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What's your favorite colour of cat? Also, is it morally wrong to choose a cat based on color? (reddthat.com)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by WtfEvenIsExistence@reddthat.com to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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This is not meant to be discriminatory. Every cat is beautiful, but which which color do you personally prefer?

I personally like orange cats or orange/white mix, but I couldn't find one at the rescue that was set up at PetSmart so I was depressed, lonely and I was desparate for the love of cats got so I just adopted a tabby brown cat.

My least preferred colors are pure white or pure black cats, but I somehow still like a mix white/black cat. I mean, if one showed up to my door and was friendly and had a great personality, I'd take him/her in, but I probably wouldn't be looking for those color of cats if I were looking to adopt a cat in a shelter/rescue.

Are you being a bad person by picking cats based on their color? To be honest, if there was an orange cat at the PetSmart I'd likely not have chosen my tabby brown. I kinda feel horrible for thinking this way, but I mean, it's just like this weird feeling, this attachment to specific color cats. I just loved orange cats so much. But once I gotten to know my tabby brown, I now prefer tabby browns as much as orange cats.

Again, every cat is beautiful, but I just have weird preferences for some over others for some odd reason.

Edit: To be clear, I was looking for ANY cats, but I wanted an orange one if possible, but if not, I would've taken ANY cat. I didn't care that much, I just wanted some cuddles with a warm little fellow living being.

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[–] masterspace@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I mean, don't beat yourself up too much about it, it's a pretty normal feeling, and there's a decent chance all of our cat based emotions are caught up in complicated fungal infection web, but I would push back lightly in saying that I felt what you're feeling and had a strong preference for female short haired calicos since I was very close to ours growing up, but in the ensuing ~17 years, I've lived with, taken care of, and grown to love a large number of different cats, and these days it's a lot easier to see through the fur to the personality, so to speak.

It sounds like you're experiencing a cognitive bias towards the type of cats you've been close with, or just biased because of some other phenomena (maybe you had a bad experience in an all white ikea kitchen or whatever), but cognitive biases are a normal part of how are fast thinking brains work, quickly, but wildly biased at times. The important part is not to beat yourself up about it until you're in an anxiety loop, just use your slow thinking brain to recognize it as a normal somewhat biased reaction that you can probably see through if you squint real hard. This is a good video on the two different systems of thinking that your brain uses: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBVV8pch1dM