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what's your favorite cat breed and why?

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  • Azexas
    Azexas Posts: 4,334 Member
    Maine Coon.. cause I want a big cat. HoneyBadger out.

    I have one. She has been the best tempered cat I've had. She's going on 15 now :o
  • LionessWhispers
    LionessWhispers Posts: 69 Member
    _John_ wrote: »
    Ligers and tigons usually suffer from gigantism or dwarfism, respectively. This causes their hearts and other organs to struggle and they generally live short lives. They're prone to things like cardiomegaly and painful bones and joints. I wish people would stop breeding them just for the sake of making lots of money off of the poor animals.

    Poor animal? and how exactly does it ever live if people don't bread them?
    Yes... but a thing isn't beautiful because it lasts. It is a privilege to be among them.

    They are not animals that would ever exist naturally in nature. Humans choose to breed them because they are a spectacle that people will pay money to see. I've worked with ligers and tigons that were cast aside because of their incredibly expensive medical bills. They all lived short lives but the people who dumped them in the first place didn't care because they were making thousands of dollars on the next ones already.
    The animal's quality of life should matter. They shouldn't be breeding them.
  • kbmnurse
    kbmnurse Posts: 2,484 Member
    None.
  • OneHundredToLose
    OneHundredToLose Posts: 8,523 Member
    _John_ wrote: »
    Ligers and tigons usually suffer from gigantism or dwarfism, respectively. This causes their hearts and other organs to struggle and they generally live short lives. They're prone to things like cardiomegaly and painful bones and joints. I wish people would stop breeding them just for the sake of making lots of money off of the poor animals.

    Poor animal? and how exactly does it ever live if people don't bread them?
    Yes... but a thing isn't beautiful because it lasts. It is a privilege to be among them.

    They are not animals that would ever exist naturally in nature. Humans choose to breed them because they are a spectacle that people will pay money to see. I've worked with ligers and tigons that were cast aside because of their incredibly expensive medical bills. They all lived short lives but the people who dumped them in the first place didn't care because they were making thousands of dollars on the next ones already.
    The animal's quality of life should matter. They shouldn't be breeding them.

    The vast majority of animals that are currently useful to humans wouldn't exist in their current forms without humans breeding them. House cats and dogs are the most obvious example of that.
  • _incogNEATo_
    _incogNEATo_ Posts: 4,537 Member
    _John_ wrote: »
    Ligers and tigons usually suffer from gigantism or dwarfism, respectively. This causes their hearts and other organs to struggle and they generally live short lives. They're prone to things like cardiomegaly and painful bones and joints. I wish people would stop breeding them just for the sake of making lots of money off of the poor animals.

    Poor animal? and how exactly does it ever live if people don't bread them?
    Yes... but a thing isn't beautiful because it lasts. It is a privilege to be among them.

    They are not animals that would ever exist naturally in nature. Humans choose to breed them because they are a spectacle that people will pay money to see. I've worked with ligers and tigons that were cast aside because of their incredibly expensive medical bills. They all lived short lives but the people who dumped them in the first place didn't care because they were making thousands of dollars on the next ones already.
    The animal's quality of life should matter. They shouldn't be breeding them.

    ha
  • LionessWhispers
    LionessWhispers Posts: 69 Member
    The vast majority of animals that are currently useful to humans wouldn't exist in their current forms without humans breeding them. House cats and dogs are the most obvious example of that.
    Umm I'm sorry but how are ligers "useful to humans"? House cats and dogs are bred for companionship or jobs that assist humans, yes. What are ligers bred for? People are choosing to breed them knowing that they will live a short and painful life. You support breeding a hybrid animal knowing that it will be living in pain and want to equate it to the happy house cats in the photos above?

  • OneHundredToLose
    OneHundredToLose Posts: 8,523 Member
    Umm I'm sorry but how are ligers "useful to humans"?

    Didn't say they were. I was just pointing out that your argument about them not existing without mankind's intervention isn't a sound one, since that's true for literally hundreds of other species.

  • LionessWhispers
    LionessWhispers Posts: 69 Member
    They are not animals that would ever exist naturally in nature.

    ha
    Yay! Somebody saw it! :smiley:
  • LionessWhispers
    LionessWhispers Posts: 69 Member

    Didn't say they were. I was just pointing out that your argument about them not existing without mankind's intervention isn't a sound one, since that's true for literally hundreds of other species.

    What? Lol did you read what I responded to? That was my response to the question "how exactly does it ever live if people don't [breed] them?" I was stating that they don't. They don't exist if people don't breed them because they are not found in nature.
  • OneHundredToLose
    OneHundredToLose Posts: 8,523 Member

    Didn't say they were. I was just pointing out that your argument about them not existing without mankind's intervention isn't a sound one, since that's true for literally hundreds of other species.

    What? Lol did you read what I responded to? That was my response to the question "how exactly does it ever live if people don't [breed] them?" I was stating that they don't. They don't exist if people don't breed them because they are not found in nature.

    That doesn't change the fact that saying they only exist because people breed them is irrelevant. That's pretty much true of all domesticated animals as well as many animals that are forced to live in zoos.
  • Escloflowne
    Escloflowne Posts: 2,038 Member
    People who walk cats on leashes are just cray cray and need to be locked up!

