Thread: What's best one or two ?

Well we were only going to have the mc kitten and dh ended up getting the tonk. they are the best of friends and are constantly running around the house playing together.
It's great as dh and I both work so they keep each other company during the day.

I keep thinking of getting another MC. Darcy comes from an extremely pet filled home and I keep thinking she might like an MC friend.

I think if you are out during the day then it is nice for them to have a friend to play with. I'm lucky as I work from home and also Simba has my two dogs to play with which he does a lot plus he gets load of attention from us all so for me one is enough for now. I think he enjoys getting all the attention actually and would probably be jealous of another kitty

I will follow this post with interest as we have decided to get two, mainly because I don't want a kitten terrorising my elderly19 yo lady. Not decided on whether to get two boys or one boy and one girl yet.....

I like the mixture of boys & girls,boys seem to have more of a laid back "village idiot" approach to life as they mature but the girls are always busy doing something,even our old girl seems to be more on the go still than the boys,the girls seem to work out things quick & the boys look on with that "Oh yeah,given time we would eventually have worked it out as well " .
Having said that our two boys from the same litter not only look completly different their characters are miles apart as well so have turned out equally as interesting.
All good fun....

So we got a second boy for our male MC when he was a bit over a year old. Up until that point he had been playing quite well with one of our girls, but as he got bigger and bigger she began to not want to play with him anymore--and made it very obvious by being mean. We found having the two boys to be really good for both of them. They played constantly until fairly recently (the younger is now 9mos). I think they are having some trouble adjusting to the larger size of the "kitten." When he was little, the older male would basically let him do anything, but sometimes when they start to play now it seems to get very rough and then one breaks it off. We are hoping they work this out so play continues, but we will see.... They still are great friends and obviously very happy to have each other around.

Our two girls have always been much less playful together than the boys. The older of them is not that much of a player. The younger girl (now 4 years) did play with each of the males quite a bit until they got close to her in size (even the 9mos old male now outweighs her).

So overall we have been pleased with having them all. They appear to like having the others around--at least most of the time--and they do help amuse each other some. Each of them has a very distinct personality. We like having both boys and girls as they do differ. On the other hand, if you get a male that is going to be much larger than the female, don't expect them to engage in very physical play for long. The females in general do not seem to like that type of play as well, and they particularly do not seem to like it with a larger cat!

Downsides? We did not find two a great deal more work than one, but four can sometimes make it feel like you are constantly dealing with cat needs (e.g., feeding, cleaning litter, picking up hairballs, grooming, etc.). And of course there is the cost, which is certainly not insubstantial (the food bills alone are rather horrifying some days, with two growing males).

Having had differing numbers over the years I like to have 3. That way when one wants to play there is usually one of the others that wants to. If one doesnt want to play then they can keep away from the games As I work during the day they keep themselves amused.

Zack is still a kitten so the dynamics may change when he is big.

I have 2 boys and a girl - 1 boy is domestic