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Originally Posted by October
I've never been sure whether to trust those "must be an only" labels the shelters puts on cats
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Me either. I find it really frustrating because quite often the cat is in foster or a shelter with open rooms with other cats anyway.
I always wonder why SO MANY cats up for adoption have that "must be only" tag. I always suspect previous owners didn't clean litter boxes often enough.
I mean, yes, some cats hate other cats and will do absolutely anything to get away from them but in my experience they are fairly rare. We had one declawed shelter rescue, years ago, that literally *ran out the door* and ran away...we found out later she had moved herself in with the elderly bachelor next door and taken over
...but that's one cat in many years who really "must" have been an only cat.
Of course I've had other cats who didn't like the cats they were currently living with, or didn't like being picked on, or didn't like other cats using their litter boxes, or didn't like other cats around when they were eating, or really probably would have *preferred* being only cat if that were an option.
I always think that the number of potential single-cat homes must be fairly small. I mean, how many cat lovers don't have a cat already? I know there are people who are just moving out on their own for the first time or whatever, but still it's a relatively small number.
