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I'm sure you guys have seen lots of posts like this. We've had our newly adopted kitten for 2 weeks now. He is about 6 months old. We got him from a local feline rescue. He comes out at night and loves to play. We had been keeping him in our bedroom but just recently (yesterday) had to help him venture into the rest of the house because he was keeping us up at night. We had started this process gradually by keeping our bedroom door open and letting him roam on his own. Once we had confirmation that he was going into the rest of our house (it's a small one bedroom apartment) on his own, we moved his litter box and food to the other portion of the house so we could finally get some sleep.
He's eating, drinking, and using the litter box just fine but only at night, or when we are not home. He loves to be pet, (as evidenced by purring, and nudging your hand with his head, or rolling on his back when you are petting him) but doesn't make any effort to be pet or get attention. He'll take treats from your hand when it's placed close to him, but won't move to try to get a treat. This has been pretty consistent behavior over the past two weeks.
We're just not seeing much progress towards him coming out and are getting concerned. At lot of the sites I've read state that at about 2 weeks you should be seeing some progress. We're not sure even sure at what point we should be concerned to be honest. When on his own, he does shake like he is scared and this doesn't seem to be fading. The shaking goes away when he is being pet. I'm wondering if we should start looking into some natural remedies to help him calm down a bit?
Thanks in advance!
Amanda
He's eating, drinking, and using the litter box just fine but only at night, or when we are not home. He loves to be pet, (as evidenced by purring, and nudging your hand with his head, or rolling on his back when you are petting him) but doesn't make any effort to be pet or get attention. He'll take treats from your hand when it's placed close to him, but won't move to try to get a treat. This has been pretty consistent behavior over the past two weeks.
We're just not seeing much progress towards him coming out and are getting concerned. At lot of the sites I've read state that at about 2 weeks you should be seeing some progress. We're not sure even sure at what point we should be concerned to be honest. When on his own, he does shake like he is scared and this doesn't seem to be fading. The shaking goes away when he is being pet. I'm wondering if we should start looking into some natural remedies to help him calm down a bit?
Thanks in advance!
Amanda