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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You can absolutely adopt a singleton cat, just not a kitten. Kittens suffer if they aren't socialized properly and are usually very active and playful. Thus the shift to requiring they be adopted in pairs. If you're not willing to adopt a cat that's one year old+, that's your issue and an indication that you're only thinking of your own interests vs. a baby animal's well being.[/quote]

That is a myth that cats need to live in pairs.[/quote]

My experience is that if they are in pairs they tend to bond more with each other than the human. The only thing is you have to be up for some serious kitten rowdiness (which I would have no problem with). [/quote]

This hasn't been our experience.  Our two kittens were adopted together and never bonded together.  Flash forward to a few years later where we adopted two sister kittens off the street and our one kitty has bonded with them![/quote]

Yep.  You'd think I'd learn this ^ since I've had multiple cats for 30 years.  You really can't predict which cats are going to be bonded partners and which aren't.

We got a 2nd cat to be a friend to 1st cat when 1st cat was 1-yr old and pestering the hell out of the dog to play cat games.    1st cat stopped torturing the dog, switched to provoking the new 2nd cat, and never bonded with 2nd cat.

2nd cat — alone, young, and without cat friends — bonded deeply with the …. dog.  2nd cat thinks he's a dog.  [/quote]

Two cats who were not from the same litter rarely bond. They will most likely hate each other. Cats are not pack animals, but often (but now always) they will be pals and playmates  with littermates. It’s not a good idea to get a second cat ‘later’ as a companion to the first.  [/quote]

^ that is 100% false

if you've ever had more than one cat, you'd know how much they socialize - they play, they sleep together, they do all kinds of things. they are friends. and, no, not just if they came form the same litter![/quote]

Exactly, this is insanity! My dog and cat sleep in the dog bed curled up together.  They are not even the same SPECIES and they groom each other, play with each other, and sleep together. My dog is older than my cat and I'm already so worried about the day our dog dies because our cat will be so so depressed.[/quote]

<3 that is so sweet to think of your cat's emotional wellbeing like that. I wish our pets would live forever. [/quote]

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