Silver, I'll tell you this: don't assume that short hair= less hair around the house and long hair = more.
It has very much been my experience that short hair cats often produce way, way more "shed" hair than long haired cats.
Shedding will be very much a cat-specific and season-specific issue, and the fact that you're looking during the winter is going to have an effect.
Prepare yourself to have cat hair all over your life, that is going to be your reality and you will be happier if you accept it now.
Unless he gets a Sphynx. Zero shed. The flipside is the cat needs a bath once a week. The good news is they love a warm bath, anything that emits heat.
Left field, but this thread makes me think of a kids in the hall skit:
Hilarious, self involved paranoia. Instead of getting a cat and enjoying a bit of the ride, the mentality is about what could go wrong and how to prevent it. No good :-)
Hey guys. D-day is upon us. We pick up our cat in a week or so. As the day approaches, I'm getting nervous about having an animal in my home. I can't get out of this now, though.
I found some great cages at www.habitathaven.com (click on cat's den, then cat enclosures). They also sell this line of enclosures at a place in Calgary, apparently. Anyway, part of me thinks it's not the nicest thing to put a cat in a cage, then again when we went to the SPCA they keep all their cats in cages that are 10x crappier than these ones. Plus I could move the cage into my house, into the garage and even outside on nice days so that might even be better then having the cat couped up in my house 24/7 365.
You never know, the cat may end up not being a narcissistic, butt-licking ####### and instead being a gracious, courteous feline. Bonus if he even pays for his board and rent.
Not likely though. Cats are smug wankers who will poop on your face if it meant getting all the delicious food out of your fridge.
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Didn't read whole thread but why get a pet that's larger than a chocolate bar if you are going to keep it caged ?
I have what I consider a nice house, and try to keep the soft paws on my cat (a definite must - don't even ask the vets about declawing or they will look at you like you just tried to sell your infant son's kidneys at the hospital). Unfortunately she chews them off all the time and sometimes I slack for a while, and she's scratched up walls in basically every room in my house, including weirdly trying to climb a dividing wall between my kitchen and hallway.. She can get impressively high.
At first it bugged me, being a new house, now a few years later I just accept that I have to paint soon anyway to keep things looking fresh since I ding up the walls quite a bit myself.
I have a rag doll, and she's awesome, but also a total ass sometimes and she only recently became personable to strangers (took almost 2 years).
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