to choose a not so gorgeous cat?

[MaryGilbeaux]

I want a cat/kitten - I could look after it well, and give loads of snuggles. I've looked at rescue cats/kittens and they are all so cute.
Years ago I met a perfectly nice woman (I thought) who had a Siamese. She told me she was driving, saw this kitten on a wall, and just took him. No, we didn't become friends.
I also met someone who stole a Burmese, and someone who stole a Bengal.
(I know some lowlifes, but they don't seem so: appear ordinary people).
My household is open - doors, windows; my cat will be an outside cat?
So, get an an unprepossessing cat? They're all gorgeous!
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I love all cats. Cats are great. I was heartbroken when my adopted moggie was killed a couple of years ago on my birthday & just a year after my previous rescue cat died of old age-she was 21+

I decided to get an indoor cat so thought id get a maine coon as love big long hair cats. After a lot of research & deciding dc/DH were bound to leave a door open & cat would get out sometime, decided on a less stupid breed & ended up with a British shorthair & then another. They're amazing but v different personalities to each other. Eventually let them out slowly. They don't wander as far as my previous cats which I like, but like to go out, generally only in good weather & don't let them out at night.

Now, normal cats look weird to me as they haven't wee squashed faces like mine. Then again when dc1 was born & tiny & I spent ages staring at him, dh started looking weird so I called him bigface for a while

My rescue. With his one fang and goggly eyes

My BSH potters round the garden. We've catproofed it, but sometimes he escaes. He doesn't go far, just the neighbouring gardens, and always comes running for his Dreamies or if it starts raining
We don't let him out long. Half an hour here and there and never at night.
YANBU to get a less beautiful cat, but you can let the beautiful ones have fresh air safely.

Go for the unprepossessing ones! But because you are in a position to give them the love and care they need and where others would overlook them.

I deliberately took a little elderly cat that had been in the rescue centre for months. Had some health problems, but 3 years later still going and is incredibly sweet.

I picked the black cat who bit me at the rescue centre. 12 years on, I love him beyond reason. He and DH tolerate each other. He still bites me, and anyone else he can get his teeth into, but he doesn't mean any harm by it, and he's astonishingly gentle with DD.

Weeds, I just don't know what to say. He has to be one of the loveliest cats I've ever seen.

We always had rescue cats, and they've lasted to a good old age (16+).

We got a oldish black rescue cat last year. She'd been at the shelter for 8 months + because no one wants black cats. She's glossy, beautiful, gentle, doesn't wander far (think that's age and laziness, knows she's got it good here), affectionate. Currently curled up against my side purring so hard against a piece of paper that it's making a funny noise.

My mother got two cats from the same litter.

They were two shorthair boys, one is pure black the other is tabby.
Life with them is. tabby is very rarely home, he comes home to eat and a quick stroke then he's gone again but the black one, he is cuddle obsessed! He pops out for ten minutes (I think just to check he can leave if he wants to) but generally wants to be next to you at all times.