Feline lucky? 'eHarmony for cats' will pick the purr-fect pet to match your personality

If you have always wanted a cat, but can't choose between a plump and lazy tabby or a playful and slinky Siamese, a new online service could help. Experts have come up with an algorithm to match cats looking for a home with would-be doting owners, based on their personality. PawsLikeMe has been likened to eHarmony and hopes to make people's choices'more than fur deep' so less cats will need re-homing again. The Orlando Florida-based initiative built an algorithm to match dogs with new owners last year and since then, two million people in the US have used the'first ever human-to-pet matching algorithm' to find a furry friend. It claims to be 90 per cent accurate in predicting people-to-pet compatibility. Now it's raising money on Indiegogo to collect enough funds to roll out a version for cats.