Internal debate...
Jul. 1st, 2008 10:29 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
silverthorneOkay, so I have Foot, whom I love to death.
Foot is also on her own on average, 9 hours a day Monday through Friday. She is also starting to get a tiny bit pudgy, and sleeps most of the day, even when I'm home, and a good portion of the evening.
I'm thinking maybe of getting a second cat.
Actually, I'm thinking of a specific cat, who was up for adoption at the local Petco a week after I got Foot, and who is still up for adoption two months later. She'll be out again this coming weekend at the Petco in Lewisville where I used to live--a 20 minute drive.
I am seriously considering getting her. She is an adult, spayed, has her shots and stuff up to date.
Here's my concerns.
1) I'd need to double check and make sure I could get a second cat.
2) I think I need another $400 for a secondary deposit (a little difficult at the moment unless I get a decent chunk of B-day money).
3) The adoption fee is another $119, but it covers everything I would have had to do on my own in regards to a vet visit for a new pet anyway.
4) At least one new cat bed.
5) I'm not sure how Foot would take it, although she's seemed curious about cats outside the window, and not threatened. The cat I'm thinking of getting is fostered in a home with other dogs and cats.
6) I'm not sure my apartment is big enough for two cats.
7) A little bigger cat budget will be needed. Once the initial fees are handled though, that's not such a big deal (and it's only a big deal right now because I'm still playing 'catch up' from the goof on the bank account. By the time the big stuff rolls around again next year, I should be good to go).
Anyone have any opinions?
ETA: Here's the girl in question. Her name is Ula.
Foot is also on her own on average, 9 hours a day Monday through Friday. She is also starting to get a tiny bit pudgy, and sleeps most of the day, even when I'm home, and a good portion of the evening.
I'm thinking maybe of getting a second cat.
Actually, I'm thinking of a specific cat, who was up for adoption at the local Petco a week after I got Foot, and who is still up for adoption two months later. She'll be out again this coming weekend at the Petco in Lewisville where I used to live--a 20 minute drive.
I am seriously considering getting her. She is an adult, spayed, has her shots and stuff up to date.
Here's my concerns.
1) I'd need to double check and make sure I could get a second cat.
2) I think I need another $400 for a secondary deposit (a little difficult at the moment unless I get a decent chunk of B-day money).
3) The adoption fee is another $119, but it covers everything I would have had to do on my own in regards to a vet visit for a new pet anyway.
4) At least one new cat bed.
5) I'm not sure how Foot would take it, although she's seemed curious about cats outside the window, and not threatened. The cat I'm thinking of getting is fostered in a home with other dogs and cats.
6) I'm not sure my apartment is big enough for two cats.
7) A little bigger cat budget will be needed. Once the initial fees are handled though, that's not such a big deal (and it's only a big deal right now because I'm still playing 'catch up' from the goof on the bank account. By the time the big stuff rolls around again next year, I should be good to go).
Anyone have any opinions?
ETA: Here's the girl in question. Her name is Ula.
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Date: 2008-07-01 08:43 pm (UTC)I honestly can't tell you though. With cats, there are no sound generalizations, because they make a habit of jossing all expectations as soon as they become aware of them. So let the Foot tell you what will fly with her.
Try introducing the other cat, and see what happens, but be ready to set up an extra litterbox and food station in the bedroom so you can separate them if they get too hostile toward one another. In fact, a friend of mine who owns like six cats, and still fosters others, makes a habit of separating all new cats that come into the house for at least a couple of days, so they get the chance to growl and hiss at each other through the door first, and keep the physical damage to a minimum.
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Date: 2008-07-01 08:49 pm (UTC)I was thinking of getting a larger box anyway--the one I bought when I snagged Foot was a 'OMG I HAVE A CAT IN THE HOUSE!!!' purchase, and Foot's gotten a litte bigger since then. She can't turn around in the first one so easy. So mayhaps, especially with kitty#2 joining the household, I will get a larger box. And then keep the first one in the 'other room' at least until everyone is settled and okay with each other.