<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">Courtesy of MailOnline (London, England) at:</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; white-space: nowrap; 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margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px; "><font style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Gingers are the top cats for owners but tabbies are too temperamental</font></h1><ul style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px; text-align: left; "><li style="text-align: -webkit-auto;padding: 0px; margin: 0px; list-style: none; font-weight: bold; "><font style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font><br></font></font></li><li style="text-align: -webkit-auto;padding: 0px; margin: 0px; list-style: none; font-weight: bold; "><font style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font>Gingers are friendly and adorable, according to University of California research</font></font></li><li style="text-align: -webkit-auto;padding: 0px; margin: 0px; list-style: none; font-weight: bold; "><font style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font><br></font></font></li><li style="text-align: -webkit-auto;padding: 0px; margin: 0px; list-style: none; font-weight: bold; "><font style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font>Whites are seen as aloof and distant, tabbies are intolerant and black cats are unlucky and mysterious</font></font></li><li style="text-align: -webkit-auto;padding: 0px; margin: 0px; list-style: none; font-weight: bold; "><font style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font><br></font></font></li><li style="text-align: -webkit-auto;padding: 0px; margin: 0px; list-style: none; "><font style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font><span style="font-weight: bold; ">Concerns that 'feline stereotyping' is affecting adoption rates at animal shelters</span></font></font></li></ul><font style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="text-align: left; "><font></font></span></font><p></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px; "><font style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></font></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px; "><font style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Amongst humans, it has become a magnet for ridicule and discrimination.</font></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px; "><font style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></font></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px; "><font style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">But it turns out being ginger is actually quite cool - for cats.</font></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px; "><font style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></font></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px; "><font style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">New research shows ginger moggies are cat owners’ favourites, because they are perceived as friendly and lovable.</font></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px; "><font style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></font></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px; "><font style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In contrast, white cats are seen as aloof and distant, tabby cats as intolerant and black cats - as befits their depiction in folklore - as unlucky and mysterious.</font></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px; "><font style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></font></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px; "><font style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The study, by researchers at University of California, Berkeley, set out to examine the reasons why, in previous investigations, it was found that dark cats were more likely to be put down because their owners were unable to cope and that tabby cats were often handed over to shelters because they had too much ‘attitude’.</font></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px; "><font style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></font></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px; "><font style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The team behind the latest results say they are important because so-called ‘feline typecasting’ can have a negative effect on adoption rates at animal rescue shelters.</font></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px; "><font style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></font></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px; "><font style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Mikel Delgado, a psychology student who led the study, said: ‘There are serious repercussions for cats if people believe that some cat colours are friendlier than others.</font></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px; "><font style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></font></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px; "><font style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">‘We hope this will be a starting point for more research into whether there is a genetic or physical basis - such as coat colour - for personality differences in cats.</font></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px; "><font style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></font></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px; "><font style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">‘Previous research supports the existence of ‘black cat syndrome’, where black and brown cats are less likely to be adopted than cats of other colours.’</font></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px; "><font style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></font></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px; "><font></font></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px; "><font><font>The team recruited 189 cat owners in California and asked them to rate, on a scale of one to seven, the personalities of different coloured cats.</font></font></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px; "><font><font>The traits they were presented with ranged from active, aloof and bold to shy, friendly and trainable.</font></font></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px; "><font><font><br></font></font></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px; "><font><font></font></font></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px; "><font><font><font>The findings, published in the journal Anthrozoos, showed pet owners view ginger cats as friendly and approachable.</font></font></font></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px; "><font><font><font><br></font></font></font></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px; "><font><font><font>White ones were perceived as somewhat aloof, shy, lazy and calm and tabbies intolerant but trainable.</font></font></font></p><font style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><font><span style="text-align: left; "><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); text-align: -webkit-auto; "><br></div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto; "><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px; "><font style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Black cats, on the other hand, had the reputation of being anti-social and mysterious.</font></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px; "><font style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Britain has an estimated eight million cats and nearly one in five households has at least one as a pet.</font></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px; "><font style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></font></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px; "><font style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">But alarming new figures from the charity Cat Protection suggest increasing numbers of owners are being forced to abandon their animals because they can no longer afford to keep them in the economic crisis.</font></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px; "><font style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></font></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px; "><font style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The charity and the RSPCA receive around 31,000 calls reporting stray cats a year - up a third since 2009.</font></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px; "><font style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></font></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px; "><font style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">It’s feared the number of stray cats in Britain is at an all-time high and is being further fuelled by the fact that some owners have become amateur breeders to supplement their income.</font></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px; "><font style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></font></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px; "><font style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">---------------</font></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px; "><font style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></font></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px; "><font style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Ginger cats are viewed as friendly and lovable, according to new research.</font></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px; "><font style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></font></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px; "><font style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img src="cid:CB8166DE-8D24-46D2-8BF4-1BB694ECE614" alt="article-0-03CA68CF0000044D-161_233x423.jpg" id="CB8166DE-8D24-46D2-8BF4-1BB694ECE614" width="233" height="423"></font></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px; "><font style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></font></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; 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Black cats are seen as harbingers of bad luck and are regarded with suspicion.</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><img src="cid:23C4F157-A39A-46CD-B5A1-A639A64DAB48" alt="article-0-0122CF7D00000578-284_468x438.jpg" id="23C4F157-A39A-46CD-B5A1-A639A64DAB48" width="468" height="438"></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; ">---------------</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><br></div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Aloof: White cats are regarded as shy and distant, according to the research by the University of California.</span></div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto; "><img src="cid:4CE72EDC-3CDA-4621-BA1E-F85919D73C1A" alt="article-0-0005752F00000190-504_468x337.jpg" id="4CE72EDC-3CDA-4621-BA1E-F85919D73C1A" width="468" height="337"></div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto; "> </div></span></div></span></font></font></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">-------------------------------------<br><br><div>Seeya round town, Moscow, because . . .</div><div><br></div><div>"Moscow Cares"</div><div><a href="http://www.MoscowCares.com">http://www.MoscowCares.com</a></div><div> </div><div><div>Tom Hansen</div><div>Moscow, Idaho</div><div> </div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>