My husband and I just adopted a beautiful female orange tabby kitten (only 5% are female) and named her Vanilla. She was 11 weeks old when we got her. She was the sweetest, most loving kitten when we adopted her. She got along with the other two cats perfectly after the initial introductions. But we've had her now for a few weeks, and some problems have arisen...
We came home one evening to find her sleeping in her litter box. Of course, we laughed. However, the only part that we didn't find funny is that she was COVERED in poop! Since we've successfully given our other two kitties baths before when things like this have happened, we had no problem doing it once more. Well, she seemed pretty calm throughout the whole process. We dried her off, mostly with towels of course, but when I turned the hair dryer on low and gently blew her fur just for a second, she FREAKED. I figured that was to be expected since not all cats like the hair dryer. We we picked her up and put her on the bed to finished drying her and she peed EVERYWHERE. She had this look of absolute terror on her face. Her ears were back and her body was limp. So we picked her up, cleaned her off as best we could and just let her go be by herself.
The next few days, she wouldn't eat, she hid constantly, and wasn't affectionate at all. Finally she started coming around a LITTLE. She'd let us hold her occasionally, but you could tell she didn't want to be held, even though she didn't fight back. Her whole body would just go limp. Well last night, she missed her litter box and peed on a plastic bag and it got all over her. Because there was so much of it, we had to use water again. No bath, just a good rinse off. As my husband dried her off though, she pooped all over the towel. Fortunately it didn't get on her or us, so it was fine. Anyway, she ran and hid AGAIN. She purred a bit later last night, but nothing like usual. This morning my husband picked her up and she peed all over him, just from him picking her up and trying to give her some love!
Bottom line... she's scared to death of us now! I'm not sure what to do! Every time we go near her, she cowers and her ears go back and her body goes limp. I've called my vet and they have no answers other than that she's spooked. I don't know what to do. My husband just lost his kitten to an accident and this was his new baby girl. Now we don't know what to do with her. Help please!!!
P.S. Sorry about the long post, I wanted to give as many details as possible so I could get as much help as possible!
We came home one evening to find her sleeping in her litter box. Of course, we laughed. However, the only part that we didn't find funny is that she was COVERED in poop! Since we've successfully given our other two kitties baths before when things like this have happened, we had no problem doing it once more. Well, she seemed pretty calm throughout the whole process. We dried her off, mostly with towels of course, but when I turned the hair dryer on low and gently blew her fur just for a second, she FREAKED. I figured that was to be expected since not all cats like the hair dryer. We we picked her up and put her on the bed to finished drying her and she peed EVERYWHERE. She had this look of absolute terror on her face. Her ears were back and her body was limp. So we picked her up, cleaned her off as best we could and just let her go be by herself.
The next few days, she wouldn't eat, she hid constantly, and wasn't affectionate at all. Finally she started coming around a LITTLE. She'd let us hold her occasionally, but you could tell she didn't want to be held, even though she didn't fight back. Her whole body would just go limp. Well last night, she missed her litter box and peed on a plastic bag and it got all over her. Because there was so much of it, we had to use water again. No bath, just a good rinse off. As my husband dried her off though, she pooped all over the towel. Fortunately it didn't get on her or us, so it was fine. Anyway, she ran and hid AGAIN. She purred a bit later last night, but nothing like usual. This morning my husband picked her up and she peed all over him, just from him picking her up and trying to give her some love!
Bottom line... she's scared to death of us now! I'm not sure what to do! Every time we go near her, she cowers and her ears go back and her body goes limp. I've called my vet and they have no answers other than that she's spooked. I don't know what to do. My husband just lost his kitten to an accident and this was his new baby girl. Now we don't know what to do with her. Help please!!!
P.S. Sorry about the long post, I wanted to give as many details as possible so I could get as much help as possible!
