Last updated 10 September 2026

Editorial policy and methodology

WhatIsMyCatBreed.com is built and maintained by Adnan Khan and Wiqas Ahmad, DVM, with content published through the WhatIsMyCatBreed.com Editorial Team. Our goal is to make breed-identification and cat-care information understandable, useful, and transparent about uncertainty and the limits of online tools.

Research and sources

We prefer primary research, veterinary associations, university veterinary resources, recognized breed registries, and established animal-welfare organizations. Important medical, safety, genetics, or breed claims are checked against identifiable sources wherever practical. We distinguish visual clues from pedigree or genetic proof, and educational estimates from individualized veterinary advice.

Human editing and publication process

Draft material is not automatically published. The editorial team reviews pages in depth, restructures and rewrites material where needed, checks factual claims and source links, removes unsupported certainty, verifies that the page answers the user's practical question, and improves clarity, examples, tables, warnings, and limitations before publication. Tool pages also receive functional checks so that the written explanation matches the inputs, outputs, assumptions, and calculations used by the live tool.

Calculators and veterinary review

Calculator pages explain their inputs, formulas, units, assumptions, and important limitations. Wiqas Ahmad, DVM reviews the veterinary calculators and safety-sensitive reference pages before publication, including the formulas, reference ranges or thresholds where applicable, warning language, practical limitations, and circumstances that should prompt professional veterinary care. Reviewed pages identify him by name and link to his reviewer profile.

Results remain educational estimates. They are not diagnoses or prescriptions and cannot account for every cat's examination findings, medical history, laboratory results, medication interactions, pregnancy status, age, or other individual clinical factors. Medication tools are intended to support a veterinarian-provided plan, not create one. Emergency-risk tools are designed to encourage prompt professional help, not rule it out.

Review labels

We use a named veterinary-review label only on pages that Wiqas Ahmad, DVM has actually reviewed. General breed-identification and editorial articles that do not carry that label should not be interpreted as having individual veterinary sign-off. This distinction is intentional so readers can see what kind of review a page has received.

AI and automation

The photo identifier uses an AI model to interpret visible traits. Its output is a visual estimate, not a DNA result or a calibrated probability of ancestry. AI-assisted drafting may also be used as one part of the editorial production process. When it is used, the generated draft is a starting point rather than the final publication: our editorial team substantially edits and refines the material, checks claims against sources, corrects errors, removes unsupported statements, verifies the tool logic and safety context where relevant, and reviews the finished page for usefulness, accuracy, clarity, and consistency before it goes live.

Human editors remain responsible for what we publish. We do not treat AI output itself as a source, and we do not intentionally publish large batches of unreviewed machine-generated text.

Updates and corrections

We review pages when formulas, sources, product behavior, or relevant standards change. Material corrections should update the page and its revision information where appropriate. To report a factual error, broken link, unsafe instruction, or disclosure issue, email hello@whatismycatbreed.com or use the contact page. Please include the page URL and, when possible, the supporting source.