How sociable are our cats?

Mischa and Myrtle are mother and daughter so they are best friends but most cats find it difficult to maintain a relationship with a cat they don’t know and will avoid contact if possible.  Integrating a new cat into the group is not easy.  Cats find their own friends and it’s usually through family connections or from when they were smal that they form affection.

Kittens growing up together will make friends but even then the bond isn’t so strong as that of brothers and sisters.  Very often when a cat just disappears it’s because it can’t cope with another cat being in its territory any longer.   The one who moves away will try to find a new home where there aren’t any cats – this is usually what happens when a cat turns up ‘out of the blue’.

Cats, unlike dogs, mostly seem incapable of making sociable, friendly relationships with other cats.  If not openly  aggessive, they are mostly aloof.   All the sanctuary cats live in separate groups or on their own.  At best, they ignore one another – occasionally it’s open warfare!

Pebbles likes to do her own thing and ignores everyone else.

Timmy is nervous of all the other cats, he keeps well away of them..

Bing and Grondhal are sisters, they are fine together.  Patrick can go in the kitchen with them so long as he doesn’t intrude too much.

  But when Cilla comes in they all hiss and glare at her.