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Hi All and a Happy New Year to everyone.
I need some advice please so I can progress further forward with a rescue cat.
I have a smoke grey female cat aged between 9 and 11 years and she is half Siamese but you would not know it to look at her.
She is however very nervous and runs away a lot. I have had her now for about a month and she came from Cats Protection. She is very nervous of me especially when I am up on my feet and walking around the house or busy doing things. She will run off and hide out of the way if I am downstairs she will hide upstairs.
A typical example is as follows. I go home tonite she will come out and be sociable and probably spend the evening either with me or on my lap when I sit down and she will purr, loves her head and chin stroked and just falls asleep without a care in the world. I make a bed up for her in the evening on the armchair before I go to bed where she quite happily stays all night.
However in the morning when I come downstairs she runs and hides and then goes upstairs and hides in the bedroom and this seems to be the daily routine thus far.
My question is has anyone out there experienced this kind of nervous behaviour and how did you get around it so you could let her out in the garden and just allow her to have a normal life and get over this nervousness.
With CP's help we managed to trace a member of the previous owners family who said that she had never been away from the lady who had her or been moved around or been in a cattery before so it may be this that has caused the problem, I am not sure.
If anyone has any definitive, positive answers as to how to get around this I would be very interested to hear them.
Thank you all
Take care
Paul London
I need some advice please so I can progress further forward with a rescue cat.
I have a smoke grey female cat aged between 9 and 11 years and she is half Siamese but you would not know it to look at her.
She is however very nervous and runs away a lot. I have had her now for about a month and she came from Cats Protection. She is very nervous of me especially when I am up on my feet and walking around the house or busy doing things. She will run off and hide out of the way if I am downstairs she will hide upstairs.
A typical example is as follows. I go home tonite she will come out and be sociable and probably spend the evening either with me or on my lap when I sit down and she will purr, loves her head and chin stroked and just falls asleep without a care in the world. I make a bed up for her in the evening on the armchair before I go to bed where she quite happily stays all night.
However in the morning when I come downstairs she runs and hides and then goes upstairs and hides in the bedroom and this seems to be the daily routine thus far.
My question is has anyone out there experienced this kind of nervous behaviour and how did you get around it so you could let her out in the garden and just allow her to have a normal life and get over this nervousness.
With CP's help we managed to trace a member of the previous owners family who said that she had never been away from the lady who had her or been moved around or been in a cattery before so it may be this that has caused the problem, I am not sure.
If anyone has any definitive, positive answers as to how to get around this I would be very interested to hear them.
Thank you all
Take care
Paul London