I find it amusing, and somehow very Cat that the ones who select the cat, saving it from durance vile, are ignored in favor of the obviously superior @Czarcasm who was not involved in any direct way with the cat adoption.
Of course, it may be because I’m in the same boat. My wife brought home our first cat as a semi-rescue from the vet, and it mostly just tolerates her existence, but loves -me-. Our second cat, that I did all the research and selection of, considers me a useful tool and will cuddle me for warmth, but LOVES his mother and can barely tolerate being separated from her.
I’ve been dealing with cats pretty much my whole life, and in my experience, they tend to favor opposite-sex humans. That’s the case with my current two: the (spayed as a kitten) female Siamese mix likes me well enough, especially since I dispense the canned food, but prefers my husband. The (neutered at unknown age) male generic orange gets along well enough with DH, but is a confirmed mama’s kitty. I’m the one who winds up with orange lap velcro, he sleeps on my side of the bed plastered against my legs, he follows me around, etc.
Your answer may well be correct, or at least there’s likely a significantly high match-rate, but I prefer to assume it’s just cat bloody-mindedness and snobbery. Assuming those motivations behind all cat actions leads to superior profiling skills! Not that it helps much…
Excuse me, there’s a cat in the sink. I’m obviously not paying enough attention to the right target (read, the cat of course) at this minute.
As far as the division of cat love, it seems to be based on their coat at my house. If it’s a black/white tuxedo-ish cat, they decide I’m their human. If it’s a tabby of some sort, they fixate on my sweetie.
Congrats on the new kitty, she looks adorable and appropriately mischievous!
And speaking from experience, two kittens are easier than one. A human can’t keep up with their energy level and we sleep far too long in one stretch for their taste. So there’s an excellent reason for you to take your own stroll through the shelter sometime this week and pick up a little buddy for Maki
And two kittens raised together are far more likely to result in two adult cats who are willing to live with other cats. They’ll keep each other cat-socialized.
And it gets even worse! I already have plans on getting two kittens once my boys are old and crochety to give them a dose of their own medicine. How did I go from one stray kitten to now planning for eventually four of the menaces?!
-nods sagely as he disinfects and bandages every extremity-
You get the first cat on impulse, or out of good feeling, or a friend/family member is moving/can’t keep them for a few months. Then, you realize you have to get a second cat so the first one isn’t lonely when you’re sleeping/at work/trying to use the loo. Then of course, well, you need a spare cat because the first two are spending their time together (if you’re lucky) and now You need a cat to spend time with you, and so on and so forth.
Eventually, you’re the person with all those cats!
Ahem, I’ve been threate… I mean I’ve reconsidered my poor choices, and strongly suggest that @Czarcasm take’s @liirogue and @thorny_locust’s suggestions to heart and pick up at least one, or possibly two new kittens at the shelter as soon as possible. My carpeting, furniture, or life are not being held hostage to the making of this statement.
I refer to this as “Feline Entertainment Units,” or FEUs. Each cat in a household is one FEU on its own, and the permutations of interactions are each an additional FEU. So if you have cats A, B, and C you have a total of 7 FEUs: A, B, C, AB, AC, BC, and ABC.
With four cats, I think we have 14 FEUs at the moment.
That’s right! There is actually a simple mathematical formula in statistics to give you the answer for N cats; I’m just too lazy to remember it (hey, grad school was 45 years ago …)
