14 Cats Living Up To Their Breed Stereotypes Brought To You By The ICanHasCheezburger Community

Listen, we have a hate-love relationship with stereotypes. On the one hand, they can be incredibly mean, demeaning, and simply not true. A poorly made judgment based on a stereotype could harm someone in more ways than one can imagine. For example, it could cost someone their career.

On the other hand, if taken lightly and always with a grain of salt, stereotypes could be harmless. And we have the perfect example to illustrate. We recently turned to our ICanHasCheezburger community over on Facebook and asked them to share their cat's breed and one stereotypical thing they do as a representative of that breed.

As per usual, our community of cat enthusiasts did not disappoint and fully understood the assignment. Not only did they answer all our questions and concerns, but they also provided some very credible cat tax.

While we wish we could include all hundreds of replies that we received, we did our best to include as many representatives as possible. We hope you enjoy!

01

via Maggie Yamashita

"my girl, Mochi, is. tortie maine coon. twice the attitude and is a model and. diva"
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02

via Janet Betts Dean

"Wolfgang Amadeus Katzart is a Nebelung. The breed name means Creature of the Mist. His main job is cuddling in my lap all day as I became his main hooman when he adopted me. He is friends with every one whether it be a person or dog or cat, and I have never heard him growl or hiss. He is simply majestic."
03

via Guy Roger Lariviere

"This is Elsa. She's a Bengal. She's a very loud singer when she doesn't get the attention that she feels she deserves"
04

via Marion Jansie

"Breed: dumpster ginger. (not even kidding, their mum gave birth to them in an almost empty paper dumpster on the university campus. Mum was to wild to rehome so she was spayed and released back on the campus where she was found, when the kittens were old enough of course.)
Share one brain cell between the two of them. Have never managed to create normal catlike sounds.
The one on the right is a shoulder cat.
The left one thinks he is a tough guy, but is literally a scaredy cat."
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05

via Marie Chapman

"This is Jackson, my toddler dog in a cat suit , he steals from my neighbours,plays fetch, his best friend is the neighbours dog. Everyone knows him in my neighbourhood as he just waltzes into everyones house good job they all love him"
06

via Landis Johnson

"80% American Short Hair and 20% Maine Coone. She is long and chirps more than she meows. Her name is Lady Michael. Her previous foster family thought she was a boy and she knows her cute name. She loves treats and expects play sessions every night I come home from work."
07

via Kathleen Anderson

"My beautiful, 18 pound ragamuffin named Texas aka "sink cat". Ragamuffins are said to like water and he truly does. If I'm running water he loves to run into the kitchen and sit in the sink! His fur actually repels water!"
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08

via Sarah Heatherly

"This is my bicolor Caesar. He's a big cuddly sassy boy with a lot of attitude."
09

via Cheryl Ripley

"My Prince... He's a wise guy, just like Smudge, the Table Cat..."
10

via Liz Wallace

"Maggie our British shorthair. Do not, I said do not pick me up!"
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11

via Natalja M. Seehase

"Stan and Olli are Sibiriens and love nothing more than cuddling"
12

via Alisha Pelance

"Feral rescued as a kitten - always has to prepare my black uniform pants with just the right amount of white cat hair."
13

via Laura Smith

"Flip and Flop
Calico kittens and VERY busy!!
They love to climb."
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14

via Rachelle Samuel

"Tux that likes to roll down stairs"