I get so envious when I see the pictures on here of two cats cuddling together. It seems like they're usually two short haired cats I'm about 1 month into the introduction of Aspen (2 1/2 year old female long hair - white with orange points, bluish/purplish eyes) into my home where Pumpkin, my 7 year old, orange and white short hair male already resides. They've never actually fought, although Aspen sometimes stalks and chases him and he just runs. I'm not completely sure if this is playing yet, but she took the stalking posture with me this morning as I was coming down the steps and I sure hope she was playing then.
She spends almost all her time on my back porch and seems either hesitant or uninterested in coming into my bedroom or my study where I read a lot of the time (and where Pumpkin is often curled up with me). Sometimes Pumpkin also spends time on a raised bed I have for him out on the screen porch, but I've never seen them sit close together (they have smelled noses and bottoms before).
Since the cats I usually see in pictures cuddled together seem to be short haired, do you all think or have you noticed that short haired cats have any more propensity to be cat-oriented than long haired ones? I don't know if hair length affects temperament but I thought it could since other things like color seem to.
Also, are cats intrinsically dominant/alpha or submissive or are these labels only relative depending on the other cats that are around?
Thanks in advance for your answers/opinions.
She spends almost all her time on my back porch and seems either hesitant or uninterested in coming into my bedroom or my study where I read a lot of the time (and where Pumpkin is often curled up with me). Sometimes Pumpkin also spends time on a raised bed I have for him out on the screen porch, but I've never seen them sit close together (they have smelled noses and bottoms before).
Since the cats I usually see in pictures cuddled together seem to be short haired, do you all think or have you noticed that short haired cats have any more propensity to be cat-oriented than long haired ones? I don't know if hair length affects temperament but I thought it could since other things like color seem to.
Also, are cats intrinsically dominant/alpha or submissive or are these labels only relative depending on the other cats that are around?
Thanks in advance for your answers/opinions.