What is your favorite "type" of cat?

[shiloh]

He is such a pretty color, too. It does not translate well on camera but is like a cookie biscuit color or almost a Morganite peachy pink. And a pink nose and little pink toes -hardly an appropriate description for MR Tough boy, right? LOL

[DMK]

Solid black or solid light cats are just blobs to the camera! I have a solid black cat. I have 36,768 pics of my other cats and 4 of her. The only thing you can see in those 4 pics is her emerald eyes

[CanadianTrotter]

@shiloh

I love his beautiful red-orange color! I think they call that marmalade. Whatever - is gorg!

I’ve always called them red or ginger cats, I’ve heard many people call the really bright red ones marmalades but the correct name is red tabby.

Ralphie is what could be called a marmalade, John Coltrane and Billie Holiday are what I call a red dun, Bird and Dizzy are red tabby with white aka Kittens With Mittens. Ella Fitzgerald has been labelled a torbie, by a few vets and a caliby by other vets. Recently I had another vet say she is a torbico because she displays tabby, tortoiseshell and calico markings. The name torbico is fairly new to me but I believe that’s what she is.

[StB.YM]

She is so adorable in her costume!!!

[Larksmom]

I found a similar thing on FB and I did quite a few of them on my cats and dog. Unfortunately, I cannot find them on this computer. I will look for them tomorrow as they were spectacular!

[Renn_aissance]

I prefer big fluffy cats found on the street.

Here are my boys. Bartholomew, a Cherry Hilligan Coon (Maine Coon crossed with Baltimore Street Cat,) and Alfred, a Himalayan, who marched through the woods to my friend’s mom’s house and “MAOOOOW”ed at the front door until let in. She couldn’t find his people. She had 7 cats. The rest is history.

They’re both lean, mean mischief machines and together make up 30lbs of cats. They shake the stairs when they get rowdy at 3AM. And they are the best purrers in the known universe.

[B_and_B]

We’ve always had cats, mostly a string of vaguely related short haired barn cats. After 19/20 years of the untouchable brother sister pair of A and B, both black, who lived in the house for 15 of those years and were never cats you could pat or pick up and were not truly house trained. I am happy to have Miss Kitty Olivia, a rescued possible Maine Coon mix. Long hair, massive vet bills when she came. Almost silent, very very affectionate with her people but has a nasty bite for other people, hates small children, exceedingly well house trained. Loves my lap and boots my father out of his rocking chair regularly. And despite only having three teeth left, she is an excellent mouser.

[Alex_and_Bodie_s_Mom]

@jumperoverwater88

And her “costume” one year.

OMG, that picture is PRICELESS! That expression on her face!!

[skipollo]

Siamese 100%. We like traditional apple head.

This is our sweet boy Squacks. We lost him in March 2021 at 16 years old. We miss him every single day

[beowulf]

Never met a cat I didn’t like!

I have a soft spot for voidlings. I always end up with them. Usually they are the last of their litter to be picked up.

My childhood cat was a Siamese and he has left a hole that’s never been filled. I’ve had many wonderful cats since but none have been like him.

Someday I’d love a Bombay and another Siamese, it is just hard to justify spending money on them when there are so many strays that need homes – I know a nicely bred kitty will find a home, so I tell myself the strays need me more.

I say that now, with 3 kitties – and not a single one I went looking for.

[rockymouse]

What’s a “voidling?”

I had cats as a child. My husband was very firmly anti-cat when we married. (You probably know where this is going.) For my birthday one year, I wanted a kitten. My husband told me he’d never feed it, pet it, care for it, like it - nothing - because he didn’t like cats, but we could get it because he did like me.

We went to the dump, where our small town’s “animal shelter” was then located. It was a tin shed, no ventilation or cooling. Two kittens were in a nasty wire cage. One of them spat at me and the little hay colored kitten stepped forward, looked me in the eye and meowed. He came with us, terribly underweight and with an infected eye. By nine o’clock that night, as the kitten purred in the middle of our bed, my husband frittered around saying “but he’s so tiny, what if we roll over on him,” and “you never told they were friendly and nice.” Sucker.

That cat was the best cat ever in the whole world. He spoke when you spoke to him. He adored our young son. He came when you called, moused, was savvy about cars, strange dogs and snakes, and slept between our heads for 16 beautiful years. We have had many others since him, and they are all loved, but dang, I miss that yellow cat.

[Larksmom]

I suspect a ‘voiding’ is a black cat.

[candyappy]

Siamese or a mix. I also love grey kitties with just a little white on them. This was our last house cat. He was 20+ pounds and my daughter’s best buddy. He had a blob of white on his chest.

[chestnutmarebeware]

Here’s a few more of the gang—just because they’re cute!

Clem

Clem again. What can I say? She’s a nut.

Ella

And Ella again

And finally Ted (aka Teddy the Moog)

Ted likes to go on walks with us

[Larksmom]

Teddy is my kinda boy!

[BatCoach]

Clem is my kind of people

[Larksmom]

I FOUND it!! I got this on FB years ago and one of my dog. I will post it if I can find it. This is my beloved Gatsby.

found Toffee

[phantomhorse]

My first guy, a barn cat who figured out inside was better, is why I have a soft spot for void cats:

The second guy was also a failed barn cat:

The third girl was left in a box in a bank lobby not even 2 weeks after my void cat had died. She weighed about a pound, was covered in fleas, her eyes were crusted shut, and she had a raging fever. We didn’t expect her to live, but she surprised us all. She wound up being blind but that doesn’t slow her down:

The fourth guy showed up in our barn last year, hours from death. He weighed only a half a pound when I brought him in. He keeps us all on our toes:

I have always wanted a calico, so hopefully the universe sees fit to send one eventually.

[beowulf]

Yes!! A voidling is a black cat. I just don’t understand the stigma, my two are lovely.

I don’t want to compare them to dogs, because they’re cats – and I do think it’s normal for cats to be as attentive and as lovey as dogs – which these two absolutely are. I just could not imagine living without them! All three of them are at the door when I get home from work - they are lovey, goofy, velcroey, chatty, and just make my days so much better.

Here is Void #1 - the grand dame herself, Happycat, enjoying time out in her catio (these 3 are indoor cats).

Demanding the sink be turned on for her to drink:

Void #2, Franklin – the chillest, doofiest dude:

Enjoying his temporary ribbon collar:

And finally Blossom (part of 3 siblings-- with Buttercup and Bubbles being owned by a family member) – who is referred to as every epithet but her own - LK (little kitty), $hitten (SO’s endearing name for her), Tiny Kitty, Tiny Sink Demon, Blossy, Bossy, TeenyDeeny, the list goes on. This little one was a feral capture who decided indoor life was way better.

[Zu_Zu]

I Adore ALL cats !