What is the best breed of cat?

The Siberian tiger is the biggest cat, so it makes the best bed warmer.

Assuming it allows you any space on the bed.

The nice thing about a Siberian tiger is that you never have to tell it what to do.

If you value your life.

Never stopped Calvin from trying.

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.

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.

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.

It is the mother that teaches kittens how to efficiently and effectively hunt and kill prey:

It has nothing to do with the coloring of the cat, or anything like that

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.

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. :smiling_cat_with_heart_eyes:

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.

adorable!

Here is a higher resolution version of the BBC video you linked to.

What’s a Sonic cat?

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 :grin: .

yeah sure i wanna hear!

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.

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, however, there is a (varying with the precise population) wild-type pattern.

Cat is the best bread of cat.

Especially when kneading.

— but typos aside, I think you’ve won the thread.

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.