Hello everyone-
As you can tell, I am new here.
My wife and I rescued our cat Maya from a city shelter in June 2006 when we lived in New York. In July/August 2008 we got married and moved to Virginia. Maya has been a great cat so far. She sleeps at night in our bed, is playful, she always does her business where it should be done and is generally really sweet to us. She is about 2 1/2 (we resued her when she was about 1)
Just today we rescued a new cat who we think we are calling Sophie. She is 10 months and seems to be a lap cat....when we visited her all she wanted to do was kneed my legs and just hang out on my lap. We brought Sophie home tonight and put her in our second bedroom with a litterbox, food and water. I actually had my bowling league right after and my wife hung out with Sophie who was pretty comfortable. After my wife then took a nap outside the second bedroom with Maya, she went in the second bedroom, but Sophie was under the bed (it looks like she had knocked something over and startled herself). When I got home I hung out with Maya....my wife actually had a plastic string that she was sticking under the door and playing with Maya....then went to the second bedroom. I talked to Sophie and coaxed her out from under the bed and my wife and I hung out with her for 30 minutes.
When we got out, Maya was not happy....she was hissing and raised a paw at me and hissing at the general direction of the door. I put a bunch of food, treats and some catnip by the door which got Maya there.....she ate the food, but was growling while doing it. She has been a bit standoffish from me since then, but the good news is that she did use her litterbox, so hopefully she won't mark around (she has never done this). We did play for a little while which was good, but she lost interest pretty quick and is in her bed in the living room which looks out the front window.
So, I was just seeing what people thought the next step was.....it is a really bad sign that Maya seemed kind of upset?
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As you can tell, I am new here.
My wife and I rescued our cat Maya from a city shelter in June 2006 when we lived in New York. In July/August 2008 we got married and moved to Virginia. Maya has been a great cat so far. She sleeps at night in our bed, is playful, she always does her business where it should be done and is generally really sweet to us. She is about 2 1/2 (we resued her when she was about 1)
Just today we rescued a new cat who we think we are calling Sophie. She is 10 months and seems to be a lap cat....when we visited her all she wanted to do was kneed my legs and just hang out on my lap. We brought Sophie home tonight and put her in our second bedroom with a litterbox, food and water. I actually had my bowling league right after and my wife hung out with Sophie who was pretty comfortable. After my wife then took a nap outside the second bedroom with Maya, she went in the second bedroom, but Sophie was under the bed (it looks like she had knocked something over and startled herself). When I got home I hung out with Maya....my wife actually had a plastic string that she was sticking under the door and playing with Maya....then went to the second bedroom. I talked to Sophie and coaxed her out from under the bed and my wife and I hung out with her for 30 minutes.
When we got out, Maya was not happy....she was hissing and raised a paw at me and hissing at the general direction of the door. I put a bunch of food, treats and some catnip by the door which got Maya there.....she ate the food, but was growling while doing it. She has been a bit standoffish from me since then, but the good news is that she did use her litterbox, so hopefully she won't mark around (she has never done this). We did play for a little while which was good, but she lost interest pretty quick and is in her bed in the living room which looks out the front window.
So, I was just seeing what people thought the next step was.....it is a really bad sign that Maya seemed kind of upset?
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