Guides

Each guide answers one question completely, using checks you can make in seconds on the water.

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  Do Cat DNA Tests Actually Tell You the Breed?

  The health screening is genuinely useful. The breed percentages on a mixed cat are close to meaningless, and the reason is how cat breeds were made.

  3 min read

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  Pointed and Blue-Eyed: Siamese, Ragdoll or Birman?

  Colourpoints and blue eyes are shared by several breeds and plenty of moggies. Size, coat and feet separate them in one look.

  3 min read

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  The Scottish Fold's Ears and What They Cost

  The mutation that folds the ear malforms cartilage everywhere else too. Every cat with folded ears develops painful degenerative joint disease.

  3 min read

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  Your Grey Cat Is Probably Not a Russian Blue

  Three grey breeds exist and all three are uncommon. The eye colour and the coat texture separate them from the grey moggy, which is what most grey cats are.

  3 min read

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  Calico, Tortie, Tabby and Tuxedo Are Not Breeds

  They describe how the colour is arranged, and they occur across many breeds and in most cats of none. Here is what each one actually means.

  3 min read

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  Is It a Maine Coon, or Just a Big Fluffy Cat?

  Size is not the test. A Maine Coon has a squared muzzle and a rectangular frame, and most large fluffy cats have neither.

  3 min read

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  Most Cats Are Not a Breed

  Around nine in ten cats have no breed at all. Calico, tabby and tortoiseshell are coat patterns, and a domestic shorthair is the correct answer, not a failure.

  3 min read