Dr. Cliff Redford

So there are signs that you can look for.

If your partner wants another cat, you guys got to look at Tomato and maybe ask Tomato what he wants.

First of all, does Tomato get stressed out when change happens?

So that's a very good sign.

That is the first one on the list of not seven, but three signs that your cat probably doesn't want a sibling, a cat sibling, is that they get stressed out when changes happen.

Changes in the diet, changes in the litter type, changes in the location of the litter.

If you go away and they freak out, if you move, if the...

Garbage man comes, the garbage person comes at a different time of day.

All of a sudden the cat's freaking out.

That's the cat that doesn't need more changes in its life.

So that's the first sign.

Some cats are territorial.

They're territorial about like, hey, this is my spot on the couch.

Move.

Or they're going to swat at you.

Or if they see a cat or dog outside, outside the window, they start hissing and they start pawing at the window and they start peeing on your shoes.

That's a cat that probably doesn't want another cat.

So that's pretty obvious.

The last one is not really a sign, but just common sense.

If your cat is like older, like geriatric, more than 10 years old and or has health issues, you might want to reconsider it just because you don't know what that change is going to do to them.