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My first cat as an adult living alone, Rosie, was an Black Oriental Shorthair. A smoke tabby with the top half black and the bottom half of each hair white. From a distance she looked black.

She was as slender as a Sphynx. She could jump and sit on top of an open door effortlessly. Scared the daylights out of me. She was a tall cat but teeny. Her paws were like nickels. My friends thought I wasn't feeding her, but she was muscled nicely. She was almost preternatural.
I forgot to mention in the previous post that the picture of the Sphynx on the door reminded me of Rosie. Because of her sleek stature, she could jump the height in a single leap and perch on an open wooden door. It would scare me silly.