Cat breeds most likely to have anxiety / behavioural issues

[Mittens67]

I have always had moggies myself but I volunteered for Cats Protection as a local homing officer for many years so spoke to lots of people about their cats.
Although of course all cats can show behavioural issues which are often caused by either health or environmental factors, it did seem that with pedigree cats certain breeds were more sensitive to stress than others.
Does anyone else find that to be true?

My parents have a very highly strung neurotic Scottish fold. Although I highly suspect this is because they've turned into helicopter parents with him. He's pretty chilled if my sister or I are with him. My Persians have all been very chilled out. Two of them were quite nervous and a bit of a diva. The others ok. Only one was completely bomb proof.

My tortie's anxiety is off the scale.

This may not be very popular, but I think people with pedigrees are more likely to keep them inside and that's what leads to them developing behavioural issues.

Cats are hunters, roamers, explorers. They're not supposed to live locked inside four walls for their entire lives.

We rehomed a Burmese who is more chilled and way less neurotic than any of the moggies we’ve had (one of whom had severe anger and depression issues!) So I think it’s very dependent on the breed as well as the individual cat.

And ours is also an indoor cat @biscuitsandbooks

@pleasedonotfeedme obviously there's no guarantee either way, but I do think that if you take a creature designed to roam, hunt and explore and shut it away inside four walls for its' entire life, you're massively increasing the risk of behavioural issues and stress.

My cats used to be indoor cats and I used to post on here constantly about how they were fine indoors, then one developed UTI's and began over-grooming with stress - our vet basically said we could do XYZ but the best thing would be to let him outside. So, reluctantly, we did, and we've had zero issues ever since. No UTI's, no more over-grooming, no more problems. He's like a brand new cat.

I would never keep a cat indoors again. Mine are now thriving and I can't believe I kept them shut up inside for so long.

We have 2 Ragdolls. One is more sensitive and has behavioural issues (pees outside the litter tray). The other is a typical Ragdoll, laidback and good boy. The sensitive one has done this his whole life (he's 9)but will only do 1 pee, at most, outside the litter tray each day. Poos are always in the tray. They are proper pees, not marking either. Thankfully never the carpetted areas of our house, but the bath and hard floors (although he has tried the carpet on rare occasions😒). When I've researched it, it seems lots of people say their Ragdolls are like this. But I don't know if it's just them, or some cats in general (particularly males!)

I have a father & son Devon Rex.

Dad is completely zen, his son is highly strung and cannot cope with change to the point where we may have to find him a home with people who don't have visitors, will never decorate or rearrange furniture

I have a neurotic food-obsessed moggy and a chilled maine coon. It all depends on the cat...