Remaining cats don't seem to care?

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I had my beautiful little mog PTS last Monday, I'm heartbroken, gave pretty much cried since.

We have another 2 cats, one of which is her litter mate and neither of them seem to have even noticed she is gone? Is that normal? I'm worried they might be bottling it up perhaps but I know that's probably me putting human emotions onto them.

Did you remaining cats miss one that passed away? The house feels so odd without her.

Only ever had one cat who clearly missed his deceased brother (they really were bonded), he started wailing at night for him and was never quite the same afterwards despite outliving him by three years.

I have found that generally the behaviours of the other cats in the house changes when one dies though. As an example a previously aloof cat that became a lapcat immediately after one died.

I think they do take a little time to adjust to the new dynamic / settle into a new pecking order.

And very sorry about your cat OP

Our existing dbro was anxious and stressed. We gave it 6 months and got a dkitten. They bonded within 3 weeks and dcat is back to his happy self..
Dkitten is a bloody whirlwind... Not quite sure how dcat is so happy!

Aww you poor thing. Sorry about the loss of your cat. The others might not have realised yet that she’s not coming back. They might think she’s gone wandering etc. I guess in a sad way it’s good that they don’t seem to be missing her. Watching an animal Pine for its friend is hard.

As a kid when one of my cats died, the other one didn’t wash for weeks as they used to wash each other .

Try and see it as a good thing that they still have each other. Might be different if it was just one cat left alone.

Sorry for your sad loss. It's heartbreaking when they go.

In my own experience, they don't miss the cat that's gone, but you do hear of cats that pine for a departed friend.

I wouldn't worry about them. Look after yourself

I’m sorry, it’s so painful to lose them. I don’t think some cats care though, and sometimes their actually happier.

I can’t imagine a cat bottling anything up though, they like you to know how they feel on any subject.

I took my cats sister along when she was PTS. So she could comfy her, which she did. She absolutely blossomed once Maia was gone. As for the first time, she was the boss. It's lovely to see but very bittersweet.

We used to expect a couple of days where the remaining cats were skittish and then it was back to normal.

I'm so sorry about your darling cat OP.
In my experience, most cata don't really miss the departwd one.
In fact when one of my litter mate sisters was put to sleep the other one really came out of her shell and became so confident and much happier, although they had never really showed any stress with each other.

None of mine have ever noticed - first of pair died, his brother didn’t change behaviour at all. Got a new kitten, the older one died when she was 4. She didn’t bat an eyelid.

Magic gets on so much better with Cheddar than she ever did with Maia. She's very protective of her, which is adorable. Cheddar has never ever tried to be the boss, or even set foot in any of Magics beds. So they don't compete.