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A collection of some classic Lemmy memes for your enjoyment
oh you don't know oranges. It may be a generic name but they have a very specific set of skills lol
Dog owners:
Cat owners:
it followed me home from the trash bins, i cal him cat
Two of my adopted cat are being named "cat" in my language.
In my defence, vet need a name and i couldn't think of one.
The vets that I have experienced tend to use the human's surname as the pet's surname. If that's the case with you also, it is humorous to imagine a cat's chart basically saying "Cat [your last name]"
I named my first ferret "Girl" and her sister "Yu". One of my turtles is named "Turtle". My creativity knows no bounds.
I did name my dog Sophie though, so one out of four could be worse.
I’ll care about cat breeds when my cat starts showing that she cares about anything.
We have a big, white, mixed breed dog. People ask us all the time if she's a Great Pyrenees, an English Cream, or what have you. She's a dog. 100% pure dog.
one of the dogs of all time
We had a farmyard crossed dog that lived for almost 17 years I called him a car-puk-eh because of his lifelong affliction with motion sickness.
That’s the best kind of dog.
Well let's see, known cat breeds:
Orange, Tuxedo, Standard Issue, Void, Siamese (my parents had a flame point siamese that was weird), naked wrinkly cat, Fluffball.
Think that about covers it.
Edit: Oh yes, Torties and Calicos, and I forgot one I love: Tactical Issue! Some people think they're just sneaky cats. Nope! Grey and white stripes that blend in well with urban environments
There’s also spicy cats, which include wild cats and big cats.
Spicy cats are kind of scary tho
Especially when they're not very far away from you without a cage or glass between it and you
i'm pretty sure screamy baby is a cat breed
Russian blue! AKA "grey cat".
Calico!!! tuxedo plus orange
um and torties i guess
The Fabulous Staredycat Sisters thank you for righting a great wrong by including them! Now they can relax again 😉
No problem!
Used to work at an animal shelter, and I can count on one hand the number of cats we'd ever had that were anything other than "D(S/L)H (color and pattern)" or "(pattern) Siamese"
Good! That means not too many breeders are interested in fucking up their health for the sake of some stupid feature.
Enough are though. Those poor munchkins are supper popular. And rag doll cats are bred to be almost idiots because some assholes thought it was cutentonhave a breed whose most distinct behave is flooping stupidly on the floor
What's D, S, L and H?
Domestic Short/Long Hair
At the shelter I volunteered at, they'd occasionally get a purebred, but they'd still advertise them as DLH (or whatever) because they didn't want to attract the type of adopter who cares about the breed.
A lot of people asks if my cat is a maine coon, because big and fluffy –but he doesn't have other features. I always answers that he's a bastard (meaning mixed origins).
My dogs are purebred results of hot street corner love and 100% dog. Dunno what's inside, they're a good boy and girl. My little shelter kids.
I used to know a woman who would make up names like "North American yodel-hound" or "white-toed chipmunk dog" as the breed for her dogs.
Is that Jambo?
jschlatt
On the other hand, I don't even know if there's a word for "mutt" with cats the way there is for generic mixed dogs. When I last moved and got a new vet, and they asked me what breed my cats were and I said I wasn't sure as they didn't have any "distinctive" breed and were shelter adopts, they pretty much just said "Domestic shorthair it is then". Not sure if that's something particular that's just common or a catch-all term.
"Mongrel" is the word, but I've barely heard it used.
Pretty confident "domestic shorthair" is the "John Doe" of cat breeds.
Based on a dogs shape and coat, you can pretty easily determine the breed families in it. It's important to know since dog breeds are much more diverse due to their history with humans around the world—most have jobs bred into them. So it's still good to know if your dog has breeding in it that thrives on exercise or fetch jobs or that sort of thing. Most of those little dogs are for hunting small vermin and are savage fuckers, for example.
Cats it's mostly one size fits all with a random roll on personality stats.
Moggy can be used for cats the way mutt is for dogs, but I think it might be more common in the UK? I don’t really hear it in the US, maybe cat breeders use it.
But yeah, for vets and rescues it’s just domestic short hair/long hair (sometimes medium hair).
My friend has a munchkin void. It can go from purr to hiss in a fraction of a second.
That sounds like my mum's cat. She was a feral, left on the doorstep of the pub.
She'll hiss and growl at everything, but you just distract her with a toy, then it's all purrs and snuggles.She has a weird obsession with licking faces, which evolved from biting faces.
As someone who prefers licks, this is good progress
I have never had my eskie mistaken for a husky, it's always either a Pomeranian or a Samoyed.
That being said I do also have an orange braincell, a void, a tortie and a good girl.
I've had a ragdoll, a bengal, and a bunch of "American Shorthair"s.
This is so true :blobcat_bigsob:
nah, that's a pomeranian spitz
