My fiancé and I adopted our cat (2y/o male) over a year ago, and he's brought so much happiness into our lives it's crazy. He's turned my ambivalent fiancé into a huge cat lover and advocate for adoption.
At the moment, we're both students, so we've had flexible schedules where we're able to be home with him. But over the next year or so we will both move into longer hours (anywhere from 8-10 hours away from home). He's an incredibly social cat, and loves to be around us. I would say most of the time, he's in the same room we are hanging out or trying to get involved with what we're doing. I'm worried that when our schedules change, he'll get really lonely and unhappy.
When we adopted him, he had a brother that was adopted just a week prior, but I'm unsure if they were caged together. Otherwise, as far as I know he hasn't interacted with other cats much. The only other time is when he met my parents cat by accident (through a glass door) twice, and that went horribly. We are open to getting another cat, but obviously don't want to do so if it's going to make him miserable. We live in a 1bd apartment in a large city, so there wouldn't be much room for them to get away from one another (750 sqft). How have you decided to add another cat into your home, and did it work? Do cats get lonely enough where they would need a friend?
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