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Hello all, here's the information about our new cat and hopefully we can get some help as we really need it.
Got a 2 year old cat from a rescue two weeks ago. Previously he was at the rescue for 18 months and the lady told us he took some time to get to like people and was shy.
We put him in our bedroom with no other animals around and he was very scared and hid underneath the dresser and our bed.
He didn't eat for the first 72 hours then we slept in a different room as him and he ate finally. We decided to sleep in the same room as him again and now he eats at night or when people are not around.
When people come in the room he hides under the bed/dresser and hissed occasionally. We haven't gotten close enough to pet him yet or for him to smell our hands.
The last three-ish days we have been coming into the room/waking up to seeing clothes from the hamper put into his litter box/food dish. He'll go into our hamper, drag underwear/shirt out and place them over both areas which are separated by about three feet.
What do you guys think? It's been an extremely frustrating couple weeks and he's sweet cat but we haven't seen any of that in him. He plays rarely but never gets close to us. We don't want to ever return him to the rescue but we need to start seeing some progress or figure this cat out as the stress has been incredible seeing him not happy.
Got a 2 year old cat from a rescue two weeks ago. Previously he was at the rescue for 18 months and the lady told us he took some time to get to like people and was shy.
We put him in our bedroom with no other animals around and he was very scared and hid underneath the dresser and our bed.
He didn't eat for the first 72 hours then we slept in a different room as him and he ate finally. We decided to sleep in the same room as him again and now he eats at night or when people are not around.
When people come in the room he hides under the bed/dresser and hissed occasionally. We haven't gotten close enough to pet him yet or for him to smell our hands.
The last three-ish days we have been coming into the room/waking up to seeing clothes from the hamper put into his litter box/food dish. He'll go into our hamper, drag underwear/shirt out and place them over both areas which are separated by about three feet.
What do you guys think? It's been an extremely frustrating couple weeks and he's sweet cat but we haven't seen any of that in him. He plays rarely but never gets close to us. We don't want to ever return him to the rescue but we need to start seeing some progress or figure this cat out as the stress has been incredible seeing him not happy.