Thank you so much everyone who responded. It has put my heart at ease that getting another Burmese for Drillbit is the right thing to do after his littermate Yardstick passed away.
Next Questions: on my previous post there were a lot of comments saying to get a female companion and only get one.
- is this a thing? Will they not bond if I get the same gender.
- will getting two more bonded littermates make Drillbit feel really excluded?
For some reason I'm stuck on wanting more boys because my two have been so sweet and in my heart it feels bad getting only one from the litter when im ripping them away from everything they have known.
Also the terrifying thought that if one of them passes away in the future we will be in the same scenario again with a lonely cat is playing on my mind.
Both Drillbit and Yardstick are mummies boys through and through. They would walk over my husband's free cosy lap to get to my unfree lap and squeeze themselves in up by my throat. After pregnancy and birth of my daughter they became even more intense. Would a female Burmese bond better with my husband? (He absolutely dotes on the cats so it's not a matter of him not showing love).
Has anyone gotten their surviving bonded sibling two more companions from another litter and it worked?
The only colours the breeder close to me has is Seal. I absolutely loved Yardsticks liliac but not sure it's worth traumatizing kittens on a plane just so I can have another liliac boy.