Comments on: The Single Kitten Syndrome Explanied

By: Melina Grin

Melina Grin — Fri, 29 Nov 2024 04:17:42 +0000

In reply to Vicky.

Hi Vicky

Thank you for reading our article and for saving your beautiful kitten.

There’s nothing wrong or harmful with her bonding just with dogs.

Many cats develop amazing friendships with other species, like dogs. My previous cat was bonded to my border collie; they used to play, hide, and nap together in the wardrobe on stormy days.

Sending you love & healing
Melina

By: Vicky

Vicky — Thu, 28 Nov 2024 03:01:31 +0000

I found a 3 1/2 week old kitten in the middle of the highway. I brought her home, hoping to get her into a cat rescue, but nobody was able to take her. So I started taking care of her and feeding her with a syringe cause she wouldn’t take a bottle every two hours. She’s now 14 weeks and she is a beautiful little kitten. Since I have always been a dog person in fact, I have two small dogs I started reading and watching all I could about raising cats during the last three months that’s a lot of information! And I was worried about a single cat syndrome, but my kitten interacts very well with my two dogs. In fact, she is bonding with my little 13 pound dog.. she has all the appropriate toys and towers and scratchers and etc. but I’ve raised her as I raised my dogs. My family says I turned her into a dog! She sits on the couch with us at night or laying with my dogs, she runs and plays on her own and it’s very entertained, and I play with her, but other than that, she hangs with me and the dogs and she is following some verbal commands. She is not aggressive. She had a learning curve initially on her, biting too hard but by just telling her and go easy she very rarely bites hard anymore! So I haven’t seen any literature where people have talked about the single cat with dogs and that environment! So I have nothing to go by About cats and dogs. She just became one of the pack! So I have to wonder are there any issues or negative with her bonding just with dogs?

By: Melina Grin

Melina Grin — Thu, 05 Sep 2024 22:46:49 +0000

In reply to Alison Verkade. AMEN

By: Alison Verkade

Alison Verkade — Thu, 05 Sep 2024 18:58:11 +0000

Thank you for this! I wish more trained, educated professionals in the field like yourself would speak out on this topic. Rescues and independent shelters seem to have taken this so called “syndrome” viral and it is pervasive. The potential for this to lead to an exponentially increasing number of teenage to adult cats in shelters with this new “requirement” to adopt two kittens and/or young cats together backfires because the two cats do not get along as they grow up together, or the cost of two cats gets too much for owners, seriously worries me.