Hello All.
I am new to the site and need some encouraging advice.
My boyfriend and I just brought home a new Himalayan kitten two days ago and he is amazing! Obsessed is an understatement… I am in love with this precious little guy.
His name is Guinness and is about 8 weeks old. We have given him a “safe room†away from the rest of the house in our bedroom which has a joining bathroom. The room has been kitten proofed (no exposed electrical wires, no accessible garbage cans, no fragile items left on dressers or shelves, etc.). I have made him a ramp to the bed since he seems to like to sleep up there and he’s too small to jump up right now and he is in there with this water, food, litter, bed, scratching post and toys. All and all he seems quite happy.
He got comfortable with us right away… he already purrs when we pick him up, he’ll let us touch his paws and his ears, he has been sleeping with us every night so far and kneading on us and nuzzling next to us… all in all wants to be close to us. The guy we got him from socializes his animals extremely well and it is very obvious with Guinness. We had a few people come over and see him and he loved all the attention… even with 6 people crammed into a little room fawning over him. He slept the whole car ride home and only cried when he wanted on our bed his first night. He does cry when we leave the room but it seems to stop after a few minutes.
I was able to be home with him the first two days and now I have returned to work. We both work out of the house 8-10 hours a day with our commutes and I am worried that he is going to be so lonely. We would have gotten two kittens if it had been financially feasible, but it wasn’t.
Is this too long for a kitten so young to be left alone? Will he be a well adjusted cat with a schedule like this?
I just hope that we will be able to give him the happiest life ever and that he realizes that he wasn’t abandoned and will still love us!
I know it might sound silly but I am a wreck just thinking about him being alone all day.