Hey everyone, I've decided to keep an update thread on my two boys. I know in the future it will be nice to look back and in case I have any questions I figure I can get them out of the way here.
A little back-story, feel free to skip over for the pics. I've had Simba for almost 2 and a half years now. For the first year and a half he didn't have any interaction with any animals other than my reptiles. Then my friend moved in with his 5-6 year old cat who I've known since he got him and I even named him. Luckily for us, even though I was super skeptic, they became best friends. Played together all the time, ate together, and even slept together. Anyway, things between my friend and I didn't work out roommate wise and he ended up moving out, and even though he knew it was better for his cat to stay here, he took him anyway just because he wanted him. This left me in a tough spot, I was super bummed and so was Simba, and Simba even more-so then me in the end. Don't get me wrong, I still miss that dude terribly, but that was the only friend Simba ever knew and it left him whining, staring out the window all day waiting for him. After a bit, I had to really consider getting a new friend for him. After the recommendation from a few people on here and some other people I talked to I decided to go for it. I was originally going to wait until I flew my mom in for mothers day that way it would make the transition a little easier, but once I saw this little guy I couldn't say no, and I'm glad I didn't. He's been here for 5 days now and things are going great. He's set up in a guest room with plenty of room and toys. The first 2 days I didn't let him out and would just go in as often as I could and would spend between 20mins-1.5hours in there just letting him run around. On the 3rd day I let him and Simba meet and let him out and things have been going from there since. I take him down to my office and block out the door so Simba can get in and out but little Kovu can't. He just runs around and up and down my leg and does his thing.
My first question for now is, right now I'm having Kovu sleep by himself in his guest bedroom and I feel super bad, but I'm not sure what else to do. Simba sleeps on my bed a foot away from my head and every morning, if its cold he likes to go under the blankets and cuddle until he decides he wants to lay on my neck/head or more recently on top of the blanket in between my legs. I'm not sure what to do with Kovu. With my friends cat, it was sort of perfect because he liked to sleep more towards my feet and didn't want to be touched, so Simba could do his whole morning routine and there would be no issue. Kovu on the other hand, seems to be a super cuddle bug so far and I can't see being able to just put him on the blanket by my feet. He's going to want to also find a spot.
I can only keep him in the guest room for so long. Another issue is his size. When Simba was his size, he would sleep under the blanket if I remember correctly, but over a foot away from me so I wouldn't disturb him. This is by far the most confusing part of this whole thing. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Sorry for the mega long post lol
anyway, enough talking, onto the pics.
Kovu
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simba
my favorite pic of Simba sleeping
their first meeting
and both of them sleeping on my while im trying to use the computer
A little back-story, feel free to skip over for the pics. I've had Simba for almost 2 and a half years now. For the first year and a half he didn't have any interaction with any animals other than my reptiles. Then my friend moved in with his 5-6 year old cat who I've known since he got him and I even named him. Luckily for us, even though I was super skeptic, they became best friends. Played together all the time, ate together, and even slept together. Anyway, things between my friend and I didn't work out roommate wise and he ended up moving out, and even though he knew it was better for his cat to stay here, he took him anyway just because he wanted him. This left me in a tough spot, I was super bummed and so was Simba, and Simba even more-so then me in the end. Don't get me wrong, I still miss that dude terribly, but that was the only friend Simba ever knew and it left him whining, staring out the window all day waiting for him. After a bit, I had to really consider getting a new friend for him. After the recommendation from a few people on here and some other people I talked to I decided to go for it. I was originally going to wait until I flew my mom in for mothers day that way it would make the transition a little easier, but once I saw this little guy I couldn't say no, and I'm glad I didn't. He's been here for 5 days now and things are going great. He's set up in a guest room with plenty of room and toys. The first 2 days I didn't let him out and would just go in as often as I could and would spend between 20mins-1.5hours in there just letting him run around. On the 3rd day I let him and Simba meet and let him out and things have been going from there since. I take him down to my office and block out the door so Simba can get in and out but little Kovu can't. He just runs around and up and down my leg and does his thing.
My first question for now is, right now I'm having Kovu sleep by himself in his guest bedroom and I feel super bad, but I'm not sure what else to do. Simba sleeps on my bed a foot away from my head and every morning, if its cold he likes to go under the blankets and cuddle until he decides he wants to lay on my neck/head or more recently on top of the blanket in between my legs. I'm not sure what to do with Kovu. With my friends cat, it was sort of perfect because he liked to sleep more towards my feet and didn't want to be touched, so Simba could do his whole morning routine and there would be no issue. Kovu on the other hand, seems to be a super cuddle bug so far and I can't see being able to just put him on the blanket by my feet. He's going to want to also find a spot.
I can only keep him in the guest room for so long. Another issue is his size. When Simba was his size, he would sleep under the blanket if I remember correctly, but over a foot away from me so I wouldn't disturb him. This is by far the most confusing part of this whole thing. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Sorry for the mega long post lol
anyway, enough talking, onto the pics.
Kovu
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View media item 270298
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simba
my favorite pic of Simba sleeping
their first meeting
and both of them sleeping on my while im trying to use the computer
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