A cat who was less or hardly at all affectionate but who was much more well behaved…
…or a cat who was very affectionate and loving but who misbehaved constantly?
Because I have both. And I need to get rid of one.
Help me decide. I’m fine with getting rid of either…but it’s hard because I’m partial to both.
What kinda misbehavior we talking about here? Waste-related? Destruction-of-property related? Red-in-tooth-and-claw related?
My family already has a well behaved but aloof kitty, so barring any horrible messes or injuries, I’d consider a cuddly but ill-behaved fuzzbutt.
More like “getting-into-everything-including-cupboards-and-eating-all-of-the-food-even-though-she-has-cat-food” type of misbehavior.
Really, she eats and likes the cat food just fine. It’s not that. She just ALSO likes other things…so if I just once forget ANY food item outside of the fridge, she’ll have it gone. And I know how easy it is to say “Well, don’t leave anything out”… I don’t usually. You’d be surprised what she can find. And she knows how to open cupboard doors.
You also can’t leave her in the same room with a trash can. She’ll get into it. Every time.
How will you be getting rid of the other cat? Perhaps the well-behaved one would have an easier time finding a home.
I’d keep the misbehaving loving kitty. (That’s how my baby is)
I don’t know if I’ll be getting rid of the other yet.
I’m basically asking…which should I get rid of? I want to keep both…but I can’t.
So do you think you, personally, would want a more well behaved cat or a more affectionate cat?
Thank you. 
We once had two kitties: one that was well-behaved but rarely affectionate, and a psycho wild animal that lived on the tops of cabinets and ran headlong into walls. A friend needed a mouser and we gave her psycho cat. No more mice, apparently, and in a huge old farmhouse, all the room she needs to spaz out at need. The aloof one now is a velcro kitty and must follow me everywhere and perch on my chest at night. Go figure.
You could get rid of both.
I love to fondle and harass kittes, and aloof but well behaved kitties can sometimes get unhappy with that.
I’d keep cuddly-brat if I /had/ to get rid of one or t’other. But I’d rather not get rid of either. I don’t envy you this decision.
The answer is simple: Get a third kitty!
I’d keep this one. This sounds exactly like one of my cats. We always laugh about the crazy stuff he does and the trouble he causes. He’s a little “character” and I can’t imagine giving him up.
I’d keep Personality Kitty. Get some child locks on the cabinets.
Already do. My third cat is perfection. Both affectionate AND well behaved.
How old is the misbehaving cat? Because they often do start out wild and then calm down. We adopted a street kitten from Egypt that almost drove me mad with her incessant antics (knocking everything over, scampering underfoot constantly, chewing up my work papers, licking surfaces that didn’t benefit from a layer of kitty spit, and meowing 24/7). It was only when she was closing in on 3 years old that she started to settle down.
She is still a constant talker, but other than that she’s much easier now, thank goodness. (And she is the most affectionate cat in the world, to the point where she happily makes love to complete strangers and has even been seen sharing the papasan chair with a dog.)
So if the naughty cat is under 3 years old, I might be tempted to choose that one.
Wait…there’s another kind? :eek:
If the third cat is definitely staying then maybe you want to choose based on who gets along with the third cat best?
I couldn’t shoose which is why I have too many cats but I’d lean more toward affectionate but naughty. I have cats for the companionship so aloof kitty would not suit my needs. I have an affectionate but naughty cat and I have to admit he is my favorite. He greets me at the door. He follows me around. He sniffs my hair. Then he aggravates the other cats, gets into things, sneezes big gobs of snot on my computer screen and other places and he always tries to spill my morning coffee but I can’t imagine what it would be like without him to do all these things.
Exactly what Wile E says.
Wesker likes belting around the house at full speed. He runs into walls. He got himself so wound up last night he ended up with the hiccups. He chases his jingly toys all over my bed at midnight. He’s taken his medicine off the table and hidden it. He likes to dance on my keyboard and right now he’s lying on my keyboard tray, forcing me to push the keyboard behind him and type around him.
But then I come home of an evening and he’s straight up in my arms, mewing and purring his little fool head off and my heart just melts.
Plus he’s got really, really long white whiskers that curl down at the ends like a fu-manchu mustache and I love to play with them 
Don’t be fooled. Cat’s aren’t affectionate, Given the opportunity they will snack on your bones. Really they just honor you with the privilege of petting them (if it suits their needs).
I’d take the well-behaved one and show her a good time. My cats have always responded to attention. If you want the cat to be your slave then start by massaging her ears. Cats often don’t like this at first so you have to reach from behind. For some reason many cats don’t like it when you reach toward them and will pull back.
And on a sad but related note. I just lost one of cats and the other one seems more affectionate now. I don’t know how to describe it but both my cats were conscious of being seen cow-towing to me. If I called one she would come up to me and look around. If the other cat was watching she would stop short.