I adopted a 1 year old male cat on Sunday. He was recommended to me by my aunt who saw on Facebook that this cat needed a new home. As I was looking for a new cat, I thought "why not?" and went to the foster home to get him.
When I took him from the foster home, the foster mom told me that she didn't see any behavioural problems. I took her word for it and left with the new cat. However, it took my 10 minutes to see that my new cat is not normal.
He yowls non-stop and paces around my room in circles. He startles whenever there is a noise or a sudden movement. He is extremely needy, and if I leave my room for a minute, his yowling intensifies. However, when I return to him, he will be afraid and he will hide under my bed again.
His toilet habits are strange as well. He uses his litter box but what I noticed was that he doesn't go to the toilet for the whole day and would suddenly relieve himself repeatedly in quick succession. While he uses his litter box, he has also poo-ed outside of the litter box in various parts of my room. It is also worrying to me that his feces smells so bad and that they are also really runny. Almost like pee.
That might be due to his strange eating habits as well. He eats and drinks a lot and at a very fast speed. He drinks one whole bowl of water at one go.
I contacted the rescuer as the foster mom was pretty insistent she didn't know anything about him. The rescuer was pretty rude, to be honest. When I asked her if the cat had any problems that I should know about, she just told me off and said "Can't you be more patient? Don't you know how to introduce a cat to a new household? He doesn't have any problems." I tried telling her what I said above but she just said that it is only the third day since I got him and that I should just be patient.
I am really at my wits' end as I am trying really hard to be patient but to be honest, I feel like I did not sign up for this. If I had known that he had anxiety issues that are this bad, I wouldn't have taken him. I have taken care of cats my whole life, and I think I know what normal cat behaviour looks like. This cat is not normal and as much as I really want to be patient and commit to caring for him unconditionally, I simply can't. I do not have the time or energy to take care of a needy cat, whose constant yowling had disrupted my sleep, as well as my neighbours. I had to physically remove myself from the cat when he was yowling today because I was afraid of what I would do to him.
I cannot put him outside in the living room because I have another cat who is frightened of my new cat. I also have no other rooms available to quarantine him in. So he is stuck in my room.
Is there any way I can improve the situation? Or should I return him to the rescuer?
Really hoping for some advice. Thanks.
When I took him from the foster home, the foster mom told me that she didn't see any behavioural problems. I took her word for it and left with the new cat. However, it took my 10 minutes to see that my new cat is not normal.
He yowls non-stop and paces around my room in circles. He startles whenever there is a noise or a sudden movement. He is extremely needy, and if I leave my room for a minute, his yowling intensifies. However, when I return to him, he will be afraid and he will hide under my bed again.
His toilet habits are strange as well. He uses his litter box but what I noticed was that he doesn't go to the toilet for the whole day and would suddenly relieve himself repeatedly in quick succession. While he uses his litter box, he has also poo-ed outside of the litter box in various parts of my room. It is also worrying to me that his feces smells so bad and that they are also really runny. Almost like pee.
That might be due to his strange eating habits as well. He eats and drinks a lot and at a very fast speed. He drinks one whole bowl of water at one go.
I contacted the rescuer as the foster mom was pretty insistent she didn't know anything about him. The rescuer was pretty rude, to be honest. When I asked her if the cat had any problems that I should know about, she just told me off and said "Can't you be more patient? Don't you know how to introduce a cat to a new household? He doesn't have any problems." I tried telling her what I said above but she just said that it is only the third day since I got him and that I should just be patient.
I am really at my wits' end as I am trying really hard to be patient but to be honest, I feel like I did not sign up for this. If I had known that he had anxiety issues that are this bad, I wouldn't have taken him. I have taken care of cats my whole life, and I think I know what normal cat behaviour looks like. This cat is not normal and as much as I really want to be patient and commit to caring for him unconditionally, I simply can't. I do not have the time or energy to take care of a needy cat, whose constant yowling had disrupted my sleep, as well as my neighbours. I had to physically remove myself from the cat when he was yowling today because I was afraid of what I would do to him.
I cannot put him outside in the living room because I have another cat who is frightened of my new cat. I also have no other rooms available to quarantine him in. So he is stuck in my room.
Is there any way I can improve the situation? Or should I return him to the rescuer?
Really hoping for some advice. Thanks.