Should I adopt another cat?

[LenaMelena]

Hi all! Please, could you give us some advice for this? Hope you can understand my post, my English is so bad 😂 . A little of context:

We had two cats for twelve years, one of them died a year ago (it was really sad losing her 😢). Our two female cats didn´t go along too well, they fought a lot, but strangely when one of them died the other were incredible depressed and anxious for maybe half a year. Now she had recovered completely.

We´re starting to think about adopting another cat. We have a lot of space in our house and we are increasingly seen how many kittens are being born and need a home (we live in Spain and sadly there are tons of stray cats)

It´s a big decission. My husband and I are discussing the pros and cons a lot. And we can´t decide, so maybe you can help us. Our main issues are:

• Our cat is fourteen years old. Maybe a new cat will cause her stress and we don´t want that. I´m really scared about them hating each other and to make her life misserable. But at the same time I am sad to see her so alone.

• Travelling with cats. We both work from home full time and have this dream: staying for a month or two in another country far away to experience a bit of life there. We don`t do it now because it would be stressful for our cat and for sure it´s not that easy to take your cat with you to say, for example Japan. So we were planning to do this when our cat is not longer with us (hope is in a long future). So my fear is that a new cat would mean to forget this dream.

So that´s all. Please, share with us any advice or tips you have.

Thank you so much.

Hi! I think in your situation, I wouldn’t adopt another cat yet. Both of the reasons you mentioned are good reasons. Right now, your priority is your current cat, and I wouldn’t disrupt his life. My 5 year old cat is very calm and chilled and loved spending his days relaxing. We adopted a 1 year old cat and he hates her, she is too much for him. I feel like at 14 years old he may prefer to live out his twilight years in peace. (Of course I could be wrong, but I don’t think it’s worth the risk, as it may just cause unnecessary stress for everyone involved).

if you adopt another young cat you will be tied down again, so won’t be able to go and live in another country for a couple of months until you no longer have that cat which could be years and years! I would say wait until you have done that, and then when you get back you could start again and maybe get a couple of cats together ☺️

@Rabarry Thank you so much for your reply! I think you are completely right. If I think rationally, I can see how much my cat is enjoying the only child life with all our attention being on her.

And on top of that, she hates other cats with a passion (I suppose this is normal) if she see any cat being around in our street she gets really scared. Strangely, she likes dogs, and has played a lot with several of the dogs our family has. But Im not getting her a dog!! 😂