Should I get a cat?

[Canadian Socialist]

I lost my little one 6 months ago after being with her for 20 years. I've been offered an adorable kitty, but I just can't seem to make the leap. Maybe I'm just not ready?

[Maestro]

1. If you are not ready, don't do it.

But if you were offered one, perhaps it is your previous one talking to you from the beyond.

[ScreamingMeemie]

2. Take a "test drive". Keep kitty for a day...I bet you'll get your answer.

I am so sorry you lost your cat. I truly dread the day that Merlin says goodbye. :hug:

[autorank]

3. The kitten will help. You are ready because you're a kind cat

person. Any cat who sticks around 20 years does so, at the end anyway, for their master (or in the case of cat owners, their pet).

Kittens are great, it's just been a while...come on, "adorable"...go for it. The cat needs you (to be it's slave, but that's our role).

[Shrubhater]

4. Go with it. You're saving another young life if you do.

Maybe you aren't ready, but go for it anyway. As long as you have memories of your cat, then the cat is still alive(in your heart)

[Canadian Socialist]

6. I think what's holding me back

isn't so much that I don't want another cat. It's that I feel I can't do right by it. It's very expensive to get the shots, the neutering/spaying, and tattoo. And, not to put too fine a point on it, I'm pretty skint right now. It lives just upstairs w/its mum and it is being cared for, so it's not a rescue or anything. I think I need to "shop around"; maybe go to the SPCA and get an older one that might be up for the chamber <shudder>.

[meti57b]

5. yes, get the cat.

A new kitty will never replace the one you lost, but he/she will keep you company.

[pansypoo53219]

7. i had to get cats after i lost my

last of childood cats. i didn't want to wait months, but had to. and it took a while for the new pair to worm their way in. and then i lost my cosmo and i didn't want to have only one and wait for her to go and i wanted future cats from the same litter like the 1st 2, so now i have 3 and it's great, and i have spares for when the inevitable comes.