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Giving away kittens :(
Hi all, 28/F... this might be the silliest question I've ever asked, but I just need some reassurance, I guess.
So, it's a long story, but I rescued a cat a few months ago, and she gave birth to the most adorable kittens of my life. I tried not to get too attached, but it was really inevitable. Mama cat is super attached to me, so her kittens followed suit. I basically only know how to live and treat others out of love - that is the core of my existence. As I type, one of the kittens has climbed onto my lap, licked my nose, and purred herself to sleep...
It took absolutely no effort to enlist friends to adopt these sweet babies. One of them is coming to get her little guy this weekend, in fact.
Logically, I KNOW they're going to good humans who will love and spoil the crap out of them, but I'm really having a hard time preparing to let go. I was literally sitting next to mom petting her forehead as she gave birth to these guys two months ago. I knew I'd have trouble, but I don't think I thought it would be this upsetting. One of them is staying until December because of timing and location issues, but everyone else is leaving this month (except mama cat. She's staying.)
Honestly, the only reason (aside from my friends deserving sweet fluffballs to nuzzle) I'm giving them away is that six cats is kinda too many. If I could have my way as I'm thinking right now, I'd keep the one in my lap. She even (almost) gets along with my 8-year-old female, who does not get along with mama cat... at all.
There's a super-slim chance that the person adopting the baby I want to keep could be talked into adopting mom instead, but that really doesn't seem fair. But is it fair to stick my older cat with an adult female she doesn't get along with?
I don't know what to do. Please help me. Any and all advice is welcome....
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Babies of almost any animal kind are more easily accepted by adult animals of the same kind. Or as you may have seen in lots of cute Facebook video's, accepted and adopted by animals of a totally different kind. I guess the adult animals must not see the young ones as a threat.
So your idea of keeping the kitten whom the 8 yr old cat seems to tolerate is a good idea but then you'd need to get a home for the mom cat.
Keep in mind that kittens are only kitten-like for about a year and after that they're an adult cat. So along that vein, if the 2 older ones get along, then it may be best not to keep the kitten.
Then lastly, after watching a daughter whom ALL cats seemed to like, there were certain cats we've had that developed a closer bond with my daughter than the other cats who simply liked her.
It is hard and expensive to have too many pets, so if you've thought about expenses and decided to stick with two, then of all the three, kitten included, which one do you have the closest bond with, not which do you like best but which cat/kitten seems to truly consider you its best friend and make a point of keeping that one and then decide which of the other two stays and goes.
I know its not easy but hopefully it will work out for you.
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