Cat cards

I like cats. You might even go as far as to say that I am a 'cat person'. However, I don't consider myself very extreme in my cat love. Okay, I am wearing a shirt with a cat on it at the moment, but it's one of only 2 I have (the other one says "Are you kittin' me?") and it's very cool, and not something like 'Jesus was a cat'  or a pastel-coloured pencil drawing of a kitten in a basket of flowers or something.
Which exactly exemplifies the two groups of 'cat people' that you can find in the world, in my opinion: the ones that focus on the cats independence and coolness, and the ones that focus on the cat's prettiness and fluffiness.
Now this is not something I think about on most days (ah, what a quiet life I would have if I could...) but today I received two cat postcards that got me thinking about this. Let me present them to you:

Exhibit A:

HK-221737 received 13 March 2014

And exhibit B:

DE-2903757 received 13 March 2014

Do you get what I mean?
When I ask for 'cat postcards'  on Postcrossing, I'm talking about type A: pictures that show off a cat's independence, stubbornness, innate relaxedness, just how they are as solitary creatures. Picture B to me shows a scared, fluffed-up, cuted-up baby that can't really think for itself.

And that has nothing to do with me not liking long-haired cats, because you can have the 'majestic independence' in those types of cats too:

FI-1853936 received 15 September 2013

It's mainly the 'deer in the headlights' look, or the combination of cats with other cute things, such as roses (as in this card, and here too), bunnies (here, although this cat does look like it has a mind of its own, and the bunny knows it) fishbowls (here) and vacant expressions (here).
So somehow, it is pretty rare to get a cat-card that shows the cat the way I think they are. Maybe that proves my cat-worldview is faulty, or maybe it proves that cats do not photograph easily (which I can attest to personally), or don't really want to show themselves on camera. Whatever the reason, but when I do get one like the first card above, it makes it extra special, which is nice in a way too.