I have two black domestic shorthair sisters, and I sometimes have trouble telling them apart.
Artemis has shorter, blacker hair, a longer, thinner tail, is about 10 lbs, and has a patch of missing hair on the back of her neck (
scar tissue from mishap during our move across the country). Athena has slightly longer, browner, less smooth hair, is only 8 lbs, and has a thin horizontal line of white hairs on the bridge of her nose.
And if I don't have my glasses on, or I'm looking at them in poor light (which sometimes feels like anything but full sunlight), or I'm a few feet from them, I often don't know who I'm looking at. Their behavior is very different, so when they move and interact with anything (chair, foodbowl, me, whatever), it's immediately obvious who is who, and when they are right next to each other I can always figure it out very quickly.
But what do you breeders, who have cats bred to have similar dispositions, similar shape, and similar coat colors do to tell your cats apart? I imagine it is particularly difficult with a litter of young kittens, but, looking at many of your pictures in your sigs, I wonder how you do it even with adults!
Artemis has shorter, blacker hair, a longer, thinner tail, is about 10 lbs, and has a patch of missing hair on the back of her neck (
And if I don't have my glasses on, or I'm looking at them in poor light (which sometimes feels like anything but full sunlight), or I'm a few feet from them, I often don't know who I'm looking at. Their behavior is very different, so when they move and interact with anything (chair, foodbowl, me, whatever), it's immediately obvious who is who, and when they are right next to each other I can always figure it out very quickly.
But what do you breeders, who have cats bred to have similar dispositions, similar shape, and similar coat colors do to tell your cats apart? I imagine it is particularly difficult with a litter of young kittens, but, looking at many of your pictures in your sigs, I wonder how you do it even with adults!