Baby's getting fixed this weekend....
For those who wondered - Baby came / was trapped and taken in by me, on Dec. 31 as a wild feral kitten. Terrified, hissy etc. For 5 days she lived in
a dog crate, hiding. On day 5 she out and escaped to the house.
I eventually herded her into the "kitten room" a lovely large, and sunny room with windows where all my fosters have stayed while I tried to tame /and or get them into a rescue...
So fast forward - 33 days in feb. 1 - Baby began to let me pet her while she ate, and purred alot. She would always with draw afterwards... but yesterday, she allowed me to put her on my lap and pet her!!
And began sniffing my hand, rather than running from it...
Now she roams the house and watches me play with Frogie and Grey Goose... and is jealous of the attention they get... I think!!
She often is out, watching me in the bathroom at the door, or on the stairway where she can hang out and see what I and ze other cats are doing...
She is IMHO on the way to being tame. She may never be a lap cat (I don't think that's her purrsonality type, she likes to be out and about though and involved, and likes to get pets now and then...) but she will be affectionate lovey and nice one day I think.
She is off after her spay neuter to one week taming camp. I will hope it doesn't traumatize her, and will be taking her home in a week from the tamer lady. I do hope she tames further under that regime of cage taming and petting....
I almost wish I wouldn't do it, but I know that its for the best. She needs to go now to a foster home with kittens, to learn from them how to BE affectionate. My cats have not got the proper lovely loving people orientation, she needs to learn. A fear less cat will teach her best how to act...
She may never show well in a cage though, and so I think she will come home to me at the end of the week and become more loving than ever...
And I hope to let her go directly from my home to her new adoptive owners... when I find a way to place her.
Seems everyone who wants her lives in NY or NH or something. I can't seem to find a single VA owner who might want a nice Part Coon cat.
Though I have to say, I am astounded at how the Coon lovers love her style and "looks". She is a very fetching kitty with the typical coon ruff and ear furnishing, the looong whiskers and the round eyes and the neat muzzle. And of course a high degree of curiousity and interest. Those paws go everywhere!!
Please send me vibes to trap her (as I will never get her in a carry to take to the clinic) and vibes that she tames further at the tamer lady's house. I want so badly for this little girl to get the chance to blossom. I don't want to set her back. I see that she has come SO far indeed, and has so far to go, but I think she's got the personality to make it happen!!
For those who wondered - Baby came / was trapped and taken in by me, on Dec. 31 as a wild feral kitten. Terrified, hissy etc. For 5 days she lived in
a dog crate, hiding. On day 5 she out and escaped to the house.
I eventually herded her into the "kitten room" a lovely large, and sunny room with windows where all my fosters have stayed while I tried to tame /and or get them into a rescue...
So fast forward - 33 days in feb. 1 - Baby began to let me pet her while she ate, and purred alot. She would always with draw afterwards... but yesterday, she allowed me to put her on my lap and pet her!!
And began sniffing my hand, rather than running from it...
Now she roams the house and watches me play with Frogie and Grey Goose... and is jealous of the attention they get... I think!!
She often is out, watching me in the bathroom at the door, or on the stairway where she can hang out and see what I and ze other cats are doing...
She is IMHO on the way to being tame. She may never be a lap cat (I don't think that's her purrsonality type, she likes to be out and about though and involved, and likes to get pets now and then...) but she will be affectionate lovey and nice one day I think.
She is off after her spay neuter to one week taming camp. I will hope it doesn't traumatize her, and will be taking her home in a week from the tamer lady. I do hope she tames further under that regime of cage taming and petting....
I almost wish I wouldn't do it, but I know that its for the best. She needs to go now to a foster home with kittens, to learn from them how to BE affectionate. My cats have not got the proper lovely loving people orientation, she needs to learn. A fear less cat will teach her best how to act...
She may never show well in a cage though, and so I think she will come home to me at the end of the week and become more loving than ever...
And I hope to let her go directly from my home to her new adoptive owners... when I find a way to place her.
Seems everyone who wants her lives in NY or NH or something. I can't seem to find a single VA owner who might want a nice Part Coon cat.
Though I have to say, I am astounded at how the Coon lovers love her style and "looks". She is a very fetching kitty with the typical coon ruff and ear furnishing, the looong whiskers and the round eyes and the neat muzzle. And of course a high degree of curiousity and interest. Those paws go everywhere!!
Please send me vibes to trap her (as I will never get her in a carry to take to the clinic) and vibes that she tames further at the tamer lady's house. I want so badly for this little girl to get the chance to blossom. I don't want to set her back. I see that she has come SO far indeed, and has so far to go, but I think she's got the personality to make it happen!!
