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This unusual cat looks wild, but his behavior is mild. The Pixiebob is a medium-size to large cat. His coat may be short or long, usually in a brown spotted tabby pattern. He is unique among cat breeds because his breed standard permits polydactylism, meaning he can have more than the usual number of toes.
The Pixiebob is thought to be the result of a natural mating between a bobcat and a domestic shorthair, but he may also have sprung from a natural genetic mutation that gave him his wild look and bobbed tail. It’s one of those things that no one will ever know for sure. What is known is that a woman named Carol Ann Brewer acquired a male kitten in 1985 with several distinctive characteristics: a spotted coat, a short tail and more than the usual number of toes—a trait called polydactylism. The following year, she adopted another male cat with a short tail, and with the help of a neighbor’s female cat, he produced a litter of kittens. One, a female, had a muted spotted pattern, and Brewer kept her, naming her Pixie. Brewer wanted more cats like Pixie, and soon, a breed was born.
