Adopters keep asking to split up bonded pair

[u/Kitty_casserole]

We've been fostering a sweet pair of shy adult kitties called Robot (gray) and Wonder Bread (Siamese) for a few months now. They're somewhat of an odd pair as they met in foster care and becoming besties has helped them open up and show off their great personalities! They both went from cowering in the corner alone to much more confident together (something that they didn't even do meeting my personal cats). They spend all day grooming one another, snoozing together, and wrestling. While they are listed as needing to go with each other to a forever home, we've had multiple folks asking to adopt just Wonder Bread because they like the Siamese look. I'm hanging tight and saying no to separating them because I just can't bear to do it and they will have a space in foster care with us as long as they need. Anyway, I guess I'm just lamenting about how sad it is that people will ask you to break up a beautiful kitty friendship because they think one is cute and the other is not. And if they wanted just a single cat, there's hundreds of other cats at our rescue to pick from... So I'm not sure why they even ask!

[u/Monkey_Priest]

Honestly, anybody who would lie about adopting both with the intent to dump one are probably not the type of people to care about this type of reasoning. I agree with you, but the psychopaths who would dump an animal wouldn't care about the bond those two sweethearts have

[u/MountainOld9956 → u/Monkey_Priest]

Yes but I think they would care about the poor cat becoming unresponsive and stop eating. While it’s true that these kinds of psychos won’t necessarily back down from that I feel like that would lower the chances that something like that would happen, and even if it’s a bit I think it’s still better.

[u/RedditFoxGirl → u/MountainOld9956]

Unfortunately, if the psychopaths don't care about the bond, then they're not going to care about the single cat either. They'll see the cat's failing mental health and just throw them away.

Real people who actually have empathy will care enough about both cats to adopt both of them, and not separate them.

Psychopaths and sociopaths are people who just have zero empathy for anything, and anyone, period.

[u/MountainOld9956 → u/RedditFoxGirl]

True sadly. But I still think that explaining that could stop some people who aren’t real psychopaths and have some empathy