Hi,
Me(29) and my wife (35) have a beautiful "patched cat" that we love very much. She's cute and we give her a lot of affection but... She doesn't like our company so much we think. Why ? read on:
- She never comes to us when we're on the couch or the bed to play, cuddle or to be touched even.
- Whenever I approach her she goes away, or never lets me stroke her more than once
- The only time that she allows us to cuddle her is when she wants food.
- She wakes up my wife every morning at around 6u30 because she wants food and won't eat unless she stays with her.
- She stays on the window the whole day behind the "flyscreen" watching the birds, goes from one window to the other and just sleeps the rest of the day (we have an appartement without garden, sadly).
- She won't let us hold her for more than 10 sec before pushing us away.
It's like we're complaining now, but we're worried that she's not happy.
She's a very good cat in the way that she doesn't use her claws on our furniture, never...
Sometimes I think that we got her too early (6 weeks old) and that she
now has some character flaws, but she's actually ok with other cats (when she's done with blowing and guarding territory for 2 days or so).
Is there anything you can suggest to us to improve our relationship with our cat?
P.S.: we got her sterilised, and she has a lot of toys and a big climber.
Me(29) and my wife (35) have a beautiful "patched cat" that we love very much. She's cute and we give her a lot of affection but... She doesn't like our company so much we think. Why ? read on:
- She never comes to us when we're on the couch or the bed to play, cuddle or to be touched even.
- Whenever I approach her she goes away, or never lets me stroke her more than once
- The only time that she allows us to cuddle her is when she wants food.
- She wakes up my wife every morning at around 6u30 because she wants food and won't eat unless she stays with her.
- She stays on the window the whole day behind the "flyscreen" watching the birds, goes from one window to the other and just sleeps the rest of the day (we have an appartement without garden, sadly).
- She won't let us hold her for more than 10 sec before pushing us away.
It's like we're complaining now, but we're worried that she's not happy.
She's a very good cat in the way that she doesn't use her claws on our furniture, never...
Sometimes I think that we got her too early (6 weeks old) and that she
now has some character flaws, but she's actually ok with other cats (when she's done with blowing and guarding territory for 2 days or so).
Is there anything you can suggest to us to improve our relationship with our cat?
P.S.: we got her sterilised, and she has a lot of toys and a big climber.