To kitten or not to kitten... that is the question

[LastingLight]

As some of you will remember, we lost our two boy cats recently. We have two girls left, 10 and 11 years old. Our young rescue boy really terrorised grey girl, he was about a year old when we got him and was confident and cocky. He chased her, wanting to play but she took it seriously. She started to spend a lot of time outside and lost condition.

Dd has been campaigning for a kitten ever since we lost the boys. I'm not averse to the idea. Dh says we can't do that to grey girl again. Will it be as difficult for her to adapt to a kitten as it was to adapt to year old boy cat? Would it be better to get two kittens so they can keep each other busy, or would they gang up on her?

I find that kittens are easier to intergrate with old cats. A female kitten would present less
Of a threat than a male.

I have an older (14 yr old) cat and following the loss of my other cat, we brought in two kittens two weeks ago.

I have to say that Portia is NOT impressed.. has refused to come in at all except for food and is very scared of them. Today she has come in for the first time (we have been feeding her in the conservatory but then she would dash back out) and while not happy she seemed less terrified...

It's definitely nicer for the kittens to be a pair but I'm not sure that Portia agrees!

Personally, I wouldn't.

I think your dh is right.