I feel sorry for these kittens

[HoraceWimple]

It’s absolutely, completely none of my business and I shouldn’t be so invested, but a ‘celeb’ I follow on Instagram is worrying me. Her flat mate bought a kitten from a breeder, so the celeb has now bought a sibling from the same litter.
Sounds lovely but I can’t help but think about how upsetting it will be for the poor cats when they are eventually split up why don’t people think about the long term?

Someone tell me to get a grip please!

Why would they eventually be split up?

Well you don’t tend to live with a housemate for 16+ years do you?

Oh, I see. Sorry I’d read it as her mate rather than her flat mate. Maybe whoever moves out first will leave the cat behind? Hopeful!

Depends. My two sister cats hate each other. I think they would love DH and I to split up and one leave home with whoever leaves the marital home!

Yes I suppose the best you could hope for is that they don’t bond with each other.
This is so typical of me, worrying about something that hasn’t happened yet!

I think there are perhaps kittens more deserving of your concern such as the stray ones or the ones in rescue centres.

It’s possible to feel sympathy of both situations..

It is but feeling sympathy for a situation which has not and may not happen is perhaps a bit excessive.

I had a friend who did this and I remember thinking the same at the time. But.... sometimes in life we humans have to say goodbye to people we love and it doesn't kill us. The cat may grieve for a few weeks but it's equally possible that one of the owners will decide to leave their cat behind when they move out... or indeed that one of the kittens may get run over by a car / notmake it go adulthood, and so they'd be separated anyway.
Sadly, this is what happens when people see animals as accessories and not family members / thinking entities.

I have two cats - Stan and Bunty, and Bunty is weird. I rescued her when she was a kitten of about six weeks and she immediately took to Stan. They groom each other, butt heads and sometimes play fight, only stopping to wash each other's ears.

But if you watched Bunty with me, even though I've never shown her anything but kindness, you'd think I have a history of shouting or hitting her. She shrinks away from me and never lets me pet her. On the rare occasions I pick her up and try to scratch behind her ears, I can practically see her gritting her teeth. If I hold her for more than four seconds she starts growling.

But - at night, she curls up next to me in bed! I've put a blanket next to my pillow and every single night I doze off to the sound of her purring. When I reach out and gently stroke her, she purrs and drools!

I'm beginning to think Bunty has a twin she hides away during the day!

Not expecting a 'solution' - I just find it so odd that a cat who is so conspicuously unfriendly during the day is literally like a different cat at night!

So sorry - I meant to post the above in a new message! Durrrr! Didn't mean to barge in . . .

I wouldn't worry too much. Cats by their very nature usually prefer to life alone once they are adults

I got a kitten just After my now ex partner got one when he dumped me I told him he was not taking the cats I kept them binned him