It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s a… miniature black tiger?
Unlike dogs, cats don’t come in an alphabet of different breeds. Compared to the over 200+ dog breeds worldwide, the most any recognized feline organization acknowledges is 70 different cat breeds, but most households hold fewer than 10. You’ve got your puffy Persians, your tortoiseshell kitties with supreme tortittude, meowjestic Maine coons, hairless sphynx cats, your “standard issue cats” (tabbies), terrific tuxedo cats, and then you have your generic black cats and orange cats with one collective brain cell. Of course, there are others, but these are most likely the cats most people have.
However, the world of cats is much more than these select breeds. There are purrfectly rare and unique-looking cats all over the place, like the Lykoi, AKA the “werewolf cat”, or the burnt orange abyssinian cats that look like they inspired pharaohs. Today, we have a cat that was found by a random passerby that, in all of our years as cat expurrts, we can’t even begin to describe. It looks like a miniature black tiger, or a tabby with melanism.
Upon uploading this pawsitively beautiful kitty with a unique fur pattern, the cat community couldn’t identify it either. Purrhaps it’s a variation on a tabby, or maybe it is its own unique breed altogether, but we’ll let you weigh in on it with your own opinions. Either way, it’s one of the most beautiful cats we’ve ever seen, and if we had been the one to stumble across its path, you best believe we would have taken it home that same instant.
