What Is Feline-ality™?

Have we gone nuts? Nope, we’re just getting super-scientific, thanks to Feline-ality™, a research-based assessment of a cat’s behavior and interests that matches your preferences, as an adopter, with an animal’s behavior.

How Does Feline-ality work?

Let’s say you are looking to find the cat of your dreams. When you go to a shelter using the Feline-ality assessment, you’ll be asked to fill out a one-page Cat Adopter Survey .  It is only 19 questions about your lifestyle and how you envision your cat fitting in to this lifestyle. Sound kinda fun? It is—think magazine quiz, not college application.

Your results will tell the shelter what your “color” is—green, orange or purple.

In a nutshell:

• Green adopters are most successful with cats who quickly adapt to new situations.

• Purple adopters are perfect for kitties who need time and encouragement to adjust to their new surroundings.

• Orange adopters are a good fit with the quintessential companion kitty.

P.S. In case you haven’t figured it out yet, the kitties in the shelter know their true colors, too—so purple people meet purple felines, and then decide if they’re ready to paint the town…well, purple!

But don’t worry if you’d rather mix-and-match—adopters are not required to choose a cat with a particular feline-ality, and the assessment can prepare you for your new love’s response to her new home and help her adjust.

Meet the Feline-alities

So what’s a lean green kitty machine like? Orange you curious about cats who’ve been assigned to the orange team? A cat’s feline-ality is determined by her:

• enjoyment of being petted and held

• playfulness, “talkativeness” and activity level

• responses to new people and things.

See what a kitty’s color can tell you - check out the Feline-ality personality types:

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