# What is the best breed of cat? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 15, 2026, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-breed-of-cat/1030909 "2026-06-15T12:57:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![StarvingButStrong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/starvingbutstrong/32/335_2.png) [@StarvingButStrong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StarvingButStrong)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2026, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-breed-of-cat/1030909/41 "2026-06-16T14:12:40Z")
The Siberian tiger is the biggest cat, so it makes the best bed warmer. Assuming it allows you any space on the bed. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2026, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-breed-of-cat/1030909/42 "2026-06-16T14:17:47Z")
The nice thing about a Siberian tiger is that you never have to tell it what to do. If you value your life. ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2026, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-breed-of-cat/1030909/43 "2026-06-16T14:37:23Z")
Never stopped Calvin from trying. ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Zappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2026, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-breed-of-cat/1030909/44 "2026-06-16T14:39:28Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > A rescue cat! They’re the best, and they deserve loving homes. Amen to that! Cuddling: Go to a shelter that has a “cat room” (like the one near where my daughter lives). Sit down. Wait for a cat to choose you. Looking pretty: ditto, but approach a cat that looks good. If the cat likes you, win-win. Mousing: that’s harder to tell at a shelter. Maybe bring a toy on a string and see which cat attacks it with the most vigor. Sadly, like people at job interviews, they may act all predatory at the shelter then slack off once they get the job. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2026, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-breed-of-cat/1030909/45 "2026-06-16T17:29:07Z")
I’ve found house cats of any kind are fickle mousers. If it looks fun and their 4th snooze of the day is over, they might chase a mouse. No guarantee of the dispatch. You maybe have do that yourself. Unpleasant, to say the least. _Cat_ the barn cat, whose primary use is pest control, chooses her victims at her whim. I kinda don’t blame her. Some of the barn rats are alarmingly big. I would run from them. Yeah, if you have a mouse problem, call the exterminator. Get a cat for the fun things. Don’t expect work from them. ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2026, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-breed-of-cat/1030909/46 "2026-06-16T21:12:23Z")
> [@StarvingButStrong](#): > > The Siberian tiger is the biggest cat, so it makes the best bed warmer. > > Assuming it allows you any space on the bed It will allow you space inside the tiger. I expect it’s nice and warm in there; but you won’t really care any longer. ---
**Author:** ![DPRK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4491bb/32.png) [@DPRK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DPRK)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2026, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-breed-of-cat/1030909/47 "2026-06-16T21:58:26Z")
It is the mother that teaches kittens how to efficiently and effectively hunt and kill prey: [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/ccqNY7wOTRg/hqdefault.jpg "Cute baby kittens develop their hunting instinct- BBC wildlife") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccqNY7wOTRg) ---
**Author:** ![DPRK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4491bb/32.png) [@DPRK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DPRK)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2026, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-breed-of-cat/1030909/48 "2026-06-16T22:02:25Z")
It has nothing to do with the coloring of the cat, or anything like that ---
**Author:** ![Capn\_Carl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/838e76/32.png) [@Capn\_Carl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capn_Carl)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2026, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-breed-of-cat/1030909/49 "2026-06-16T23:25:52Z")
I work in a hardware store. One of the managers breeds Siamese and he donated a kitten to the store 2 years ago. He’s been great. Likes customers, likes kids, likes dogs from the local shelter that are brought to the store to acclimate them to cats. He’s very popular among the locals and has thousands of followers on Instagram. He can be very loud when it’s slow and he’s bored. I keep a ping pong ball in my vest, for him to chase and kill. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2026, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-breed-of-cat/1030909/50 "2026-06-17T00:24:35Z")
Our Sonic cat is very famous and very fat. She’s a orange splashed white cat with a short fat tail that’s so funny looking. The lady that runs the Sonic tends to her. She’s had several litters that were scooped up fast but they finally got her spayed. I was so happy to learn she is now retired and living a happy life. She loves tater tots. She does a little beg with her paws, that’s adorable. If you give her one she’ll try to jump in your car for another. Obviously her name is Tater tot. 😻 ---
