Greetings All,

I have been lurking here for a few weeks gathering information about caring for Bengals. After June 16 I will pick up a retired queen (recently spayed, nearly 7yrs old) and a 14 week old male kitten. I am considering the additional acquisition of a male Abyssinian kitten who will also 14 weeks old in the third week of June. I thought it might be good if the Bengal kitten had a playmate of about the same age and energy level.

I have only ever owned one cat at a time. If I have two (or possibly three) cats, then how many water bowls and litter boxes would I need to have?

Perhaps it sounds silly to ask, but will cats share the same reservoir, or should there be separate bowls for water?

I have already purchased two large litter boxes. If I get the third cat, should I purchase a third litter box?

What is the best practice in regards to these issues? Any advice is greatly appreciated.

Hi Jeffrey

I have 5 cats, I have 3 litter trays in the house and 1 in the cat run.
My cats don't have any problems sharing the litter trays as long as you keep them clean (I completely change them all once a week, and remove poo straight away as well as any clumps of wee)
3 of my cats are moggies and go outside during the day, ones a bengal and ones maine coon these two are house cats

Food bowl I have five bowls for tinned food 3 bowls for just dried food 2 small bowls of water and one very big bowl of water (they mainly all drink out of the big bowl)

Hope this of some use to you

Naomi

Thank you for the response Oscarsaurus.

I know it's been a couple of weeks since your post, but I thought I'd chime in.

I have two Bengals and my husband brought two "moggies" (I'm American, but I am so adopting that word! So much better than "pound kitties" or "mutt kitties" or even "domestic shorthairs"!) into the marriage.

Four cats: Four small bowls for wet food, one big one for dry food (although we sometimes divide that up into the other bowls if everyone is at the trough at the same time) and a kitty water fountain. Yes, they are kind of silly, but my Bengals like to play in water and this keeps it relatively clean. It's also too big for them to move (a serious consideration-- I used to find the other one across the kitchen or in the dining room). I still have to fish toys out of it occasionally, though.

We also have two litter boxes. They all share just fine as long as we keep them clean (scoopable wheat or corn-based litter).

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