Sadly, my boy kitty passed away a month ago without warning. I still have his sister who is my baby girl. I’m ready to bring home a new baby, and there happens to be a litter of two kittens I plan to adopt from. They’re still a bit small to tell the sex, but the one I’m feeling more of a bond with seems to be female. I’ve always been partial to boy cats, but my life experience with cats is primarily with boys…so I’m wondering what people’s experience has been having two girls? Any particular issues you note? My landlady has two girls, and they’re both affectionate, but they don’t always get along I think.
I had two female cats and two male cats (a mother and some of her kittens we kept). The two male cats got along with all the others. The older female cat wanted to kill the younger one. I use “kill” without exaggeration. Some nasty and scary fights. It’s been 5 years since I’ve gotten rid of the older one and the younger one’s still jumpy.
If it matters, the older one was Siamese and her kittens were Siamese/street cat.
I’ve always had two spayed female cats. The first two pretty much ignored each other, although in times of stress (such as a visit to the vet) they would huddle together for reassurance.
The two I have now have an interesting relationship. One is extremely friendly and fearless; she always comes out to greet company, and she’ll even sit in the papasan chair with a dog. The other one is jealous when any household pet other than herself gets affection. She’s shy and disappears around company, but is extremely affectionate to me when I’m alone.
Friendly cat will often approach jealous cat and begin licking her. Jealous cat will submit as if she’s enjoying it. After a minute or two of this adorable scene, one of the two (usually friendly cat) will nip the other, they’ll bat at each other a few times, and separate, both looking scandalized.
The other scene they frequently play out is at night on our bed. Jealous cat does not want to share - if she and friendly cat get on the bed at the same time, she’ll give a sad, angry growl, then stalk off as if we’ve broken her heart.
Sometimes we wake up and have two cats sleeping with us. I think this happens if jealous cat is already asleep, and we are joined by friendly cat without jealous cat waking up.
When they are not acting out one of the above scenes, jealous cat and friendly cat spend a lot of time together sleeping in the same chair (not touching, but companionably close).
Conclusion: two female cats can work in a household, and their interactions can offer entertainment.
We have three females and one male. They all get along just fine.
Sounds like you’re talking about my cats!
My Fearless cat nearly got her whiskers burned off by being overly inquisitive when a visiting plumber was sweating some pipes together (with a blowtorch).
One of our amusement is that Shy cat will often start something with fearless cat, then hiss, swat, and generally act like she’s been attacked for no reason and stalk off pouting. Fearless cat usually gives me a “wtf” look at that point.
My two are both “used” cats (from shelters) and from separate litters, adopted at different times. They’re roughly the same age though. They aren’t the best of pals but they get along fine and can sometimes be found curled up near each other (esp in the winter).
If it makes a difference, the girl I have now is almost 3 years old and I’ve raised her since she was 8 weeks. She’s skittish around anyone but me, but is otherwise affectionate and sweet. Especially so since her brother passed away. I know she’s lonely. The kitten I’d be taking home will be 6-8 weeks old. Thoughts?
We have 2 female cats, but they were fostered together as kittens and we adopted them together - they’re effectively sisters. They get along great! I mean, it’s obvious that they sometimes annoy each other, but they’ve never actually tried to hurt each other. They snuggle and groom each other, play and play fight, and completely ignore each other.
I figure it’s worth trying, but it might be good to have a backup plan in case they really don’t get along.
I have 3 females who mostly get along. One of them has only been around for the last 2 years, and it took the older girls several months to warm up to her, but they all sleep together now, so I guess they’ve accepted her.
It really has little to do with gender, and more to do with the individual cats.
I was in a similar situation years ago. Adopted an adult cat (2 yrs they thought) who had been a stray. She was very reclusive and skittish and we decided to adopt another cat for companionship. Since she had come so far (went from a scared, hide under the bed kitty to a confident affectionate kitty), we didn’t want to adopt another adult cat who would come in and dominate her. So we got a kitten.
At first, the older cat would hiss at the kitten and seemed threatened by her. But after about a week or so of that drama, our older girl began to mother the kitten. They would sleep together and she would groom the kitten all the time. It became a very sweet mother-daughter type relationship.
My female cat was given another female cat for her own, when she turned one year old, and she took her time to accept the second cat. Later I got a third female cat, and this one bonded immediately with the first cat.
The first two grew to tolerate each other, but the first and third females became like best friends.
All these cats were spayed, and they each had a unique personality, like all cats do, but I never realized that like us humans, a cat will show an obvious preference for the company of one cat over another.
My sister has two (spayed) female cats and two (fixed) male cats.
The house is a war zone. She has to put up barriers everywhere, to keep them apart. It’s like some kind of four-phase anti-matter. (Quaternions!) The females hate each other the most; the males hate each other the next most. After that, one male hates one of the females a lot. The last two, who are mother and son, are more quietly antagonistic.
