Hi everyone,
I did search the forums to see if I could find an answer, but can't seem to find any question like mine - sorry if I'm duplicating a question here!
My wife and I adopted a 2-3 year old girl from the local ASPCA in February, and she's the most loving, happy cat I've ever seen. But she's also EXTREMELY anxious and scared all the time. When it's just my wife and I in the house, she's usually fine, and very affectionate. But if there are any loud noises outside, including rain, she will hide. Any visitors to the house, she'll run under the bed. I know that this is just her personality, and we try to help her anxiety every way we can.
Here's my question - when we adopted her, she was in an "open" room with other cats. She seemed a little shy, but actually came and rubbed against our legs after about a minute. Basically, she won US over, not the other way around! Do you think that it might help her anxiety if we were to get another (outgoing/non-anxious) cat? Has anyone ever experienced one cat helping another cat's anxiety/scaredness?
Thanks for your time...this really is a great site!
I did search the forums to see if I could find an answer, but can't seem to find any question like mine - sorry if I'm duplicating a question here!
My wife and I adopted a 2-3 year old girl from the local ASPCA in February, and she's the most loving, happy cat I've ever seen. But she's also EXTREMELY anxious and scared all the time. When it's just my wife and I in the house, she's usually fine, and very affectionate. But if there are any loud noises outside, including rain, she will hide. Any visitors to the house, she'll run under the bed. I know that this is just her personality, and we try to help her anxiety every way we can.
Here's my question - when we adopted her, she was in an "open" room with other cats. She seemed a little shy, but actually came and rubbed against our legs after about a minute. Basically, she won US over, not the other way around! Do you think that it might help her anxiety if we were to get another (outgoing/non-anxious) cat? Has anyone ever experienced one cat helping another cat's anxiety/scaredness?
Thanks for your time...this really is a great site!