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Hi, there! Okay, I've read a lot about introducing cats and kittens and cats and cats, but how about getting your new kitty to like other people in the house besides you? Tiny Dancer has been here just over a week now, and she seems to love her new home and she has bonded very well with me it seems. She mostly sticks to her "safe room" which is the dining room and my bedroom, but will come out and explore the rest of the house if I am with her and she feels safe. I've spent a LOT of time with her on the floor, playing, feeding her, petting her. All the stuff it takes to bond with her. I am definitely her person! What I need advice about is she is still skittish around my grown son who lives with me. He is very kind and would never hurt her, but he is very tall and loud without meaning to be, and somewhat childlike, because he has Asperger's Syndrome. I am not worried that the kitten is in any danger from him at all, I just want to stress that! He's kind of like a big Golden Retriever that just wants to come up and say hi, but is not good at patient introductions. It's just that she's skittish of him, and I would like them to be a little closer and at least comfortable around each other, especially in case anything ever happens to me, and also so she won't run out of the room every time he comes home from work.
I'm thinking I need to get him to sit quietly and patiently and play with her and/or give her treats. This is hard for him to do, unfortunately, but I will keep encouraging him to do so. He does like to do the red dot light around the room for her. He is crazy about her, he just doesn't quite know how to bond with a cat. Any other ideas? And will l this get better with time as she adjusts more to her home?
I'm thinking I need to get him to sit quietly and patiently and play with her and/or give her treats. This is hard for him to do, unfortunately, but I will keep encouraging him to do so. He does like to do the red dot light around the room for her. He is crazy about her, he just doesn't quite know how to bond with a cat. Any other ideas? And will l this get better with time as she adjusts more to her home?