Ok, have a new rescue cat. I am fostering her with the intent to adopt her if she adapts to us and our home. She is probably less than a year Old. She was live trapped during a severe cold spell in MN and turned over to a animal shelter.
She hides all day under a cloth covered table In Our rec room. She does not appreciate being disturbed , hisses , but eats the treats I bring her. She routinely uses two liter boxes and eats like a princess which she comes upstairs to a sunroom every night at about 1030 pm for her dinner. She does not bite or cratch when I try to pet her but moves away when she has had enough contact. In other words she tolerates it for a short time. Our trip to the Vet for spaying, claw clipping and vaccinations was cancelled as we could not capture her and that put her and us thru stress and trauma . She has been rescheduled for the end of this month with the Vet.
Every night she comes into our bedroom from her downstairs hiding place and prowls in our room, watches us sleep, and stays awhile , and if we move she scatters but returns many times. I have a frlliway defuser plugged into the area she is hiding.
We don’t know if this young cat is a young feral cat or a lost stray or abandoned.
We want to adopt her but want to know how to further socialize her to be a pet not just a shadow in the night that we feed.
Any advice is welcome. By the way we have been homing her for about 5-6 weeks with very little change in behavior. Has anybody else had a cat that took this long to adapt?
Thanks
katymo’s MOm
She hides all day under a cloth covered table In Our rec room. She does not appreciate being disturbed , hisses , but eats the treats I bring her. She routinely uses two liter boxes and eats like a princess which she comes upstairs to a sunroom every night at about 1030 pm for her dinner. She does not bite or cratch when I try to pet her but moves away when she has had enough contact. In other words she tolerates it for a short time. Our trip to the Vet for spaying, claw clipping and vaccinations was cancelled as we could not capture her and that put her and us thru stress and trauma . She has been rescheduled for the end of this month with the Vet.
Every night she comes into our bedroom from her downstairs hiding place and prowls in our room, watches us sleep, and stays awhile , and if we move she scatters but returns many times. I have a frlliway defuser plugged into the area she is hiding.
We don’t know if this young cat is a young feral cat or a lost stray or abandoned.
We want to adopt her but want to know how to further socialize her to be a pet not just a shadow in the night that we feed.
Any advice is welcome. By the way we have been homing her for about 5-6 weeks with very little change in behavior. Has anybody else had a cat that took this long to adapt?
Thanks
katymo’s MOm