Cat Tips

Cat’s color won’t give you much clue to its personality

January 20th, 2009 |

Author: admin

My wife and I have had many cats in 37 years of marriage. It seems that it is always the black ones that are most demanding of affection and meow the most to get what they want. Is this true of black cats in general?

You can’t really predict a cat’s personality by the color of its fur any more than you can tell what people will be like by the color of their hair.

I mean, "dumb blonde" and "fiery redhead" are not particularly reliable guideposts on the road of life, are they?

That said, there are a few broad generalizations you can make in this matter. For instance, all-white cats maybe tend to be unfriendly because they often carry genes for blindness or deafness. Gray cats are said to be docile. But even stuff like that isn’t always true.

One thing I read said black cats are more closely related to their wild ancestors than other cats. The idea is that being black made them harder to see so they were among the last to be domesticated.

Thus, black cats are said to be good hunters. No word on them being unusually loud or affectionate.

Reach Thompson at clay .thompson@arizonarepublic.com.