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Hi everyone,
I'm sorry to be a little selfish... But I'm a new member, that really needs help with our cat.
A little back story about our cat is she is a rescue cat around 3 years old and we have had her 3 weeks. She is very affectionate, and always purrs plus nuzzles her nose/mouth around your hand everytime you stroke her. She also rolls over, and shows shows her belly to you, and she never has hissed or attacked any of us for any reason (even when we had to hold her to see whether she had a injury on her left paw). We always show her affection everyday and make sure that she is fed twice a day.
The problem is that... She won't leave her little cat house! We have opened the roof as it's summer and it probably gets hot as it is indoors in our extension. We have install the pheromone device, but she is still so aloof. I put a pet cam in the room and we discovered she walks with a limp on her leg paw, but when we took her to the vets, they said there was nothing wrong with her.
We really would like to know if its a confidence issue, or if there is anything we can do? Or is it the fact she is in pain and we need to get her xrayed?
We really are so worried about her.. There is only 3 of us in the house, with no kids or loud noises and we make a special effort to be quiet around her to no effect.
We find this especially hard as our last cat that died sadly on the road around 5 weeks ago, was so confident and slept on my fathers lap on the first night! After that she had no problems with socialising and up until her departure, she dominated not just our house... But the neighbourhood too!
Please can someone help us? We have run out of ideas at the moment.
Many thanks,
Peter scales.
I'm sorry to be a little selfish... But I'm a new member, that really needs help with our cat.
A little back story about our cat is she is a rescue cat around 3 years old and we have had her 3 weeks. She is very affectionate, and always purrs plus nuzzles her nose/mouth around your hand everytime you stroke her. She also rolls over, and shows shows her belly to you, and she never has hissed or attacked any of us for any reason (even when we had to hold her to see whether she had a injury on her left paw). We always show her affection everyday and make sure that she is fed twice a day.
The problem is that... She won't leave her little cat house! We have opened the roof as it's summer and it probably gets hot as it is indoors in our extension. We have install the pheromone device, but she is still so aloof. I put a pet cam in the room and we discovered she walks with a limp on her leg paw, but when we took her to the vets, they said there was nothing wrong with her.
We really would like to know if its a confidence issue, or if there is anything we can do? Or is it the fact she is in pain and we need to get her xrayed?
We really are so worried about her.. There is only 3 of us in the house, with no kids or loud noises and we make a special effort to be quiet around her to no effect.
We find this especially hard as our last cat that died sadly on the road around 5 weeks ago, was so confident and slept on my fathers lap on the first night! After that she had no problems with socialising and up until her departure, she dominated not just our house... But the neighbourhood too!
Please can someone help us? We have run out of ideas at the moment.
Many thanks,
Peter scales.