Good morning or other time of day

@JourneymanGeek You do you I guess!

@SerenaT Morning.

I've observed jealousy in pets; while there's not the societal implication that you'd have with children, there's still a definite impact on animals. Beatrice definitely gets "jealous" if there's a kitten in the house, because she's "the baby." (Generally she then realizes it's a foster or boarding situation and starts playing with them within a couple of days.)

Yeah, our less-favoured cat often beats up our more-favoured one.

Which leads to him being less favoured...

My previous cat was one of a litter of three; the other two got more attention from family members because he was a little weird about being held and they were polydactyl (for some reason it didn't dawn on us for a while that he was calico, so actually more "special" than the other two). I did my best to give all three equal attention, so he ended up bonded to me, and was a great companion, but jealous of any hint of another cat.

I do my best with the current trio to give all of them attention; they all have their own preferences on how and when they get it though

We're a one pet at a time household

(and I suspect its going to be a while before we get another dog)

@Sarov In our household different people had different favourites. So did the cats. I think that might be natural as well and I do not think anyone feels left out. The most jealousy we had was from people the cats did not prefer because they got less cuddles in