Talk:Ocicat

The Rebuilding
Alright, I did phase one - the info box and a better picture. I'm working on phase two, which is the reworking and adding to the article some more valuable information as well as a reorginzation into catergories. The previous picture will be reworked in as well. I hope to have this done sometime around the new year. If you got any info, send it to me, thanks! Anung Mwka 23:31, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

Doctored picture
The second picture should be fixed (eyes) or removed.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/29/Chocolate-Spotted-Ocicat.jpg —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.177.205.79 (talk) 01:44, 1 October 2007 (UTC)

I agree... those eyes are wierd —Preceding unsigned comment added by Grimmcar (talk • contribs) 04:31, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

Photos Available
I have some excellent photos of my ocicat being judged at a show. (He was best cat, of course. ;) So how can I get them into the Gallery here? DCCougar (talk) 01:23, 1 March 2009 (UTC)


 * congratulations. here are the upload instructions, but make sure you read what you are agreeing to. you are essentially donating your image to charity. if you don't like the terms, don't upload. —Chris Capoccia  T&#8260;C 08:16, 1 March 2009 (UTC)

Ocicat genes
I have a beautiful ocicat named Lucy (Lucy with Diamonds) acquired from Wild Rain breeders north of Sacramento California. Lucy has apparently inherited her lovely orange coloration from her Abyssinian ancestors and her "wildcat" spots from her tabby parentage. Unfortunately, her vocal talents seem to have originated in the Siamese gene pool! Fortunately her appearance and disposition more than compensate for her lack of vocal qualities. Lucy shares my home with Hobbes (Abyssinian) and B.C. (Silver Tabby). JuliansLaw (talk) 20:43, 17 September 2009 (UTC)

Tone
while apparently true, the tone of some of this article is off. i will attempt to find sources for some of these facts (esp. behavior), and rewrite. i know one of these animals, i believe, and the information seems accurate by my observations.Mercurywoodrose (talk) 04:37, 15 December 2009 (UTC)

Written Like An Essay
This is a pretty good article, but in some parts it has a biased tone "Ocicats make excellent pets for people who want to spend a lot of time with their cat" and in others it's written like an elementary school essay "They are often considered to have the spirit of a dog in a cat's body.", "[...]but they do require more attention than cats who aren't so people-oriented". Basically, some sections just need to be rewritten to have a more neutral tone, and be expanded upon ("They are often considered to have the spirit of a dog in a cat's body." should be replaced with something along the lines of "They are commonly thought to have similar temperaments to dogs") LiamSP (talk) 02:10, 8 April 2011 (UTC)


 * So why don't you do it, instead of just tagging it? Not ike it's a long article. — HarringtonSmith (talk) 04:25, 8 April 2011 (UTC)

the pictures does not belong to ocicats
those kittens are not ocicats but Egyptian Maus

mario 190.254.133.37 (talk) 23:42, 6 March 2014 (UTC)

No wild DNA?
"but has no wild DNA in its gene pool." What does no wild DNA mean? It seems obvious that the cat would share >99% of it's genome with wild ancestors. I must be misunderstanding the meaning of this sentence. 128.189.138.156 (talk) 19:11, 27 March 2017 (UTC)

Domestic cats are a genome that has been a pretty standard domesticated animal for thousands of years (think mummified Egyptian cats). They do not contain wild type DNA like that found in Asian Leopard Cats, Caracals, or Servals, unless they are bred to these wild animals. The Ocicat is all domesticated cat. It is not a cross to a wild animal such as the Ocelot (as is sometimes thought) or Asian Leopard Cats, such as the Bengal. Wiksilver (talk) 19:40, 27 March 2017 (UTC)

That tree-climbing video is a dumpster fire.
30 seconds of waiting with two seconds of off-screen climbing — Preceding unsigned comment added by 170.173.0.22 (talk) 15:31, 9 August 2020 (UTC)

Contradiction between sources.
So the GCCF (https://www.gccfcats.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/OcicatAztecBP.pdf) state that Virginia Daly seeked out Dr Keeler after seeing something in the paper whilst the CFA (https://cfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/ocicat-brochure.pdf) state that Dr Keeler saw something in the paper about Tonga and contacted Virginia herself.

The GCCF include a photo of the newspaper so I will side with them but another issue they contradict each other on is if the American Shorthair was added by mistake or not. If a mistake were made it does make a bit of sense for the CFA to avoid mentioning it however the GCCF is the only source to mention it. Neither TICA nor the Ocicat cat book mention it.

I'm going to go with the GCCF viewpoint for now but I will leave it noted here that there does exist a contradiction between registries and their history description. Traumnovelle (talk) 07:47, 24 January 2024 (UTC)