Long post and poor English, I'm really sorry...
Just adopted two kittens (10 wks) from my friend who rescued a pregnant mom. Basically my husband and I visited them bi-weekly since they were 10 days old, so they might already know us.
They adapted quickly when we brought them home yesterday and slept with us for the night. They are both affectionate (groom us, sleep on our lap or besides us), respond to toys very well.
What we worried about is one of them cries a lot and act differently from before. Before she used to be a "in-different cat", never slept with siblings and rarely play with them, I never heard she meows, not like been hold but won't struggle away... a very quiet cat. Today she started to play with her brother, sleep with him, which is good, but she cries A LOT! She cries when one of us went away to another room/kitchen/bathroom (door closed or opened), when she was sleeping but her brother sort of wakes her up, when she wants bedroom but no body wants to go there... It feels like she start crying especially when she is sleepy and want human's presence. But once when they both slept on the sofa besides my husband, she waked up and looked at my husband's face and whining, my husband pick her up and petted, she still whines (looked at his face) and seems want to leave so put her on the sofa besides him, then she found another position and slept on her brother again.
We get so confused with her, why does she cry? Does she feel safe only when human presents? We tried to leave the apartment for a while when they both "just wake up", but didn't hear she cries, is it possible that she only whines when she know that there's definitely someone in the house but not follow her? Why does she suddenly become a controlling role? Are all these whining thing temporarily?
We checked their litter, looks ok, she eats ok and drinks ok, very playful when she satisfies... we are going to take them to the vet next week, but before that...
We are very worried about her crying also because we live in an apartment that does not allow cats (we have a residence manager). I know someone might say that why have them in the first place, but 1. We LOVE cats and 2. My friend said kittens are going to be send to humane society (there're 3 other kittens that not adopted yet). My husband says if she whines that much when we leave for work, we are going to send her back to her mom and see if she could be adopted. But she is so sweet and attached to us we definitely want to keep her if possible!!
We are both graduate students so we have flexible schedule, but we will be both away at least two hours every weekday.
Please help us to keep her!
What does she need? and How to make her cry less when we human are away? Is her change temporary? Everything will gets better after a while?
Thank you very much for your reply! and again sorry for this long post.
Just adopted two kittens (10 wks) from my friend who rescued a pregnant mom. Basically my husband and I visited them bi-weekly since they were 10 days old, so they might already know us.
They adapted quickly when we brought them home yesterday and slept with us for the night. They are both affectionate (groom us, sleep on our lap or besides us), respond to toys very well.
What we worried about is one of them cries a lot and act differently from before. Before she used to be a "in-different cat", never slept with siblings and rarely play with them, I never heard she meows, not like been hold but won't struggle away... a very quiet cat. Today she started to play with her brother, sleep with him, which is good, but she cries A LOT! She cries when one of us went away to another room/kitchen/bathroom (door closed or opened), when she was sleeping but her brother sort of wakes her up, when she wants bedroom but no body wants to go there... It feels like she start crying especially when she is sleepy and want human's presence. But once when they both slept on the sofa besides my husband, she waked up and looked at my husband's face and whining, my husband pick her up and petted, she still whines (looked at his face) and seems want to leave so put her on the sofa besides him, then she found another position and slept on her brother again.
We get so confused with her, why does she cry? Does she feel safe only when human presents? We tried to leave the apartment for a while when they both "just wake up", but didn't hear she cries, is it possible that she only whines when she know that there's definitely someone in the house but not follow her? Why does she suddenly become a controlling role? Are all these whining thing temporarily?
We checked their litter, looks ok, she eats ok and drinks ok, very playful when she satisfies... we are going to take them to the vet next week, but before that...
We are very worried about her crying also because we live in an apartment that does not allow cats (we have a residence manager). I know someone might say that why have them in the first place, but 1. We LOVE cats and 2. My friend said kittens are going to be send to humane society (there're 3 other kittens that not adopted yet). My husband says if she whines that much when we leave for work, we are going to send her back to her mom and see if she could be adopted. But she is so sweet and attached to us we definitely want to keep her if possible!!
We are both graduate students so we have flexible schedule, but we will be both away at least two hours every weekday.
Please help us to keep her!
What does she need? and How to make her cry less when we human are away? Is her change temporary? Everything will gets better after a while?
Thank you very much for your reply! and again sorry for this long post.