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adopting a cat is HARD!!
Dh and I have been wanting another kitty for some time. Our main motivation is that our cat is lonely. He is very smart and playful, which means he wakes me up three times a night!! So we went to the shelter tonight and narrowed it down to two kitties. I cannot decide! Any cat experts out there??
kitty#1 about 8months old, VERY high energy, but he nuzzled me! He was a character, he completely hid under his bed as if he was invisable lol. He was very confident. My concern is that he may be too high energy.
kitty #2 was very sweet. She was playful too, but had just been altered so she might have been sore. Perhaps she was taking it easy, but she clearly wanted to be a lap kitty. My concern with her is that she wont play with our current kitty.
We want to get one tomorrow, but I cannot decided. We are flip flopping, and my heart breaks fot the kitties that get left behind =(
Re: adopting a cat is HARD!!
I felt the urge to help you out with a little advise. We have a 10 year old female ragdoll rescue and adopted a male american shorthair 2 years ago. We were worried that our Queen was too inactive; guests would think she was a stuffed animal. Our little man is very high energy. We thought that after we got him fixed that he would mellow out but that didn't happen. It took 6 months for the two cats to become friends. The Queen hissed every chance she could but he adored her and broke down the cold defenses of the spoiled lady of the house. There personalities are so different. He is the most loving animal I have ever had. He even has other cat "friends" from the neighborhood that come and hang out with him in our yard-very cool. One word of caution: if your kitty is waking you up now several times a night-just wait until there is a friend to chase around. The game will become "race car" where they simulate the Indie 500 on your bed when your dead asleep. That was the game with my Queen and her sister many years ago.
Remember: You can't save them all. By adopting one little soul you have done a great deed. Unfortunately, there are just as many cats with homes as there are without. "Get you pets spade or neutered." Thanks Bob Barker.
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Honestly, I don't think it matters. It's so hard to judge how cats are going to act once they're comfortable vs. being at the pound.
When we first met our little Mikey, he was calm as could be. He showed his holy terror side a few days after we took him in. And my other cat was all nice and friendly at the shelter, but he turned out to be pretty aloof.
I would hope that No. 1 would stay playful and be a good partner for your current kitty, but who knows. (I do know I am so glad we got a second cat. Our aloof cat had some screwed up anger management problems that he would take out on us and it all stopped when he started playing with new kitty.)
how long did it take for them to start playing with eachother and start being friends?