If you are thinking about getting a cat for the first time, you may have wondered whether it would be a good idea to get two, or perhaps you thought that cats are rather solitary animals that prefer to live by themselves. In Rudyard Kipling's famous 'Just-So' stories, the tale of 'The Cat that Walked By Himself' gives a fictionalised account about how all wild animals became domesticated by Man, apart from the cat who preferred to be independent, but in real life, most cats do prefer some company of their own kind as well as that of their owners. In purely practical terms, if you have two cats that are on reasonably good terms, they will be able to keep each other company if you are out at work all day, or when you have a weekend away or need to use a boarding cattery when you go on holiday. Two cats will not be so demanding, and will probably not try and wake you up early for attention, or meeow loudly when they want something. Isn't it enough to make you start looking for another cat immediately?