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Has anybody ever had a confident cat take a fright and then become permanently more shy?
Neither of my cats have been shy before. Theyre about 9 months ish i think. Last week we had a guy in to install some internet. In a series of unfortunate events, he dropped a box of screws and as he was trying to grab it dropped a coil of loud cable... Ari (my confident boy) then smashed a teacup jumping onto the counter with fright. All this noise plus a stranger in the flat was too much for Socks (my cuddly boy) and he absolutely lost it, running up the walls trying to find safety, crying and trying to hide, I couldn't help him it was awful. He wouldn't come out from under the bed for 3 hours, not even for tuna so I knew it was serious - and he wasn't right for about 2 days after. Luckily hes not hurt though, he let me check him. Slowly he's gone back to normal but he seems to jump more at noises and even had a bushy-tail-attack when I put on new slippers that were big and fluffy. Only Ari now runs to the door to greet us but they used to come together. We now have my partners dad visiting and Socks had a little panic when the stranger walked in, which he's never done before. Bushed tail, low to the ground, hiding, the works.
It seems unlikely that one event would change his whole personality, but the scare was about 8 days ago...has anyone else had this happen?! He's healthy in all other ways - I checked his paws and he', not limping, he's eating drinking etc so I'm confident he's not acting strange through pain.
Thanks x
Neither of my cats have been shy before. Theyre about 9 months ish i think. Last week we had a guy in to install some internet. In a series of unfortunate events, he dropped a box of screws and as he was trying to grab it dropped a coil of loud cable... Ari (my confident boy) then smashed a teacup jumping onto the counter with fright. All this noise plus a stranger in the flat was too much for Socks (my cuddly boy) and he absolutely lost it, running up the walls trying to find safety, crying and trying to hide, I couldn't help him it was awful. He wouldn't come out from under the bed for 3 hours, not even for tuna so I knew it was serious - and he wasn't right for about 2 days after. Luckily hes not hurt though, he let me check him. Slowly he's gone back to normal but he seems to jump more at noises and even had a bushy-tail-attack when I put on new slippers that were big and fluffy. Only Ari now runs to the door to greet us but they used to come together. We now have my partners dad visiting and Socks had a little panic when the stranger walked in, which he's never done before. Bushed tail, low to the ground, hiding, the works.
It seems unlikely that one event would change his whole personality, but the scare was about 8 days ago...has anyone else had this happen?! He's healthy in all other ways - I checked his paws and he', not limping, he's eating drinking etc so I'm confident he's not acting strange through pain.
Thanks x