Hi all. My boyfriend and I currently have an adult cat, Audrey, who is about a year and a half old. We're trying to find another young cat to add to our household.
We had wanted to adopt through the rescue group we volunteer with, but most of the cats they have available right now are younger than we'd been hoping. Most are around three or four months, so it's hard to get a handle on their personality.
Anyway, we went to meet a 14 week old kitten yesterday. She was absolutely adorable, as are all kittens. Very sweet. Unusually mellow for a kitten, but also happy to play. Big cuddler too, according to her foster mom.
The problem was, she was very shy around us, which I've never seen from a kitten that age before. After we'd been there for about twenty minutes she was willing to come play with us and sit near us. The rescue group swears up and down that she grows accustomed to people quickly and comes out of her shell, but it seems like a warning sign to me.
What do you think? We don't want to adopt a cat who's only going to grow more standoffish as she ages.
We had wanted to adopt through the rescue group we volunteer with, but most of the cats they have available right now are younger than we'd been hoping. Most are around three or four months, so it's hard to get a handle on their personality.
Anyway, we went to meet a 14 week old kitten yesterday. She was absolutely adorable, as are all kittens. Very sweet. Unusually mellow for a kitten, but also happy to play. Big cuddler too, according to her foster mom.
The problem was, she was very shy around us, which I've never seen from a kitten that age before. After we'd been there for about twenty minutes she was willing to come play with us and sit near us. The rescue group swears up and down that she grows accustomed to people quickly and comes out of her shell, but it seems like a warning sign to me.
What do you think? We don't want to adopt a cat who's only going to grow more standoffish as she ages.