is the word, but I’ve barely heard it used.
Because that term can’t really be applied to cats. They’re either a particular breed or they’re not. There’s no cat equivalent of a labradoodle. Over here we have “European shorthair” as the most prevalent breed and “European house cat” as a fallback for anything that isn’t a breed.
I’ve only ever heard that used about people, as a slur.
It’s a slur when used in regards to people specificallybecause it’s referring to people using language normally meant for animals
Based on a dogs shape and coat, you can pretty easily determine the breed families in it. It’s important to know since dog breeds are much more diverse due to their history with humans around the world—most have jobs bred into them. So it’s still good to know if your dog has breeding in it that thrives on exercise or fetch jobs or that sort of thing. Most of those little dogs are for hunting small vermin and are savage fuckers, for example.
Cats it’s mostly one size fits all with a random roll on personality stats.
Moggy can be used for cats the way mutt is for dogs, but I think it might be more common in the UK? I don’t really hear it in the US, maybe cat breeders use it.
But yeah, for vets and rescues it’s just domestic short hair/long hair (sometimes medium hair).
Huh, interesting. To me, “moggy” is just a slang term for a cat, e.g. “who’s a pretty moggy?”. But also, I’ve only once met a cat that was of a particular breed, so perhaps the general nature of “moggy” for me stems from that. (For context, I am from the UK)
it’s just domestic short hair/long hair (sometimes medium hair).
Also: domestic longish hair, domestic asymmetric bob (AKA Karen cat), and Domestic mullet.
Domestic short hair sounds like the aristocracy thought mutt was too common
Domestic shorthair is the equivalent of mutt or so I was told! Coat color is its own thing. So I have a domestic shorthair that’s piebald, my mother has a domestic shorthair that has a tortie coat.
