what breed is an orange cat

Most orange cats are not a specific breed at all – “orange” (or ginger) is a coat color , and it appears across many different cat breeds and mixed- breed house cats.

Quick Scoop: What breed is an orange cat?

• In most homes, the typical orange cat is just a mixed-breed domestic shorthair or domestic longhair with an orange tabby coat.

• Orange is strongly associated with tabby patterning (stripes, swirls, or spots), so almost every orange cat you see will be some kind of orange tabby.

• Many pedigreed breeds can come in orange/ginger, including:
  • American Shorthair

* British Shorthair

* Maine Coon

* Persian

* Abyssinian and Somali

* Cornish Rex and Devon Rex

* Scottish Fold, Exotic Shorthair, Turkish Angora, American Bobtail, and others

If you don’t have registration papers or a known pedigree, your orange cat is almost certainly a lovable mixed-breed domestic cat with an orange tabby coat, not a specific “orange cat breed.”

A few fun extra facts

• The “orange” color is caused by a gene on the X chromosome that produces red/orange pigment, and this is why a high percentage of orange cats are male.

• Because the color gene is separate from breed, two random house cats can easily have orange kittens, even if they themselves are not orange.

TL;DR: “Orange cat” describes the coat, not the breed; most orange cats are mixed-breed domestic tabbies, though many well-known breeds (Maine Coon, Persian, American Shorthair, etc.) can also be orange.

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