Hello,
Last July we had to send off our beloved Birman cat to his ultimate journey en since then the other cat, a simple european 6yo shorthair rescue cat seems lost. The first circle around me has always been the Birman's space. The outer circle was Nemo's. The Birman had a difficult character and a manual of many pages. Nemo on the contrary has always been kind, sweet and loves to cuddle. Since he is an only feline child he is in my face the entire day. He wants to be in my lap, talks, and seems to be having a hole in his life. He scraped his belly so it is pink and bald. Prednison did not help. We wil buy Feliway one of these days. I realise the bald tummy can be caused by allergy, boredom, stress, hormones. He did have a pred shot for the itchy (?) tummy but that did not help and we will not go there again.
Now I fell in love with the Bengal breed. Looks, size, but the character puzzles me.
Our family consists of a husband and wife and grown up son, Nemo the cat a pet bunny and a Toller dog. So we know about energy. While we are home, the son will be gone for the working day.
A bengal kitten or cat (any cat) in our household has to live in the livingroom/kitchen solely because we do not allow animals upstairs in the sleeping quarters. The livingroom is not small but we don't live in a palace.
Nemo is not allowed to go outside, there is more traffic than we care for. The stairs in the livingroom has always been a scratch post for the cat(s) and we don't care to replace the carpet parts on there from time to time..
Here's to where I would love to hear your opinions. Do you think a Bengal kitten/cat could be happy in my house, can we offer enough for him/her to be happy? Do you think having (any) new kitten can help fill the gap in Nemo's life or will it just bring more frustration and stress? Do you think there IS a gap in Nemo's life at all, or is he in my face because he can and never could because the Birman was in the inner circle? (I have never whitnessed any pecking order issue between the 2 of them)
Most of all interesting for us humans: In behaviour, what is/are the most important differences between a stray cat and a Bengal?
I have been reading this and that and will be, but most thing I find are written in general and of course not specific for our situation.
I hope for you to share your thoughts.
Thanks for reading anyway.
Now I'll just read on as I'm still learning.
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