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I've had great cats that were both, but my last one had longer hair so I do tend to like floofy cats with bush tails and all. Might be a little more work in grooming and cleaning up.
No preference with me either. In all my Cat-Guardian career I've never actually gone out and 'chosen' a cat (and neither did my late wife). They always found their way to us in other ways. I can honestly say that if I ever went out to pick a cat the coat style would probably not figure into it very much at all. That said, I do find long-haired cats attractive in a way, just not something I would consider all that important.
I just remembered something based on cat dad's response. When I was going through a divorce, I wanted to adopt a cat. One of my sister's in laws had a stray litter of cats. I got the kitten no one wanted because he had short hair (all the rest in the litter had long hair) and adopted him sight unseen.
This became our Tucker, who, IMO was the most loving and devoted cat. Their loss = our major gain!
Fluffy ones lived with us for a long time. There were no kittens to be had within an hour's drive when we moved and SO decided that a house with no cats is empty about six months after TwoStep left us.
30 years or tortoise cats and we came home with two death row candidates. ChaCha - half Bengal, half squirrel bait and front declawed which took us a while to find out. Coat as short as it can get, shiny, silky, slick and does she shed up a storm! ShadowCat - a tortie who apparently lived in a dumpster between a Mexican restaurant and a break shop (at least by her only junk food which is Doritos Jacked and a good sniff of garage hands) who now has a coat that is nothing but think and shiny.
Both are characters, keep us on our toes and leave enough hair for Esmeralda, our fictions third cat
Try this - I had elbow long straight hair and met SO in public with no prewarning with short short curls. He kept me
Please let them pick you and keep an open mind. Looking at ChaCha sleeping like a kitten with one of her crippled front paws covering her eyes balled up in a cat tree perch next to me - .... .
We adopted three kittens from the same litter. Two of them (Molly and The Ball S**k) are grey and white short haired. Muffy is also grey and white, but long haired and very fluffy with a plume tail. Other than color, she looks nothing like her siblings. She was the kitten we (youngest daughter and I) chose, because of her fluffy coat, but when DH saw her siblings, he said "We can't split these guys up". So they all came home with us (to the disdain of our older cat, Bertha).
I wouldnt say I have a preference, Ive had both. That said I do currently have two fluffy cats (part norwegian forrest cats) which are provably the most beautiful cats Ive ever had.
I've had both as well but now after 13 years with two Ragdolls, I don't think I could live without a long haired Ragdoll again. But we usually let strays or rescues pick us no matter what they look like.
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