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Adopt a Bonded Pair of Rescue Cats and Get Twice the Love.
Can you save TWO cats in need?
BMD services towns and villages within the Blue Mountains, Lithgow, Bathurst, and beyond.
What Are Bonded Pairs?
Bonded pair rescue cats are two cats who share a special connection, bond, and relationship. They have paired as best buddies and soul mates.
Bonded pairs keep each other busy, then, at the end of the evening, they can go to bed next to someone they already know and love – besides you!
They need a forever family who will adopt them into their home and keep them together.
What Sometimes Happens in Adoptions:
When people adopt a cat, they often think one and only one is the way to go. After all, cats are a lot of work and responsibility, so one is the most sensible number to start with when considering adopting a rescue cat or kitten.
Later, however, many people may think their new furbaby needs a companion after a few months. They start searching rescues and shelters again for other cats needing a home. They did not realise that there was a perfect solution for them in the first place by adopting a bonded pair of rescue cats.
About Bonded Pairs:
Bonded pair relationships can form as kittens with littermates or perhaps with the mother cat (often not much older than her kittens). However, Bonded Pairs are not necessarily related. Bonding can also develop with other cats due to a shared traumatic experience, living with others, or being in foster care.
Sometimes cats may bond with other animals. We have all seen cute video clips of bonding between cats and dogs!
Bonded Pair - Teddy and Tinker: These two boys are a bonded pair of mature-age, loving gentlemen rescue cats. Teddy and Tinker lived in foster care for a considerable time before finally finding a caring family and forever home to call theirs.
It generally takes longer for bonded pairs of rescue cats to be adopted. Add to this a bonded pair of older cats or a cat with special needs, and it could take much longer for the right family to step up. Consequently two wonderful cats may be waiting, waiting, waiting. . .
What do Bonded Cats Do?
- Sleep together
- Play together and snuggle together
- Bonded pairs can also take me time, yet they then seek out their buddy
- Eat together and swap bowls
- Groom each other
- Give each other companionship and confidence
- Have the occasional hiss at each other (quickly resolved)
- Protect and look out for each other
- They often also fall in sync at the litter tray (handy to have extra litter trays)
Bonded Pair - Pecan and Truman: This rambunctious bonded pair of sister and brother littermates are bursting with joy, love, and affection for each other. They have kindly adopted a new human into their gorgeous, exuberant tribe.
10 Benefits of Adopting Bonded Pairs:
- A bonded pair will transition into your home easier
- No need to introduce another cat down the line
- Double the love and cuddles
- Endless entertainment (for each other and you)
- Home alone? Company for each other, less guilt for you
- A higher level of social development by spending time (particularly at an early age) with other cats
- Less destruction as a bonded pair will play with each other (not your curtains - hopefully)
- Less separation anxiety when you are not there
- A bonded pair will more easily fit in with an established feline family as they already have their soul mate
- You will be saving TWO lives (plus more by opening up space for the Foster Carer to take on another rescue cat or kitten)
Why Keep Bonded Pairs Together?
Keeping a bonded pair of rescue cats together ensures they remain happy and healthy.
Separating a bonded pair can adversely affect the health of both cats. Either or both cats can become anxious, distressed, restless, and act out. They may also become depressed, lethargic, hide, refuse food, and lose confidence.
Separated Bonded Pairs will take longer to adjust.
Losing a soulmate from separation is a traumatic experience. Grief is as genuine for cats as it is for us.
* See this link for more information: How to Help a Grieving Cat
What to Think About Before You Adopt a Bonded Pair
If you are thinking of adopting a bonded pair of rescue cats, you may want to consider the following:
Do you have the space for two cats that may be very active?
Do you have the time to commit to two cats?
Do you have funds for additional food, vet bills, medications, boarding fees, and resources (equipment, carry cases, bedding, toys, bowls, litter, and litter trays)?
Sum-Up
We do our best to keep bonded pairs of rescue cats together. It makes transitioning to a new home easier. It saves them the trauma of being torn away from someone they love. Besides- it’s double the cats to love (and love you)!
If, after considering adopting a bonded pair, you answer YES! Congratulations, you are on your way to twice the cuddles, twice the love, and twice the joy.
Check out our Cats for Adoption for any Bonded Pairs. And Jackson Galaxy - Why You Should Get Another Cat
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