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Hi there! This is my first post on this site.
2 weeks ago, my boyfriend and I adopted a cat/kitten from our local animal shelter. Dora is nine months old, and was at the shelter for about a week and a half before we adopted her. Before that she had had no human contact as far as we know. At the shelter she was shy but warmed up to us quickly; we met her there twice before taking her home and by the second visit she was approaching us to be pet!
When we took her home she was (understandably) frightened- she hid behind our couch for about an hour, then moved to our bookshelf and eventually allowed us to pick her up and hold/pet her. We stayed in the living room petting and holding her for the rest of the day, and she seemed happy, or at least not scared. But that night she hid under our guest bed and hasn't "hung out" with us at all. She eats and uses her litter box, but never when we're in the room (since she is hiding in the guest room, we've put the litter box and her food and water in there). She's explored the living room a little bit, because we have another litter box for her in there, and occasionally we'll catch a glimpse of her late at night going to use that one. We've made eye contact/she's seen us looking at her a few times, and she freezes and then slinks off. She doesn't run away anymore (she did the first time she saw us after the first night), which leads me to believe she isn't as scared, but I just don't know how much longer I can expect her to stay in hiding/if this kind of behavior is normal.
Everywhere I've looked says it can take cats around two weeks to come out, but today marks two weeks and I'm getting worried.
Any advice or feedback would be really appreciated
2 weeks ago, my boyfriend and I adopted a cat/kitten from our local animal shelter. Dora is nine months old, and was at the shelter for about a week and a half before we adopted her. Before that she had had no human contact as far as we know. At the shelter she was shy but warmed up to us quickly; we met her there twice before taking her home and by the second visit she was approaching us to be pet!
When we took her home she was (understandably) frightened- she hid behind our couch for about an hour, then moved to our bookshelf and eventually allowed us to pick her up and hold/pet her. We stayed in the living room petting and holding her for the rest of the day, and she seemed happy, or at least not scared. But that night she hid under our guest bed and hasn't "hung out" with us at all. She eats and uses her litter box, but never when we're in the room (since she is hiding in the guest room, we've put the litter box and her food and water in there). She's explored the living room a little bit, because we have another litter box for her in there, and occasionally we'll catch a glimpse of her late at night going to use that one. We've made eye contact/she's seen us looking at her a few times, and she freezes and then slinks off. She doesn't run away anymore (she did the first time she saw us after the first night), which leads me to believe she isn't as scared, but I just don't know how much longer I can expect her to stay in hiding/if this kind of behavior is normal.
Everywhere I've looked says it can take cats around two weeks to come out, but today marks two weeks and I'm getting worried.
Any advice or feedback would be really appreciated