“Do you think the gender of cats makes a difference? Male cats are warmer, female cats colder?”
Again I have to say Absolutly NOT.
For example I have three males (Whiffy, Skeezix, and Buddy), and five females that I can hold without fear of being shredded. Two of those are my absolute favorites, and are female. “Boo”, and “Cooter”. “Callie”, and her daughters
“Niver” (short for conniver), and “Tiggy” are the others.
Our cats are all “rescues” directly from nature to us.
In 1994 we had 27 cats up at the barn. A neighbor at the time was irresponsible with his cat having never had the cat speyed. We finally took that cat away from him, and did it ourselves along with 26 of the others. Currently the four eighteen year olds are what remain of that crowd. The others have all come to us since then.
When I was a child we had a large black and white tom. For some odd reason, my mother did not have him “fixed” and he went on to sire endless generations of kittens. I must have been ten years old and I was standing on the porch of a neighbor who loved cats and had zillions of them. The smell was overwhelming!
“I love all cats,” she intoned and then her head swiveled around and she screamed “except THAT one!” I turned and, of course, saw my own beloved Niger nonchalantly walking down the block. He was the dad of all her cats.
I love your cat’s names. Two writers who adored cats: Hemingway and Shirley Jackson. Jackson claimed her cats wrote all her books.
Love the kitty names. I am also fond of ‘personality’ names for our cats.
Midnight (named by my wife before we met)
Pickle - orange male tabby, always in trouble
Dill - orange female tabby, looked like Pickle
Dust Bunny - feral rescue, would only hide under furniture at first.
Wobbles - has neural issues with her legs
Litters of rescued kittens
Bucket and Nugget
Clorox and Smudge
Plus and Minus
Gotta love the kitties