#cat color

[jellyfishparade]

i am once again asking about a cats coat pattern

looks black but has tabby pattern ? there’s 2 others that look like it also ( i assume they’re siblings )

[winter-jay-official]

Anyone have any thoughts on what color my cat is

[drferox]

I've heard that black cats have better personalities than your average cat. Not that it makes a difference since my next cats are going to be black anyway (because they tend to be under-adopted), but do you know how much truth there is to this? Enough to make any real difference? (And what's a "better" personality anyway?) Also, question tax: Came for the water selkie octopus, stayed for the real life stories and humour.

The following is purely speculation based on a lifetime spent with cats, and the last decade or so of being consumed by veterinary medicine.

There are, as I’m sure you all know, way, way more cats born into the world each year than will end up getting homes. Of the cats that do get homes, the majority get them for either one of two reasons:

They look cool

They have a good personality.

Consequently the cats that are most pretty - interesting purebreds and colours, tortoiseshells, blue cats - pretty reliably get homes regardless of what their personality is like. The ‘broken’ cats - the ones people decide are too ugly or damaged so nobody else would ever give them a home - are also adopted pretty fast.

It’s the ordinary looking cats that have the hardest time being adopted - blacks and tabbys. Particularly when people are browsing websites for their next pet, it’s the eye-catching ones that earn the most attention. The ordinary looking ones only have their personality to fall back on to win them a home.

Hence tortoiseshells get a reputation for attitude, because they’re pretty enough to be adopted regardless of their personality, but black and tabby cats don’t get adopted unless their personality stands out and so are seen as having ‘better’ personalities.

That’s my theory, anyway. All colours of cats are capable of being lovely or a menace, but gees it always seems like it’s the tortoiseshells and gingers that get adopted first out of a litter.

[jellyfishparade]

what color do we think this little dude is ? it looks black / very dark brown to me ,, but it’s got light tabby face markings ?

what do u guys think ?

[scottishstraight]

The reaaaal MAN!!!