Shelter cat is broken and super depressed

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Here's Cosette begging me to feed her this morning. She'll approach within a few feet but never close enough to touch.

 

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Yep, the fact that she is showing you her belly means that she is beginning, at least, to trust you. She's getting there. I'll tell you this...when a cat like that actually gives you their whole heart, and she is beginning to, it is the most remarkable feeling in the world.
 
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Cosette has learned that she's allowed to touch the furniture. Apparently she wasn't allowed to in her past life. It took her 7 months to work up the nerve to swat at the window blind. She's done it a few times since, as if to test us. This morning she stayed up for longer than usual and went around touching things.
 

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Cosette has learned that she's allowed to touch the furniture. Apparently she wasn't allowed to in her past life. It took her 7 months to work up the nerve to swat at the window blind. She's done it a few times since, as if to test us. This morning she stayed up for longer than usual and went around touching things.
AND, I'm crying. I cannot imagine a cat not being allowed to touch furniture. Why even bother having a cat? What a sad, restricted life she must have led, and how amazed she must be now. She's learning, thanks to you and your love and patience, how to be a cat, possibly for the first time in her life.

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