Our youngest cat is called Alfie,
He's a British Shorthair and he's absolutely Terrified of people, when me and my partner got him as a kitten, the lady told us she just wanted to get rid of him, told us he was 8 weeks old and that he is small because he is the runt of the litter, when we got this tiny kitten home it was quite quickly apparent that he was not 8 weeks old probably only 4 weeks at best, his eyes look like they had only just opened he couldn't lap out of a bowl he was still suckling and he was constantly looking for his mum, we tried getting back in touch with the lady but she wasn't interested,
He spent the first few weeks of his life in a beer box completely surrounded by my pink dressing gown, we fed him special cat milk from the vets through a syringe, wiping his little bum with wet wipes to get him to go to the toilet, i spent 4-5 weeks of my life being his Mother 24/7 (Google is a saint for when I was lost or stuck)
I didn't want to let him down as it wasn't his fault he was given away so early,
But now I know that I should have maybe tried socializing him with other people in this time,
He's now a healthy happy 3 year old trouble maker but a part from me, my husband and our other Cat Jinx he's terrified of everyone else, is there any way I can maybe get him comfortable when other people are round, we've tried the plug ins but they don't seem to help him
Here's a picture of him of him below
(You'll notice he still sleeps on the pink dressing gown he used to sleep on as a kitten, thankfully he's got out the habit of suckling it, which he used to do to anything furry)
He's a British Shorthair and he's absolutely Terrified of people, when me and my partner got him as a kitten, the lady told us she just wanted to get rid of him, told us he was 8 weeks old and that he is small because he is the runt of the litter, when we got this tiny kitten home it was quite quickly apparent that he was not 8 weeks old probably only 4 weeks at best, his eyes look like they had only just opened he couldn't lap out of a bowl he was still suckling and he was constantly looking for his mum, we tried getting back in touch with the lady but she wasn't interested,
He spent the first few weeks of his life in a beer box completely surrounded by my pink dressing gown, we fed him special cat milk from the vets through a syringe, wiping his little bum with wet wipes to get him to go to the toilet, i spent 4-5 weeks of my life being his Mother 24/7 (Google is a saint for when I was lost or stuck)
I didn't want to let him down as it wasn't his fault he was given away so early,
But now I know that I should have maybe tried socializing him with other people in this time,
He's now a healthy happy 3 year old trouble maker but a part from me, my husband and our other Cat Jinx he's terrified of everyone else, is there any way I can maybe get him comfortable when other people are round, we've tried the plug ins but they don't seem to help him
Here's a picture of him of him below
(You'll notice he still sleeps on the pink dressing gown he used to sleep on as a kitten, thankfully he's got out the habit of suckling it, which he used to do to anything furry)