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AnAmericanMother, what's your cattery? Do you show CFA or TICA?

I agree "she" - Sam - certainly appears to have male enhancements, I thought she was a boy too, but, she looks for all the world like a Blue point, with albeit a lovely clear coat. You rarely see points that well matched and dark in a choccy. Could be the photo coloring deceiving me though.

I think her ears look nice and big, it is difficult to judge size in a profile pic but her profile looks straight as a die.

sciencediet, much as I'd like to know who bred her, I wouldn't suggest you go looking to hard, if I was the breeder I'd still be searching for that pretty cat. btw, is she a chocolate? or a blue?

My cattery is Hy-Brasil, from before the "4 grands rule" so it may well still be on file with C.F.A. . . . but I haven't showed a cat since my kids were born back in the 80s. I showed almost all C.F.A. -- TICA was just getting started, and a good cat show friend of mine, Hatcher Granville of Rich-Hat Cattery (now sadly deceased - her very nice BP male, Tr. Ch. Sonnenhof's Apache of Barba, sired my Champion), was very big into TICA but I don't think we went to more than 2 or 3 TICA shows. Showed mostly in the SE - Atlanta area, as far west as B'ham and Montgomery, east to Greenville/S'burg, and as far north as Johnson City TN once for a big 8 ring All Breed show. (That was where my boy Hy-Brasil Cormac made his Championship, Walter Friend gave him his final winners ribbon. He was a BIG boy - twice the size of anything else in the ring but very correct in conformation. He did go BOX in one ring behind a very pretty Seal Point lady . . . bless their hearts, the judges didn't know what to do with a Siamese Moose!)

I thought about Blue Point for that little boy (I SWEAR it's a boy!) but the points on the legs are low for a BP, and with every BP I've ever had the mask joined the ear points by the time they were 8 months old, and he looks older than that from his shoulder and hip development. The body color also looks too light for a BP. So I would say this is a Choc with Grand potential . . .

sciencediet, I would not let anybody know you have that cat. The more I look at him (or her) the better he (or she) looks!

See my post above about Sam "don't call me Samantha", the tomboy girl. LOL!

Here's a photo from my lousy digital about a month after she showed up. She took to 22 year-old Minka (a combo Tonk & black cat).

Sam is a chocolate point according to the vet.

You don't think I should look for the breeder? Sam has been here five years and was fixed a very long time ago.

When she was found, we contacted every authority, animal control, the local pet shops and put posters up on telephone poles all over the place. And no one ever claimed her. Where she was found is about a half mile from an old Interstate, so maybe there was an accident. But I don't think any cattery would be unhappy to discover that the lost kitten is alive and happy. Do you?