This sounds like an urban legend to me. In my case:Originally Posted by Ashley45
Will Moses and the new kitten bond better if the kitten looks like him? Or does it not matter? I read here that someone had a cat that really bonded to another cat that looked just like them.
That is so sweet!The lie together on the window sill together and take turns using each other's head as a pillow.
You have a very good memory! Yes, that is very true and also remember that Alley was shipped to me from a shelter in L.A., so lots of trauma in Alley's life. And yes, I got on this site very afraid that they would never get along together but the nice people here soothed my feelings and I waited it out and finally Alley came out from under the bed, and look at them now!!Originally Posted by Ashley45
That is so sweet!
Its good to know that they'll bond with different looking cats.
I want to look for a similar personality, but I'm concerned that in a shelter situation, any new kitten will seem a little frightened and his/her new colors won't really shine through.
Persi&Alley, if I remember right, when I was first researching about cats before getting Moses over a year ago, didn't your cats not like each other at first? How long did it take them to get along?
I wouldn't say that. Often it's the cat or kitten that picks you.Originally Posted by Ashley45
I'm sure that in the end, I'll get picked by the kitten, not the other way around....
That's what I meant.Often it's the cat or kitten that picks you
Originally Posted by Ashley45
That's what I meant.
I would never have thought that! I've always thought cats had little sense of visual identification of one another. I thought they relied almost entirely on smell to identify one another.Originally Posted by Kai Bengals
At the moment I have 4 marble kittens, 1 adolescent marble and an adult marble in our den along with a spotted kitten. The marbles behavior is very cliquish and they get annoyed when the spotted boy butts into their games and space.
I've observed this behavior in kittens as young as 3 weeks.