Hi guys,
I was wondering if you guys might be able to lend me your opinions on something.
We have two 4yo kitties, litter siblings, male (Hobbes) and female (Sunny). Now that they've reached maturity, Sunny's desiring to be left alone more and more frequently, but Hobbes is still VERY MUCH a kitten and is starting to frustrate her with his (in her opinion) entirely too frequent desire to play and wrestle. I can see Sunny wanting more and more time alone, and hear her hiss at him more and more often at the sheer annoyance at his goofiness.
We recently (as of a few weeks ago) moved into a much bigger place, now allowing me to look into the option of adding a second, younger male (I was thinking about a year old, so he's got size, but still got kitten playfulness, so he'd be a good playmate for Hobbes), but I'm not sure how to know for sure that the three of them will get along.
The trouble I run into, in contemplating kitty dates (to see if they're compatible), is the fact that these particular two kitties of ours stress immensely with any sort of travel...and usually wind up with a health issue we have to treat by the end of any trips. So they just wouldn't be themselves with any sort of take-kitties-to-meet-potential-playmate scenarios.
Do you guys have any suggestions? Our two are very easy-going, have been around other kitties and had no issues getting along with varying personalities of kitties, and I think this would be a really great move to help both our sweethearts.
Thanks for your help!!
Rosie*
I was wondering if you guys might be able to lend me your opinions on something.
We have two 4yo kitties, litter siblings, male (Hobbes) and female (Sunny). Now that they've reached maturity, Sunny's desiring to be left alone more and more frequently, but Hobbes is still VERY MUCH a kitten and is starting to frustrate her with his (in her opinion) entirely too frequent desire to play and wrestle. I can see Sunny wanting more and more time alone, and hear her hiss at him more and more often at the sheer annoyance at his goofiness.
We recently (as of a few weeks ago) moved into a much bigger place, now allowing me to look into the option of adding a second, younger male (I was thinking about a year old, so he's got size, but still got kitten playfulness, so he'd be a good playmate for Hobbes), but I'm not sure how to know for sure that the three of them will get along.
The trouble I run into, in contemplating kitty dates (to see if they're compatible), is the fact that these particular two kitties of ours stress immensely with any sort of travel...and usually wind up with a health issue we have to treat by the end of any trips. So they just wouldn't be themselves with any sort of take-kitties-to-meet-potential-playmate scenarios.
Do you guys have any suggestions? Our two are very easy-going, have been around other kitties and had no issues getting along with varying personalities of kitties, and I think this would be a really great move to help both our sweethearts.
Thanks for your help!!
Rosie*