Another contentious issue

Ana gorgeous kitten. Just what I'd like but I don't want to pay pedigree prices.

I love the British Blue shorthaired cat my neighbour has called Frederick he is so handsome and has a lovely blue hint to his coat,I find it amusing when he is being called in at a night time anyone listening would think she is calling in her hubby from a night out on the tiles.I also have a fondness for ginger toms who all seem to have oversized heads for some strange reason they carry themselves as though they own the territory they prowl about in.

My SIL has just acquired two Havana Brown kittens. Never seen or heard of them before but they're bred from Siamese and are completely chocolate brown. Very unusual. I love all colours of kittens but prefer cats of character regardless of shade.

Cats upset me with their bird killing shenanigans but I can't help finding them appealing even so. Especially kittens. I guess I love all sorts of kittens, even maggies moggies

We had a British Shorthair silver tabby and she was the worst cat I ever had for killing things. I read up on them afterwards and it did say the silver tabbies were renowned for that. Not sure why [maybe their colour makes it easier for them to catch things?]. Apart from that she had the sweetest nature. Had a long haired black cat with a white bib and paws and he was called Hudson, after the butler.

Love that kitten. We had three Persians - the three Ts- but they were a devil to keep in good nick especially Toby - he was vicious - even the vet refused to dezl with him at one time.

Here's Baz : faithful companion and box lover. Can't seem to turn the image round - sorry

It seems a little pointless to prefer one colour rather than another as cats choose you not the other way round. Consequently I have had a ginger tom, a black and white female, a tabby and now another black and white female - Purdy Puss who walked in as a small feral kitten almost a year ago. I think character is much more important and certainly the last 3 (who chose me) have been nicer cats than the ginger tom who was chosen from a litter by DD when she was 5.

a bit of contention at last!

My favourites are silver tabbies but my last pair were ginger. I went to a local rescue and they had twelve ginger kittens, ferals who had been trapped and separated from their mums at 4 weeks old to help socialise them. They were still pretty wild.
My boys played and slept together for 2 1/2 happy years then one was run over. His brother George is still searching and grieving 8 months later.

Oh I love ginger cats. There's one in the next village who sits by the side of the road watching the world go by. His owners moved away but the new residents agreed to look after him because it seemed unfair to make him leave 'his patch'. His name is Ginger by the way. I've always found ginger cats to be more vocal than other colours.

Well although kittens are undeniably adorable, I don't like cats because I want must be in charge!

It's a well known fact that really, I love dogs. However, I've shared my life with a tabby I loved and if I could, I'd love to own one of those huge American Coon cats. Glorious glorious creatures and the kittens are beyond gorgeous. The adult coon cats are rather like dogs, though they, like all cats, must be in charge.

I like black kittens best because they are the Undercats of the cat world - they are the kittens least wanted and most likely to be killed off or dumped. They are reputed to be unlucky, which is why, it is thought, people don't want them. Who'd have thought that people could still be so superstitious in this day and age! It makes me want one just so that people will think I am a witch and my cat is my familiar.

I have had tabbies, white, ginger, black and black and white, but am not owned by one at present. All beautiful and not a pink eye to be seen (I don't like it either!). However if a little black kitten came calling I would give it a home.

My best cat ever was a little black cat called Douglas. Was a stray kitten on the Isle of Man and my husband brought him back on his motorbike in a cardboard box. Nearly forty years later it still hurts to think of him. Don't think a dearer little creature has ever lived.

Awww tegan. Iam64 Baz in the picture above is a Maine Coon. He's the archetypal gentle giant. Puts up with so much from little GSs and never been known to ever raise a paw to anyone. Lovely boy with a lovely temperament

Here's my Maine Coon cat, she's called Mo.

Oh, what a beauty she is posie!

Thank you Ana. She doesn't catch mice etc., she thinks she's too posh!

I like gingers and tortoiseshells but my favourites are white cats. At the moment I have a very pretty grey and white one.

You might think this is a totally silly question, but can you breed cats to a specific colour e.g will a black mummy cat and daddy cat necessarily have black kittens, or is it random?
Are socks hereditary too?

We have owned black, black and white, ginger, grey and white, tabby and tortoiseshell. The most beautiful was the tortoiseshell. She had quite thick longish hair with stunning markings and even as an adult had huge dark green eyes. She had the most gentle nature, even as a kitten. Never scratched or bit. The whole family loved her. I can still see her huge eyes looking at me while I held her as she was dying. Still feel weepy thinking about it. I cried for days

Black. Our cats have always been black and white, apart from a jet black feral kitten called Archie, who was such a character. He adored DH and used to sit up next to him on the sofa like a little man, back to the sofa back, front paws crossed. His paw pads and eyes were black, even the whites of his eyes were grey, which is probably why he was once attacked by a fox he surprised in the dark. The vet stitched up his jugular and we mopped up the blood that spurted all over our walls, only for him to succumb to a tumour a year later, only 3 years old. I still miss him.

Snap whitewave also had kitten called Friday came home in my then new husbands inside pocket , ahh ... just remembering. He was black with one white paw. I have now got two ginger pussys (Norwegian forest) that I inherited after my father passed away. We got them as kittens for company for my father+ didn't want to separate them as they were brothers. One is shy + has suffered a stroke he recovered and has what our vet called a sexy walk the other is as mad as a hatter will swing from the lamp shades or door. He plays ball in the garden and pre DGC would on command jump our pond ( it is an unpond now) He has met his match with DGS chasing him round the garden. Looking forward to when DD gets a kitten for DGC