Well... there is progress. She began greeting at the door, so I leave open now most of the time. She plays like a fiend. She still reverts to staying at the bottom of the cat tree most of the time. As friendly and sweet as she seems, greeting, talking, playing, her new found freedom and...
She could definitely use a puzzle feeder. As far as the other toys, feather wands, soft mice, balls (silent and noisy) we even have ones that make natural animal sound. And I bought fresh cat nip thinking ours was getting a little less stinky.
I'm going to try a dog training trick and store...
What are the next steps? I'm partly ranting, because the shelter gave me 30 days. I'm ten days in and she's come along pretty well. Yes, some regression, she won't let us pet her and is not so interested in playing with toys. She isn't hiding in a hole even though she has one available.
We got...
Yeah, she's not that interested in petting today. We did some play and I got her to look up with the toy, at which point you could see the discovery in her eyes, her posture, the sniffing... she discovered that there are cool things up that cat tree, she didn't venture, but she REALLY thought...
She let us sit with her and pet her outside of her hiding place. Very little hiding today. Solstice is the one on the bottom of the tree. She moved there after Avielle was done playing on it. (We've only brought Avielle in for a few playtimes and a supervised cat nap lol)
Update...Although Solstice is still generally hiding, we blocked off all but one hiding spot in her room and so we have her positioned to watch us interacting with our other kitty for play time. I'd like to get her up off the floor so we got her a tree by the window, we'll see how that goes in...
So, while I didn't want to disturb her at breakfast I should have looked to make sure she was there. Big mistake on my part. She's in the kitchen, I'm not sure how long she's been there and I can't tell if she ate from my cats bowl out there. So I offered the chicken anyway off the start she...
No, she didn't eat yet, but it's been roughly 40hrs since she ate and since she came out last night I thought I'd give her one more shot at breakfast. I left it with her an hour ago. I'll be making chicken in an hour or so. At 3 I'm going to the food store (going to town around here is a hike)...
They look fantastic.
We have a non-feral cat we adopted years ago, at 8mos old. Shes friendly and loving, we pick her up and squish her, she lays next to us, sleeps with us sometimes, she just doesn't want to be a lap cat. We love her anyway and wouldn't trade her for the world. So even if they...