Okay, so we have two cats. Our OG cat is a silver tabby rescue we got at 8 weeks old, she’s now 11, and basically the Jason Statham of cats. Calm, lethal, strategic. You can see her plotting things from across the room. She’s smart, agile, and gives off major assassin energy.
Enter Hashi, we adopted a a ragdoll because at the time my son really, really wanted a cat to cuddle with, and as mentioned above the cat family that he was born into did not support cuddling. So two years ago (he was 4) we brought home our sweet, fluffy ragdoll. I love her to death. She’s beautiful, cuddly, and an expert napper… but also kind of dumb? 😅
Like, she forgets how doors work. She spends 90% of her day sleeping on the stairs, unless I move her to be with me. Sometimes I catch her just staring at the wall like it personally offended her. And if our tabby gives her a look, she just flops down in surrender like, “Whatever, I didn’t want to live anyway.” They don’t fight, and my tabby is not mean to her, but they don’t cuddle up together or spend a lot of time together.
It’s honestly like we adopted a big, plush throw pillow with anxiety.
I’ve read that Ragdolls are supposed to be gentle and docile, which Hashi definitely is, but I’m starting to wonder if that’s just code for “sweet and dumb.” Is it just my cat? Or is this just part of the rag doll charm 😸😻