  Modeling the Schr\"{o}dinger cat by a two state system and assuming that the
cat is coupled to the environment we look for the least paradoxical states of
the Schr\"{o}dinger cat in the following way. We require the reduced density
matrix of the cat for one of the two states in the superposition to be the same
as the one for the total state while distinct from the reduced density matrix
of the cat for the other state in the superposition. We then look for the
reduced density matrices for which the cat is as alive as possible for the
first state (and as dead as possible for the second state). The resulting
states are those in which the probability for the cat to be alive (or dead) is
$1/2+\sqrt 2/4\approx 0.854$
