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Bitter Anon
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Animals definitely are capable of grieving. Famous examples of this are: elephants, whales, many types of birds, lions, and humans.
If the cats were not close, then they likely don't care too much if the other one dies. I have only seen two instances of this.
One, was Snailkitten. Suprisingly, it wasn't over the death of her kitten, who she seemed extremely indifferent to, it was a rat. She was "raised" by a pair of elderly rats, and once she got too big for them, I let her play with my most favorite rat evar, Stewie. He was sweet, huge, and LOVED to play with her. They'd spend hours running around in circles on the floor, and then they would curl up and sleep in his cage together. When Stewie died, she tried to sleep in his cage, slept on his cage, and cried a lot. Then she got knocked up and now kittens so!
The other was when my dog had to be put to sleep. He'd been very close with my tomcat, and while it's been three years, the tom still likes to sleep in the dog's bed and on his sweater (I'm a sentimental fool, I know, for not throwing them out)
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