My wife and I are fostering kittens for the first time. We got two little brothers (Butters and Beans) and have been taking care of them for 4 weeks. They're pretty inseparable. They play together, fight together, sleep together, eat together, non stop all day long. We took them to their first adoption event and right at the end of the night Butters was adopted but not Beans :(
Despite our best efforts to convince the new kitty parents to take both home they wouldn't budge, and the shelter with whom we're fostering doesn't allow you to put conditions on your kittens getting adopted like "Adopt both or adopt none".
I took it really hard. I was a little sad to lose this little kitten I'd come to love but really devastated that these brothers would never see each other again, and there was nothing we could do about it. This hit me especially hard because when my wife and I adopted our cat 4 years ago we separated him from his brother, foolishly thinking our place was too small for two cats, and I think he has some personality issues now because of it.
I feel like our job was to get these cats on a road to a happy long life and we failed at that.
Am I making too big a deal about this or should we have done something differently? Is this something that happens frequently with fostering? Now I don't know what's best for our remaining foster kitten, Beans. We talked about fostering another solo kitten so he wouldn't be alone, but we run the risk of this just happening over and over again.
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