is it okay to keep two kittens together during “extended” socialization?
I’ve seen the recommendation to (temporarily) separate littermates from some feral-kitten-socializers, but I didn’t do that with my cats (I have four, three of whom are feral-born littermates I adopted when they were between 7-10 weeks old). Well, technically one of the three was separated from his brother and sister for 3 weeks, but he still lived outside during that time because that’s how long it took me to actually trap him after getting the other two! But anyway, when socializers make the separation recommendation, generally they are talking about kittens that are both younger than yours and in a much earlier stage of the socialization process. The idea is to get them to “bond” with a human (preferably multiple humans) early on, with the fear being that they will otherwise “rely too much on each other” for companionship, etc. That said, personally I find the very idea of separating kitties “so they can’t rely on each other” to be kind of awful. IMO you want them to come to trust h