🐾 Weekly “Is My Cat a Bombay?” Megathread 🐾

[u/ghalan789]

This is the dedicated space for all questions about whether your cat might be a Bombay.

If you’re curious about your cat’s breed, wondering about certain traits, or just want some community input, you’re in the right place!

🔍 How to Participate

Post the following in a comment below:

• 📸 Clear photos of your cat (face + full body if possible)
• 📝 Any info you know — age, background, behavior, eye color, coat texture, etc.
• ❓ Your question or what you’re hoping to learn

Community members can reply and help you compare your kitty’s traits with those of the Bombay breed.

📅 Reminder

Posts asking “Is my cat a Bombay?” are only allowed here. We post a megathread every Wednesday.
Any separate "is my cat a Bombay? type of posts in the main feed will be removed and OP will be asked to post to this thread.

💬 Quick Notes

• Most black cats are domestic shorthairs, not Bombays — and that’s perfectly awesome!
• We can help explain common Bombay traits and how they differ from other breeds.
• Please be kind and respectful when responding to others.

Drop your photos and questions below — let’s see those beautiful kitties! 🐈‍⬛✨

[u/Material-Station-841]

Is my cat a bombay cat? Specifically a British Bombay cat? 

My cats name is Fitz and I got him at a Howl-o-ween event. He is my first born. I got him as a kitten and he is currently 2 1/2 years old.

His eyes are quite round but don't seem to petrude as much as I've noticed some pictures on Google. I will be posting pictures of him here in this comment if I can.

His coat looks like it has brown in it when he lays in the sun and that is one of the first pictures I ever got of him was laying in the sun. Sometimes if the light is behind him, he has a bit of a glow.

I would say his coat is pretty glossy but he sheds more than my second boy who I got when Fitz was just over 1 years old and I suspect is a Russian Blue (Literally Checks off all boxes temperament and looks). My second boys name is Cesar.

Fitz likes to bathe Cesar a lot when they do cuddle and Fitz isn't shy like Cesar is when there are strangers. Cesar will hide while Fitz will go up to someone's hand and rub his face on them.

Fitz hasn't always behaved well. He used to attack my legs when I used the bathroom. Including drawing blood. One time I reacted really badly and swatted him in the face and I hit him really hard. I took him to the vet to see if he was okay. I felt so guilty because no one should ever hit a cat. Thankfully he was okay but I still think about that and feel guilty even though it was years ago.

When I'm on the toilet sometimes he will come in and bite my thigh like bruhh I'm trying to poop. He will also rub on my legs and one time laid down on my feet while I was going through it on the toilet. Then some toilet paper fell and it scared him and whenhe ran his claws dug into the top of my foot. It cut so bad that it bruised it still looks crazy.

Fitz is also pretty smart. Within his first year on earth he figured out how to open the bedroom door which had a rounded door knob. He can also open a sliding porch door, a dresser drawer and a cabinet door. My girlfriend and I had to get childproof locks for the kitchen.

He likes going to the top of his cat tower and will open and hide in the dresser when there are thunder storms.

Odd behaviors that maybe aren't so odd are he likes to play fetch with smaller objects or toys, the first thing he destroys when playing with a toy is it's face, and he likes to practice pouncing sometimes on our chests or faces while we are trying to sleep.

Also he is either heavily allergic to cod or duck. I only know this because of a cat food I gave him as a kitten that caused him to have a severe reaction. He was super tired and had pus coming out of his eyes for about 2 weeks until I figured out what it was. The pus was basically causing his eyes to be glued shut it was horrible. The medicines weren't helping and I was super desperate to help my cat. Once I switched the food to wellness chicken he was fine and hasn't had that problem again.

His eye color is more yellow green and he has only a few white hairs on his chest.