Feeding time is…dramatic.
As far as human contact, one of the females is friendly to people; the other three are reclusive, shy, and fretful, and will claw or bite if you try to stroke them.
My opinion is that cats should be kept as solitary pets, and that more than one is simply asking for trouble. (I keep none at all…apartment way too small…)
My parents have 2 spayed female cats who are 4 years old. They are not related but were in a cage together at the shelter (for a couple of weeks) so they just adopted both. They play-fight sometimes but it’s pretty rare and they generally get along very well. We often find them in a big furry pile sleeping together on the couch.
We’ve at various times had two lady-cats. There’s never been much affection between the any given pair of them, but no one’s ever drawn blood, either. They manage to coexist more or less peacefully eventually.
By far the best: When I was living with my parents, my kitty would be chillin’ on my bed. My parents’ kitty, who was also very fond of me, would come along, rub around on my hand while I was trying to study for the bar exam, and then hop on the bed and flop down half on top of my kitty. My kitty would look disgusted, growl a little bit… and then just swallow her pride and put up with it. Forty-five minutes later, my kitty is taking a bath and bathing on my parents’ kitty, because apparently kitties have no idea of where “I” ends and “You” begins. Heh. 
That sounds like the two ladies we have now. They met as adults (I had a cat and my husband had a cat, then we met) and they have never become friends; 12 years later they’re still hissing and growling at each other.
On the other hand, female cats are great. If they’re raised together and they are friendly to each other, I can’t see a reason why you wouldn’t have a pair of wonderful kitties.
All of our cats are fixed.
Of all the cats we’ve had – quite a few in the last 30 years – I’ve never had problems with the males getting along, but we’ve had massive problems with the females fighting. We have a female now that’s sweet as can be with people, but hisses and growls at the other cats (both genders). We have a female that’s fine with the male cats but can’t tolerate another female in her turf. I can’t recall the last time we had two female cats that got along with each other.
I have two female cats. Got the second 6 months after the first, when the first was almost a year old, and the second was a tiny kitten. They’re not BFFs, but they coexist peacefully, play-fight, clean each other, and once in a while even lie together all snuggly. No problems, ever. One (the older) is dominant over the other, but they don’t seem to have any problems with that arrangement.
I have two female cats- one was from the Humane Society, spayed and adopted when she was 7. Second was a stray found as a tiny kitten, adopted about a month after I got the older one. They get along fine. They’ll wrestle occasionally but I never hear any hissing or see any raised backs. They don’t seem like best gal pals or anything, but they are able to peacefully co-exist on my bed in the morning. 
I did have a big problem with my former roommate’s male, spayed, 3-ish year old cat. He absolutely would not leave my older cat alone and terrorized her nonstop. I would find huge chunks of fur that he had ripped out of her coat. I moved a few weeks ago and the change in her is amazing since I got her away from that bastard cat.
I guess I got lucky - we had a female cat that was about 1 year old when we got the other female kitten, tiny little thing. First three days she didn’t come out from under the dresser while the other one came by and hissed. Two months later, they became the greatest of friends. They always groomed each other, and always slept intertwined. See for yourself: http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f259/bigbadterr/DCP_0279.jpg
Unfortunately, the little one (well, she wasn’t that little when she grew up) died when she was 6. The big one kinda lost her joie de vivre since. We got a male cat since then, they kinda get along but are standoffish to each other.
I don’t think there are particular issues arising from have two female cats; if anything, two females are a little more likely to get along than two males. However, two cats can’t be guaranteed to get along, ever. Cats are far too individualistic to lump into any single category that way. The younger the cats are when introduced, the better. If one is a kitten at the time, he or she will quickly intuit that he or she is not the dominant cat in the house and will accept that more easily. If you adopt an adult cat into a household that already contains cats, those cats may never entirely accept the newcomer. My parents are in the middle of a two-year-long project to get a third cat accepted into their home. The third cat is no longer acting like a terrified refugee and does actually walk freely around the house, but fights are still a weekly occurrence. In conclusion, cats are territorial animals, and may never fully accept a newcomer. Then again, it may be no trouble at all. It all depends on the cats in question.
Can you take the new kitten home for a weekend to try out? That would probably give you more information than a thousand posts on this board.
It’s a total crapshoot. My mom’s female cat gets along well with my mom’s boyfriend’s female cat, and fights like hell with her brother. My family’s female cat growing up HATED every single cat except for her brother–they were very loving and almost never fought. He (the runt, lovey and naturally submissive) was very laid back and got along well with every cat he ever encountered, though.
As far as your situation is concerned, I think it’s important to see how well the cats will bond before you commit to adopting another one. Bring your cat to the kittens and see if she gets along better with one or the other. But if you’re already determined to adopt the female kitten, then I guess it doesn’t matter.