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OK here she is. Don’t let her looks fool you - she’s got me totally intimidated.
Haha, I now totally understand what you said in a previous post...OK here she is. Don’t let her looks fool you - she’s got me totally intimidated.
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Thanks for the pic! She is a beauty and appears to be very alert by the expression in her eyes. Fingers crossed for your vet appointment on Monday. Please let us know how it goes.OK here she is. Don’t let her looks fool you - she’s got me totally intimidated.
I know how that goes. Not personally, but I've had two family members who got cat bites and requires hospitalization.Yeah I have to lighten up as she no doubt feels my anxiety (and frustration frankly) about getting her to the vet. The worst that can happen is I scruff her and she wins. That said both my parents got cat bites and they both ended up in the ER one with an overnight stay. I was a lot better off before I knew what happens when they bite.
I think that's a good sign, by far.I can’t figure out how she’s bucketing her thoughts about being scared. Like she finally got hungry enough that she came out to eat next to me and let me pet her. It’s not tentative petting either, I get full elevator butt, scratch her back and she’ll push into my hand with her head. But if the hand is up too high - game over.
Oh yeah, I've heard of this before.Hands coming down from above is an issue for a lot of cats...it lessens with trust for a particular person, generally. When reaching to pat any cat I do not know well, I lower my arm down to their level, and come in at face height. That seems to help. I now have three ferals that I can safely pat.
As with everything with cats, keep at it. Repetition is the key to cats. That pretty much applies to everything about them.She’s onto me. Now won’t go eat in carrier to eat if I’m sitting next to it. Grrrrrrrrr.
Yeah, most are about how to properly train your cat to getting used to a carrier. Like my favorite one, below. But few actually demonstrate how to do it for the first time, when you absolutely have to do it.It’s kind of amazing how few actual videos there are of people getting difficult cats into carriers. The demonstration videos are all with chillin‘ cats.