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I have joined TheCatSite today and would firstly like to say hello and also thank you for allowing me to take part.
We have over the last 12 months been fostering cats for a short period of time, before a new home could be found. It is wonderful, except that we now have a cat that we just cant fathom out. She is a stray, we think about 2 to 3 years old. She hides all day and is so utterly nervous. She will come out readily to eat but will then run off and hide. She eats very well and has no problem with her appetite or toileting. She is also toilet trained and a very good and clean girl.
In the evening, with lights on she will come out and be fussed and loves to be handled and stroked. When its time for us to go to bed, she runs off and hides again and we will not see her again until we find her in the morning for food.
She is a really unfathomable. We try everything to encourage her to be more social. We mostly adopt a very gentle soft approach so not to frighten or intimidate her. No response at all. She is a real enigma.
Please, if you have previous experience of this or understand this predicament any help would be so gratefully received. We are at a loss and somehow feel so sad for her. That said we have no knowledge of her background or history or previous ownership or treatment.
Many thanks for reading this.
George
We have over the last 12 months been fostering cats for a short period of time, before a new home could be found. It is wonderful, except that we now have a cat that we just cant fathom out. She is a stray, we think about 2 to 3 years old. She hides all day and is so utterly nervous. She will come out readily to eat but will then run off and hide. She eats very well and has no problem with her appetite or toileting. She is also toilet trained and a very good and clean girl.
In the evening, with lights on she will come out and be fussed and loves to be handled and stroked. When its time for us to go to bed, she runs off and hides again and we will not see her again until we find her in the morning for food.
She is a really unfathomable. We try everything to encourage her to be more social. We mostly adopt a very gentle soft approach so not to frighten or intimidate her. No response at all. She is a real enigma.
Please, if you have previous experience of this or understand this predicament any help would be so gratefully received. We are at a loss and somehow feel so sad for her. That said we have no knowledge of her background or history or previous ownership or treatment.
Many thanks for reading this.
George