So a little backstory I have had my cat Penny ever since she was very young about 7 weeks and she is 5 now. I have been with my boyfriend for about 4 years so they are well acquainted with one another and she doesn’t have a problem with him but she is quite a skittish cat by nature. My bf and I don’t live together currently but did previously however he moved home with his mother to save some $ since wanting to go back to school. Anyways my bf has always been the one to come over to my apartment through the years mostly bc I hate leaving my cat alone lol but I realized how unreasonable that is of me and I have been staying at his mothers with him for 3 nights a week or so. It’s starting to become quite consistent and I’ve noticed Penny will cry more and more each time I come home. Like I seem to notice it just getting louder and longer and I always feel so bad because I feel like she’s clearly trying to say she’s upset with me!
Another important point would be my boyfriend has recently gotten a kitten or more so his mother has (as in I don’t think the cat will be with us once we move in together again) and we did introduce them briefly a month or so ago but Penny was quite aggressive towards him understandably. I’m not sure if it was because she hasn’t been around other kittens ever or has just become used to being with me alone for so long. I got Penny as a freshman in college and I went to school a few hours away from my hometown and would visit about every other weekend (5 hour round trip) so she’s quite used to the car and moving around in a sense? My parents have 3 other cats and for a brief period I even had another cat living with Penny and I because my friend was getting rid of her but I’ve since rehomed that cat to my parents because she was infested with fleas and infested Penny and it was a stressful ordeal all around. I’m getting super offhand here but my question is if it would be dumb to bring Penny with me when staying at my boyfriends? I’d like to think she’s more flexible with change considering how often we would travel when she was young and how she has been around other cats before! But I’m not sure if it would ultimately just be more stressful since it would be 3-4 days here. I live 25 mins away from my bf and have been going to check on her every other day but it’s not the best scenario for the long run! I’d obviously bring her her own bed and treats/dish along with keeping her only in my bfs bedroom for the first few weeks along with swapping scents etc. I mainly want to just to be able to be giving her attention like she typically gets and I’m worried about her! It only worries me so much because I really can’t think of a time in her life where I would ever be gone from her for so long so I’m not sure if her reaction is normal or she’s experiencing anxiety from me being gone.
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from Pets https://www.reddit.com/r/Pets/comments/i3frqe/bringing_my_cat_to_my_boyfriends_home/
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