**Author:** ![P-man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/p-man/32/3606_2.png) [@P-man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/P-man)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2026, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-breed-of-cat/1030909/51 "2026-06-17T01:50:05Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > Obviously her name is Tater tot. 😻 My parents had one named Tater Head (named by me when he showed up and wouldn’t leave). The old dog tried to run him off, but Tater Head would just come back and rub against the dog until he gave up. They ended up sleeping in the dog house together. ---
**Author:** ![Xarrot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xarrot/32/21728_2.png) [@Xarrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Xarrot)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2026, 8:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-breed-of-cat/1030909/52 "2026-06-17T08:53:29Z")
adorable! ---
**Author:** ![I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/i_love_me_vol.i/32/521_2.png) [@I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_Love_Me_Vol.I)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2026, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-breed-of-cat/1030909/53 "2026-06-18T04:05:39Z")
> [@DPRK](#): > > It is the mother that teaches kittens how to efficiently and effectively hunt and kill prey: [Here](https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0261fx0) is a higher resolution version of the BBC video you linked to. > [@Beckdawrek](#): > > Our Sonic cat is very famous and very fat What’s a Sonic cat? ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2026, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-breed-of-cat/1030909/54 "2026-06-18T04:49:28Z")
Sonic Drive in. A cat showed up there with a litter of kittens. All customers felt sorry for her. A bunch did anyway. She got loads of treats and food brought to her. A local vet gave her shots. She had another litter or two before she was spayed. An outcry from customers and an actual write up in the local rag convinced the lady who ran Sonic to adopt her and get her spayed. That there is Tater tot the famous Sonic cat. I’ll tell you about the Walmart dog next, if you want 😁 . ---
**Author:** ![Xarrot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xarrot/32/21728_2.png) [@Xarrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Xarrot)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2026, 8:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-breed-of-cat/1030909/55 "2026-06-18T08:16:51Z")
yeah sure i wanna hear! ---
**Author:** ![Napier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ce73a5/32.png) [@Napier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Napier)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2026, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-breed-of-cat/1030909/56 "2026-06-18T15:21:18Z")
> [@solost](#): > > The best breed, IMO, is a mixed-breed cat. There is a lot of good to be said for this. I think the more mixed, the better. Cat ancestors, before humans started breeding for looks, looked like the brown tabby cats of today. I think our brown tabbies have reverted to the overall ancestral average – in other words, our weird fur color interference has been let to fade. But another approach would be to select cats with a lot of Siamese ancestry. The Siamese breed was developed to be good companions to humans. We have had dozens of cats, as we were sort of an amateur cat rescue for years. My two favorites by far looked like seal point Siamese, though both were very big (a non Siamese tendency). I loved them for their catsonalities. ---
**Author:** ![DPRK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4491bb/32.png) [@DPRK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DPRK)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2026, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-breed-of-cat/1030909/57 "2026-06-18T19:15:17Z")
I am not sure I believe in “cat racism”, where the color of a cat is any kind of predictor of how it will behave. If you look at photos of [wild cats](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wildcat), however, there is a (varying with the precise population) wild-type pattern. ---
**Author:** ![Lsura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2026, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-breed-of-cat/1030909/58 "2026-06-21T12:07:51Z")
> [@Xarrot](#): > > What is the best breed of cat? Cat is the best bread of cat. ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2026, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-breed-of-cat/1030909/59 "2026-06-21T12:39:50Z")
> [@Lsura](#): > > Cat is the best bread of cat Especially when kneading. — but typos aside, I think you’ve won the thread. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2026, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-breed-of-cat/1030909/60 "2026-06-21T13:43:09Z")
My cat runs up to greet me when I pull into the driveway, then jumps into my truck when I open the door. She also runs to see me when i go out in the back yard. That’s the best breed of cat. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-breed-of-cat/1030909.md?page=2)