It appears that one of the cats we adopted from a shelter is a pedigree breed.

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We adopted two cats some months back, a topic I've discussed in this forum previously, a mother and son. The mother is obese and her son is a juvenile delinquent, but we love him anyway.

My wife was poking around for what to do cat obesity (which we're slowly managing). She came across a picture of a pedigree cat, a British Shorthair, a breed generally gray in color, think body mass, and striking yellow-orange eyes:



British Shorthair Cat: Characteristics and Care.

The picture is almost identical with our cat Kiki, with white paws, a little bit more white around the neck. (Most British shorthairs are pure grey, but many look like Kiki.

(Her son is clearly a mixed breed, but he has his mother's striking eyes.)

We have no idea how Kiki ended up on the streets of Newark, NJ, pregnant with her son, who is now our second cat Harry, our juvenile delinquent who has confused himself with a flying squirrel. She may have escaped from a breeder situation, a kitten mill. We just don't know, but her history, given to us by the shelter made it clear that she was picked up on the streets of Newark before being transferred down to our local shelter, where she lived with her son, in a cage for a few months.

For the record, I'm not into pedigreed pets, and never would have bought one, but we do love Kiki, a very sweet cat with a wonderful personality, which is apparently a feature of the breed, consistent with who she is.