Thank you so much for taking the time to reply to me. I do give her treats (she loves those) and canned tuna along with her dry food. I just recently learned about the eye contact, so I try very hard to look at her throat or paws when I am talking to her. I haven't heard of Feliway or Composure...
To give some backstory .... I had a starving Momma cat with two kittens come into my backyard about 4 years ago and make it their home. Momma went from wanting to lunge and kill me, to a fat happy little girl. I bought them igloos (heated pads in the winter) and trapped them and had them all...