One study suggests that tortoiseshell cats are antisocial. But Catnip reader Kimberley Bullard says her own tortoiseshell, Ginger, is “very loving” (although “a scaredy cat” when company comes over).
A number of years ago, psychology researchers asked almost 200 people to assign personality traits to their cats. Among the choices: aloof, bold, calm, friendly, shy, stubborn, and tolerant. The investigators’ finding, laid out in the journal Anthrozoos: people tended to rate orange cats and cats of two colors as friendly. But cats of three […]
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