Domestic cat breeds

Bramble cat breed - photo credit: Gary Bramlett
Contents - domestic cat breeds Introduction Skip intro - links to cats

This is a spill over list of cat breeds. The breeds might be proposed, experimental, provisional or sometimes alternative names. Most are not recognized unless the name is an old name or alternative name of an established cat breed. This is not always the case, however.

Note: If you've come to this page first, bypassing the home page and want to see a list of more "mainstream" cat breeds, you might like to go to the home page list or if you'd like to see pictures of the cat breeds to guide you through the breeds, please start here: Cat Breeds A-H (this follows on to more).



The individual pages describing the breed explains why, where appropriate the cat breed in question is on the fringes. These breeds are a testament to the desire to create new cat breeds. It seems that an extension to the number of breeds is resisted by some cat assocations such as the CFA, which is, I personally think, sensible. Others, though might disagree.

The fact that I have listed these cat names/breeds (some are alternative names to well known breeds) here and not on the home page is not in anyway meant to be derogatory. They are here for practical reasons. The home page contains links to all the main cat breeds and more. There are many domestic cat breeds. If you want to know what breed of cat you live with, you might like to read this:

What Breed Is My Cat? 
People quite often ask, "what breed is my cat" . This might sound strange but it is possible to answer that question now, with a reasonable degree of success without seeing the cat....

Here is the list of links to domestic cat breeds or proposed etc. breeds, which is currently constantly expanding:

The cats - please go to home page for mainstream breeds

Accicat Abyssinian Bobtail (opens in new window ) Aegean cat (opens in new window ) African Shorthair (opens in new window ) Alaskan Snow cat(opens in new window ) Albino Siamese Algerian cat Alpine Lynx Alpaca cat American Miniature cat American Snughead Antipodean cat  American Blue American Burmese   mainstream breed called the "Burmese" in USA American Cornish Rex American Forest Cat Longhair American Longhair Arctic Curl American Keuda American Polydactyl Cat not a breed in my opinion Arabian Mau Australian Mist Longhair Bagral cat Bahraini Dilmun cat Benedictine cat Bohemian Rex cat  Bramble cat Brazilian Shorthair cat Caracat Celtic Shorthair cat Ceylon cat Cheetoh cat Chestnut Brown cat Chinese White, Dragon Li and Chinese Harlequin Classicat Desert Lynx Dossow cat Dwelf cat European Burmese  mainstream breed - see American Burmese Foldex cat Kanaani cat Karelian Bobtail Mekong Bobtail cat Oregon Rex cat Persian Ticked Poodle cat Puppykat Renegade cat Stone Cougar cat Templecat - Shorthaired Birman Ural Rex Ussuri cat Viverral cat  York Chocolate cat This is an expanding list (April 2009)