Should I get a new cat?

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So I have 2 beautiful 3 year old Siamese brothers. They are joined at the hip. One of them has amyloidosis and is in stage 3 kidney failure, the other is currently well although it is familial so he may get ill in the future. I am so worried about how Otto will cope when we lose Loki. He was really distressed all day last Tuesday when Loki was at the vets, spent the whole day trying to find him and I couldn't distract him. So I wondered if it would be a good idea to bring in another young cat now so that he has a friend? Has anyone done this successfully? I know that introducing a new cat may be difficult, and my main worry will be that if Loki goes downhill quickly that the new cat will be a bother to him when he's feeling poorly. I just don't know what is the best thing to do for them. Does anyone have any advice?

It must be really hard for you and your cats right now but no I would not get another cat now
It may upset Loki and he has enough on his plate now without some young upstart chasing all over the place

Also when Loki does die Otto will still pine for him and look for him for days .

The best thing you can do is either take Otto to the vets when you have to have loki PTS and let him see the body or
bring Loki back home and let Otto see the body ,

Either way it will be hard for you and your cat but at least Otto will know that Loki is not returning .
It would be horrible for Otto to be sitting in the window or roaming the streets waiting for his pal to come back .

for you all

I was just going to suggest taking his sibling along to the vet as well. I did that with my cats and they were a comfort to each other while waiting for the vet and my surviving cat knew immediately. She absolutely blossomed since her sisters death and gets on really well with my new cat.

I've had manyany cats over the years and I think it's best not to get another cat now. Let the Otton grieve and take his time. Let him see lokis body when the time comes so he knows what happens. My cats would attend the others funerals in the garden and they knew.
Let him him grieve properly before getting another cat. It's a process that must be worked through and given time.
I did that once and it was a total disaster.

Imagine doing that with children? Sorry your brother does. Here's your new brother. It doesn't work with cats either. I find leaving the body with the other cat until he understands is the best thing you can do.

If you can, have the vet do a house call to PTS.

So sorry about your cat

Thanks so much for all of your comments and advice. I'm in bits over Loki and not really thinking straight. This is the first time I've had 2 cats that love each other so much. We will definitely bring Loki home when it happens, if we can't get a home visit which I will definitely try for. I can't imagine taking Otto along if it does have to be done at the vets, they're indoor cats (it was something the rescue stipulated as a condition of rehoming as they'd never been outside, and in the 2 years they've lived here they haven't ever shown interest in getting out.) so they find going to the vets extremely stressful. I guess the ideal scenario is that when it's time he passes away peacefully in his sleep 😿

Thinking sensibly it really is too risky to try and introduce a new cat, thanks for knocking some sense in to me.