I (23 M) recently moved in with my girlfriend (23F) and she has 2 cats. One is a calico and is built completely normal, which piqued my interest with the second cat. Cat number 2, Cannoli, has very short front legs compared to cat number 1 (Ravioli). Cannoli has always kept her distance from me, ever since my girlfriend first got her, so I’ve never really noticed her leg size. Recently though Ravioli has begun to like me so I hang out with her a lot. Cannoli however has only recently started warming up to me and standing in the same room with me, which is when I noticed that her front legs looked a little short. When I brought it up to my girlfriend she defended Cannoli, saying that she had perfectly proportional legs. Now I don’t mind if the cat is perfectly proportional, however I think that when it comes to a cat that’s a mutt it’s kind of fun to figure out what breed it is. I discovered that there’s something called a munchkin cat and that mixed cats can have that in them. When showing that to my girlfriend she was not amused and continued defending the perfection of Cannoli’s leg heights. I’ll leave pictures in this of the cat so I can maybe get some opinions because it’s causing a regular debate in our house lol.
Cat Pics Here: https://imgur.com/a/adIkzcb
As someone who’s not a vet but has owned a lot of cats over the years, Cannoli’s leg length looks perfectly normal for an adult domestic shorthair tabby to me. YT mild A for being (probably) confidently incorrect, and not dropping something so unimportant once you realized your insistence was upsetting your girlfriend.
jsyk, cat breeds aren’t like that. Post Cannoli in any cat sub and they’ll say she’s a domestic shorthair, tabby coat.
And I’m still waiting on the “obvious” signs of dwarfism bc those leggies definitely aren’t, they look within the normal range of feline variance.
Edit: Also, I’d be annoyed if someone who just started learning about cats started insisting that my pet was “obviously” a thing they just heard of.