So here are our cats.

This is Abbey. She's medium-haired, about average sized for a cat, not particularly bright even by the undemanding standards of cats, and is very friendly. She's a moist cat - she likes to run her gums along your hands. No, there's nothing wrong with her teeth, she just likes it. Yuck.
This is Oreo:

And this is Oreo:

And this, and this:


Oreo is a BIG cat. He's about 17 lbs, and can stand on his hind legs and see over the kitchen counters. He's almost, but not quite, a long haired cat, although as far as I'm concerned he should qualify on the technicality of how much cat hair he sheds.
This is the cat that has gotten me killed more than once in zOMG, either by sitting on my arms so I can't type, or sitting on the keyboard and typing for me. Or head-butting my mousing hand so I click on the wrong thing.
He's insistent and loud and gentle and has a purr that you can hear all the way across the room. And he's a complete and utter coward, scampering to the basement whenever strangers walk into the house or the doorbell rings.
And here are the two of them together: