Woman Fosters a Cat Short-Term—Her Pet Instantly Decides He's Not Leaving
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A pet owner recently agreed to foster another feline for what she assumed would be a temporary arrangement, but her cat, Yonkers, had other ideas.
In a heartwarming TikTok video shared in May, under the username @yonkieboy, the two kitties can be seen cuddling and grooming each other as if they had always been friends, despite it being their first encounter.
"POV [point of view]: you decided to foster a cat short term, but this is him and my cat on the first day they meet," the owner writes in the clip. The caption reads: "Idk [I don't know] if it's going to be a short term visit …"
Although cats have a reputation for being solitary animals, some of them may thrive with companionship, though it is important, before getting a new feline, to determine whether your kitty actually needs one.
But how do you know if your cat needs a companion? Some changes in behavior can give you a hint. Loneliness, excessive clinginess, irregular eating habits, or destructive behaviors can all be cries for help.
However, these behaviors don't automatically mean that your cat is asking for a second feline. Veterinarians stress the importance of ruling out medical condition before treating their behavioral changes as just loneliness.
If indeed your cat is healthy, and they just need a companion to be happy, it is very important to introduce them gradually, starting with separate spaces and supervised interactions until they are comfortable with each other, says Pet MD.
Stock image: A black cat and a tabby share a small bed.
Stock image: A black cat and a tabby share a small bed.
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The video quickly went viral on social media and has so far received over 510,000 views and almost 100,000 likes on the platform.
One user, D-Nice-79, commented: "That's how we ended up with a cat named Kitten. We called him Kitten to discouraging ourselves from keeping him but our other cat decided."
Chubbyandclumsyme posted: "One of my foster cats fell in love with my cat IMMEDIATELY, she cuddled him right away so I knew it's going to be a foster failure."
Sarah Disassociating added: "I think your cat just adopted a cat, so technically you still only have one cat, who happens to also have a cat."
Newsweek reached out to @yonkieboy for comment via TikTok comments. We could not verify the details of the case.
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