‘I’m wondering if I should have taken the brother home also.’: First-time kitten adopter’s gut feeling about leaving a sibling behind is proven right when she decides to adopt both siblings, leading to a full and happy fur family

We want to preface this story with some reality. Cat shelters often find that they are given cats who are bonded. This means two cats who have become reliant on each other, more so morally and emotionally than anything else. But that bond is an unbreakable one and if split, it can cause serious issues for both cattos.

And that is something that the adopter who wrote this story learned very quickly after adopting the sister of a bonded pair of kittens and turning to Reddit to ask if she should have also adopted the brother. And Reddit, being the grown up and responsible place that it is, immediately told her to go and get the brother. So what we are left with is a medium to large fur family who will live out the rest of their days in peace and harmony, so long as the food keeps flowing. The moral of the story being if you see them as a pair take them as is, they are not grocery store bananas that you can split (not that you should do that either…).
 

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