What breed is the kitten we found?

Domestic Shorthair is his breed. c: You're looking for his coat pattern and colour, and I think he is a cream classic tabby.

*example of the 'target' pattern of a classic tabby*

http://karellomanx.com/sams979.jpg

The color is cream (the dilute of red/orange) tabby. Pattern is classic. There are no "medium" haired cats - they are either short or long hair. So you have a cream tabby domestic longhair.

Tabby is the pattern on the coat; not a breed.

BTW Charlotte a SPOTTED tabby is not just broken stripes. Its very much a spot; look at the coat patterns on an Egyptian Mau, Ocicat or Bengal and you will see its not a broken mackerel.

The coat is called Classic Tabby. If you post pictures on his coat I can tell you what his colour is. There's no blonde in cats. Dark orange is Red and light orange is Cream. So this is probably either a Red Classic Tabby http://www.mcbfa.org/colorredclassic.jpg or Cream Classic Tabby http://www.seregiontica.org/Colors/tabby/creamclas...

As for breed, you already said what it is - it's a domestic - no breed or mix of breeds just like over 97% of cats. You don't find stray kittens of particular breeds out roaming the streets.

Holly is right to describe your cat as the classic tabby pattern which can also resemble a butterfly when flattened with a swirl on the shoulder & one on the flank both sides.

The other tabby patters are;

Ticked which looks like wild rabbit known as agouti, showing no stripes (only on face & limbs) or swirls or spots.

Mackerel - this has thin wavey vertical stripes along the sides just like a Mackerel fish.

Spotted, my favourite, which has spots instead of stripes, really it's just broken stripes.