shorthair

[ shawrt-hair ]

noun

1. a domestic cat with a coat of short, thick hair; a cat of a shorthaired breed.

Example Sentences

A 2023 study in the journal Behavioral Processes studied 53 adult domestic shorthair cats at a cat café, obtaining 194 minutes of footage with 186 different cat interactions.

From Salon

Galena, her 6-year-old American shorthair, had sneaked inside a 3-by-3-foot cardboard Amazon returns package alongside five pairs of steel-toed boots.

From New York Times

A domestic shorthair cat with blood in its urine.

From Seattle Times

She tells how Momo, a domestic shorthair named after a steam-filled Nepalese dumpling, “sleeps like a baby in the middle between me and my husband.”

From Seattle Times

Mengel said she knew Lola-Pearl would be a good therapy cat after she brought her on a whim to an amputee coalition conference about a month after she adopted the domestic shorthair.

From Seattle Times