世論 What Japan Thinks

DIMSDRIVE Research recently published the results of one of their ranking surveys, carried out in the middle of January amongst 5,782 members of their internet monitor group, 2,752 male, 3,030 female, to find out what kind of cat they’d like to keep as a pet.

This is a great excuse to publish a photo of the top-ranked and third-ranked breeds, Aria and Andy respectively, captured in a rare moment when they weren’t knocking lumps out of each other or aggravating my allergy with their hair!

The number who don’t want to keep cats is not recorded. Note that a Japanese cat most likely mean a mixed breed with a stubby tail, the most common wild and semi-wild cats you see around the streets here.

Q: In the future, what kind of cat might you like to keep? (Sample size=5,782, single answer, perhaps?)

Rank	Breed	Votes
1	American Short Hair	435
2	Tortoise-shell	263
3	Russian Blue	148
4	Moggy	136
5	Persian	103
6	Abyssinian	102
7	Chinchilla	76
8	Siamese	66
9	Japanese	63
10	Scottish fold	60

Q: In the future, what kind of cat might you like to keep? (Sample size=5,782, single answer, perhaps, by sex)

Rank	Breed	Male Votes N=2,752	Breed	Female Votes N=3,030
1	American Short Hair	149	American Short Hair	286
2	Tortoise-shell	122	Tortoise-shell	141
3	Moggy	60	Russian Blue	116
4	Persian	53	Abyssinian	79
5	Siamese	38	Moggy	76
6	Russian Blue	32	Scottish Fold	51
7	Chinchilla	31	Persian	50
8	Abyssinian	23	Chinchilla	45
9	Japanese	20	Japanese	43
10	Tiger Cat	13	Siamese	28

Looking at the detailed breakdown, the American Short Hair was the most popular for all bar the over sixties women (indeed, the same women also want to keep a pet American man), and tops for men in their twenties and thirties. Other interesting kinds of cats featuring in the ratings were black cats gathering a few votes from those in their twenties, and both Somali and Himalayan cats, breeds I’ve never heard of before, getting a few followers here and there.

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