Timeline for For two kittens in the apartment, how important is gender?
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| May 22, 2014 at 23:06 | comment | added | Oldcat | Unspayed males are aggressive when competing for a female in heat. In my experience females are more concerned with 'turf' than males if all are neutered, but usually can accept any combination without problems. | |
| Jan 8, 2014 at 8:03 | history | edited | Esa Paulasto | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 6, 2014 at 1:34 | comment | added | jeremy | @Beofett That doesn't sound exactly correct to me. Though I've never had a cat, I'd think that both males and females would get overly aggressive. Males are definitely known for aggression, but I think female animals are more definite on whether they like a companion or not; if the answer is no, I think it's definitely harder to get them to live together than it is for males. | |
| Jan 5, 2014 at 22:11 | history | edited | Esa Paulasto | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 5, 2014 at 21:57 | comment | added | Zaralynda | Anecdotally, I have 2 males and 2 females, and the boys get along fine with everyone, but one girl can't stand several of the other cats (mostly the other girl, but sometimes the youngest boy). I think it varies more with personality than gender, tbh. | |
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| Jan 4, 2014 at 19:55 | history | edited | Esa Paulasto | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 3, 2014 at 17:31 | comment | added | Esa Paulasto | @beofett - I'm observing daily how it turns out at my home. Of our five cats two are neutered males, one unneutered male kitten, one spayed adult female and one unspayed adult female. So far no issues, but they are all relatively young, at or below 2 years of age. | |
| Jan 3, 2014 at 17:26 | comment | added | Beofett | For what it is worth, I have been advised that multiple males in a household is more likely to become problematic if there are also females present (theoretically because it prompts dominance and competition behaviors, even if all of the cats are spayed/neutered). However, I haven't directly experienced this (we've got 1 male and 3 females, currently, and only had pairs previously). | |
| Jan 3, 2014 at 8:37 | history | answered | Esa Paulasto | CC BY-SA 3.0 |