Anyone have more than one female cat?

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So I have found myself in a position where I have unexpectedly got kittens. I don’t want to say too much as it could be outing but they were dumped at less than 1 week old. I thought I’d keep a boy/2 boys/ maybe a boy and a girl but I have fallen in love with 2 girls. Homes are already sorted for the others and they’re only a few weeks old at the minute. I am being warned against keeping two females as they will fight. In my opinion it is the temperament of the cats that decide whether they get along or not rather than their sex.

I was wondering if anyone had success stories of keeping two female cats? We are fully prepared for the cost of cats, insurance, vets bills, food and have a family member that would take one cat if things went wrong. We also have a large house so space for separate litter trays (have currently bought 4) and feeding areas for each.

thanks!

I have two girls, not sisters though.
They love each other. Had from kittens.
both stay inside. Started on feliway, two litter boxes, slept sep for a while.
now they use one litter box and sleep together.

Here are my 3 posing... Gomez morticia and Wednesday aka the idiot sisters 👍

Mine hate the wheel

We thought about outdoor space using the yard but will have to think about how it would work as it’s 4m by 3m so just enough space for a couple of chairs

They’re both two now, i’ve let the one outside in the garden as i do have a secure garden, but no interest.
the one had no desire to even step foot in the garden.

3 female cats here not related, all get on well, our senior lady is obviously the highest ranked amongst them watching them but no aggression, the other two, one is like a mother to the other washes her and they sleep curled up together they all get on lovely younger two play chase, pounching, zoomies and that together but it's all playful can't recall any negative behaviour between any of them.
Growing up there was a lady down the street who had two sister cats from the same litter they got along lovely two.

If your yard is small it might not be too expensive to cat proof it.

Oh senior goes outside other two are indoor cats and have no desire to go out.

My two females are really great friends and they are not littermates. I got the kitten when the older cat was 13.

I had four females from same litter. All got on brilliantly. Or perhaps they ignored each other. But there were no issues.

I fostered a bonded pair of girls who met as tiny kittens. They were with me for about 6 months and adorable together. There was quite a lot of playfighting but nothing beyond that - they groomed each other & the confident one always went to tell the more nervous one when I’d finished hoovering!

We have 2 unrelated girls- both rescue cats.

They tolerate each other. They have zoned the house between them as to whose territory is whose. One has DH's study, our bedroom, the Dcs playroom and the sitting room. The other has DS1's bedroom, my study and the hall landing. They hiss at each other but it's largely performative.

The only thing we have to watch is that DCat1 as soon as she hears DCat2 scratch in the litter tray she waits until DCat2 is in the middle of her business to spring out and hiss at her. So we sometimes need to guard the litter trays (we have 3).

So cute!!

Ours seemed to love each other when they were younger, they would groom each other, sleep curled round each other, this faded after a few years and they totally ignored each other for a long time apart from the odd hiss and bop on the nose. They now tolerate sharing the same bed or sofa but always a couple of feet apart.

We are three doors from a main road (30mph but lots of speeding). However access isn't that easy as we all have 6' fences and the last house has a dense leylandii hedge higher than his fence in the back garden. We have made a point from day 1 of never letting them out the front door, they do escape occasionally but they do know and I have never once seen either go further than our drive, we get them back with Dreamies sometimes. We can't cat proof the back garden. One reason we got girls is that the rescue told us boys tend to wander farther afield and I really don't think our girls go far.

We got 2 unrelated female cats about 3 months ago. They were next door neighbours at the rescue, and were allowed to wander into each other's enclosures - so, friendly, but not in any way bonded. The older one (who's probably about 3) is lazy and placid and only sometimes dabs at the younger one (20 months) if she gets too playful. Older one is also a lot more interested in food and will lean over the younger one with a distinct "are you sure you're going to finish that?" vibe until she takes the hint. In the evening they sometimes join each other in a mad dash up and down the stairs, but mostly just co-exist reasonably amicably.

We have a mother and daughter (plus her three brothers 🙈) and they get on OK. Bit of bickering but only as much as they all do. They often sleep together. It's always worst when one wants to play and the others don't so we tend to make an effort to step in and play at that point.

All five are indoor cats although we do have a catio

Until recently I've always had sister pairs. Honestly I think boy girl is easier but 2 sisters is fine although tends to need monitoring for bullying and occasional bouts of Feliway.

I did have 2 sisters that were so cute and so bonded and cuddled each other all the time and I thought I had hit the jackpot. Until at age 3 they fell out and that was it.

So it seems like it’s not a completely ridiculous plan but good to have a back up option for one girl just incase

Not now but I did have four, a mother and her three daughters. Mother was a stray we took in, not much more than a kitten herself, and she gave birth on our sofa. She was about one year old then, quite small but she never grew very big. We decided to keep them all, had mum spayed fairly quickly after the birth and the three girls a few months later. They were tremendous fun, very different from each other; one died aged four from glomerulonephritis but the other three lived to nineteen to twenty years. Happy memories.

We have two sisters who used to be very close but mostly ignore each other now. We have another 6 females and 3 males. None of them fight.

Yep,same with my two sisters.

I have had two lots of female cats. To
So were siblings. The next too were not. They all rubbed along happily. (Only ever had two at once.

We have two girls who are from different litters but were born on the same day. They adore each other. We had mother and son before that, and the mum hated him. I think in the wild, female cats live in colonies while males live alone and pop in at breeding time so having two females is more likely to work.

We had 2 girls, littermates.
They loved each other as kittens, slept, ate and went out together.
Gradually they became a bit distant, but no fighting.They would occasionally bop each other on the head or nose as the other went past, but no fighting.
The first one died at 20 years old and the one left came into her own and was so confident and carefree.
She died a year later at 21.
It can work !

our 2 girls are littermates and are 1.5 now and love each other. Although we thought one was a boy when we were asked to take them. Poor lamb was misgendered for her first 9 weeks