    I.C.E. Cream Official Tester
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    Been in fitness for about 2 years and have studied kitty-gif-ology, nutrition and Dinosaurs
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  • jofjltncb6
    jofjltncb6 Posts: 34,415 Member
    People who walk cats on leashes are just cray cray and need to be locked up!

    I.C.E. Cream Official Tester
    IKEA Professional Put Together-er
    Kickboxing Class Attender
    Been in fitness for about 2 years and have studied kitty-gif-ology, nutrition and Dinosaurs

    Remember the jogging stroller for the cat? That was a classic.

    Was probably nuked though.
  • jo_madre
    jo_madre Posts: 875 Member
    edited November 2015
    Pu$$y! My favorite cat breed is the pu$$y cat.

    Dang! No what's wrong with a pu$$y cat?
  • LionessWhispers
    LionessWhispers Posts: 69 Member

    That doesn't change the fact that saying they only exist because people breed them is irrelevant. That's pretty much true of all domesticated animals as well as many animals that are forced to live in zoos.

    Except that it IS irrelevant because I never used that as a reason for why they shouldn't exist. I provided legitimate reasons as to why I don't believe people should be breeding them.
    I only pointed out that they only exist by human intervention because the person asked how they would exist if humans did not breed them. I'm sorry that you confused my answer to the OP's question with me providing a reason. They are two separate things.
  • ValerieMartini2Olives
    ValerieMartini2Olives Posts: 3,024 Member
    I used to love dogs but after owning the world's stupidest beagle and working in a dog grooming place with a lunatic boss, I don't care for dogs at all anymore. Cats are awesome and fit way better into my lifestyle. I'd be lost without by freaky 6-toed cat.
  • PurringMyrrh
    PurringMyrrh Posts: 5,276 Member
    Azexas wrote: »
    Finnish Forest cats

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    Nice!

    I'm going with the Norwegian Forest. So amazing! We had one for 23 years that was a total bada$s. Looked almost identical to...
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  • _John_
    _John_ Posts: 8,646 Member
    jo_madre wrote: »
    Pu$$y! My favorite cat breed is the pu$$y cat.

    Dang! No what's wrong with a pu$$y cat?

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  • _incogNEATo_
    _incogNEATo_ Posts: 4,537 Member
    I used to love dogs but after owning the world's stupidest beagle and working in a dog grooming place with a lunatic boss, I don't care for dogs at all anymore. Cats are awesome and fit way better into my lifestyle. I'd be lost without by freaky 6-toed cat.

    Don't make this a dog-shaming thread. You should be ashamed.
  • ValerieMartini2Olives
    ValerieMartini2Olives Posts: 3,024 Member
    I used to love dogs but after owning the world's stupidest beagle and working in a dog grooming place with a lunatic boss, I don't care for dogs at all anymore. Cats are awesome and fit way better into my lifestyle. I'd be lost without by freaky 6-toed cat.

    Don't make this a dog-shaming thread. You should be ashamed.

    Not sorry in the least.
  • Azexas
    Azexas Posts: 4,334 Member
    Azexas wrote: »
    Finnish Forest cats

    Maine-Coon-cat-magnus-02.jpg

    Nice!

    I'm going with the Norwegian Forest. So amazing! We had one for 23 years that was a total bada$s. Looked almost identical to...
    nfo_fife_lrg.jpg

    It's so fluffy!
  • Determined_ella_89
    Determined_ella_89 Posts: 1,710 Member
    Maine coon because they are so similar to dogs.... Gentle giants x
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  • verptwerp
    verptwerp Posts: 3,628 Member
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    domestic shorthair "rescue" kitties <3
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  • earlnabby
    earlnabby Posts: 8,171 Member
    Regarding cat breeds that would not exist in nature: most of what we see in the domestic house cat breeds DO exist in nature, just not in the quantity that we see. People see a trait that they like (short hair, long hair, no hair, etc) and combine similar looking cats to maintain that trait. Even the rumpy and stumpy Manx cats are a naturally occurring trait. Same with the ears of the Scottish Fold and the American Curl. What I don't like is perpetuating things that would not allow the cat to survive in the wild, like super short legs. I also do not like interbreeding species that would not breed together on their own (like the housecat/Asian Leopard cat combo that produced the Bengal and the Serval/housecat combo that produces the Savannah). Tinkering with nature like that is wrong.

    My favorite is still the "who knows what" shelter cat like my Mr. Hector:
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    Although I love Coonies too, like Miss Mika:
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  • JinxedyJinx
    JinxedyJinx Posts: 50 Member
    Kitties! I love any type of cat! But long haired orange tabbies are the sweetest... They always seem exceptionally friendly.
  • lisalsd1
    lisalsd1 Posts: 1,519 Member
    I don't have a favorite breed...I just like fat ones.
  • _incogNEATo_
    _incogNEATo_ Posts: 4,537 Member
    Maximus wrote: »
    Dead ones are good
    jmule24 wrote: »
    Dead.... Is that a breed?

    These guys have the right idea. I'm not a proper cat owner. The only one I ever had did back flips across the living room (on the couch of course) when I was about 10. ALWAYS landed on her feet.




    I may get another one, that's bringing back so many memories :trollface:
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