Im a field technician for a MSO, so I find myself in people's houses from time to time, working on their computer/internet or such..
anywho, a few months back I was in a house on the "wrong side of town", there was kitten ... as I was just typing that, there was a splash and lots of noise from the bathroom, he fell in the toilet
.. anyway, there was a kitten there who was not much more than hair and bones. several times during the course of working on the customer's computer I saw them shove the kitten hard with a foot as it got in their way, swear at it.. etc etc.. I offered them $20 for the cat and they were more than willing to part with it.
I took goofball (his name now for various hilarious reasons) home, I had no intention of keeping him, my plan was to take him to adopt-a-pet so he could get a better home than the hellhole he was living in before.
Apparently that was not to be, not my choice, his.. as soon as I walked in the front door with him and sat him down, he was immediately at home, he took a quick lap around the place, apparently it met his approval, then he plopped down on the couch and looked at me like "now what?"
well that was a few months ago and things have gone .. surprisingly smooth, he almost instantly recovered from his apparently malnourishment and has grown, actually, he is HUGE. He has never used the bathroom anywhere but in his litter box, not even once, which impresses me.
He never fails to amuse, (instance being he dove in the toilet while I was typing this), he also has a ninja like ability to remove all of my socks from the hamper, and pile them around me while I sleep, leaving me to awake confused and smelling of foot.
My concern however is that he doesent like being petted, if you try to scratch his back or pet him he will move away, not in a panicked way or anything, but as though he doesent care for it.. He also will not come very near when called.. if I call him he will come and sit perhaps 10 feet away, that's it, if I put him in my lap or near me he will move away, and then settle down... I can pick him up and carry him around and that does not both him, if anything he like it, which seems odd as it sharply contrasts his dislike for being petted. I dont understand what (if anything) could have caused this.
Another issue is, he like to play, but he plays ROUGH, I.E. he will break this skin with teeth or claws, this happens pretty much everyday, I can be watching TV and out of nowhere he decides one of my feet or hands deserves to be mauled, and pounces. He is defiantly playing, but he doesent seem to know how to "play bite" (if you could call it that). Otherwise he is VERY VERY well behaved, if I say "NO" or "STOP" he will IMMEDIATELY comply, so on the whole his behavior has been pretty exceptional, aside from not liking to be petted and being too rough in play.
Im just curious as to what can be done to lessen the veracity of his play, and if possible, regain the trust that at some point was apparently lost, so that he may be petted again.
sorry for the long winded post, any help is greatly appreciated.
anywho, a few months back I was in a house on the "wrong side of town", there was kitten ... as I was just typing that, there was a splash and lots of noise from the bathroom, he fell in the toilet
I took goofball (his name now for various hilarious reasons) home, I had no intention of keeping him, my plan was to take him to adopt-a-pet so he could get a better home than the hellhole he was living in before.
Apparently that was not to be, not my choice, his.. as soon as I walked in the front door with him and sat him down, he was immediately at home, he took a quick lap around the place, apparently it met his approval, then he plopped down on the couch and looked at me like "now what?"
well that was a few months ago and things have gone .. surprisingly smooth, he almost instantly recovered from his apparently malnourishment and has grown, actually, he is HUGE. He has never used the bathroom anywhere but in his litter box, not even once, which impresses me.
He never fails to amuse, (instance being he dove in the toilet while I was typing this), he also has a ninja like ability to remove all of my socks from the hamper, and pile them around me while I sleep, leaving me to awake confused and smelling of foot.
My concern however is that he doesent like being petted, if you try to scratch his back or pet him he will move away, not in a panicked way or anything, but as though he doesent care for it.. He also will not come very near when called.. if I call him he will come and sit perhaps 10 feet away, that's it, if I put him in my lap or near me he will move away, and then settle down... I can pick him up and carry him around and that does not both him, if anything he like it, which seems odd as it sharply contrasts his dislike for being petted. I dont understand what (if anything) could have caused this.
Another issue is, he like to play, but he plays ROUGH, I.E. he will break this skin with teeth or claws, this happens pretty much everyday, I can be watching TV and out of nowhere he decides one of my feet or hands deserves to be mauled, and pounces. He is defiantly playing, but he doesent seem to know how to "play bite" (if you could call it that). Otherwise he is VERY VERY well behaved, if I say "NO" or "STOP" he will IMMEDIATELY comply, so on the whole his behavior has been pretty exceptional, aside from not liking to be petted and being too rough in play.
Im just curious as to what can be done to lessen the veracity of his play, and if possible, regain the trust that at some point was apparently lost, so that he may be petted again.
sorry for the long winded post, any help is greatly appreciated.