Hello All,
I just wanted to see whether anyone has had similar problems with their cat, and whether there is a solution.
I have two cats, the younger one was introduced to the family to keep the other one company during the day when we are at work. The younger cat came from a breeder, it was the last one left and apparently he was a slow developer. When we brought him home, he was 3 months old and it only took 3 weeks for the two cats to be best of friends. The younger one now follows the older one around and does everything it does. They eat from the same bowl (although they have 2), they drink from the bath at the same time, and I even caught them using the litter box simultaneously once! Suffice to say they get along.
However, I am not sure the younger one is comfortable. He recently started meowing a lot and he has trust issues. He is a very affectionate cat although not very keen on strokes from us – he mostly wants them from the older cat (but he does come to us for affection every now and then) and he gets spooked very easily. He hisses when surprised by an our appearance in the room he is in, he sometimes runs away from us (looks like he doesn’t recognise us sometimes) and quite often he runs away in fear if we sit down near him.
Is there any way of making him more comfortable? We are starting to suspect he might be a little slow, as it does take time to grow his trust and it is very easily broken. For example family came to visit for 2 nights and since then we lost his trust completely, and we now have to rebuild it again.
Does anyone have any ideas?
I just wanted to see whether anyone has had similar problems with their cat, and whether there is a solution.
I have two cats, the younger one was introduced to the family to keep the other one company during the day when we are at work. The younger cat came from a breeder, it was the last one left and apparently he was a slow developer. When we brought him home, he was 3 months old and it only took 3 weeks for the two cats to be best of friends. The younger one now follows the older one around and does everything it does. They eat from the same bowl (although they have 2), they drink from the bath at the same time, and I even caught them using the litter box simultaneously once! Suffice to say they get along.
However, I am not sure the younger one is comfortable. He recently started meowing a lot and he has trust issues. He is a very affectionate cat although not very keen on strokes from us – he mostly wants them from the older cat (but he does come to us for affection every now and then) and he gets spooked very easily. He hisses when surprised by an our appearance in the room he is in, he sometimes runs away from us (looks like he doesn’t recognise us sometimes) and quite often he runs away in fear if we sit down near him.
Is there any way of making him more comfortable? We are starting to suspect he might be a little slow, as it does take time to grow his trust and it is very easily broken. For example family came to visit for 2 nights and since then we lost his trust completely, and we now have to rebuild it again.
Does anyone have any ideas?
Some cats are just naturally more skittish than others; that's just their personality.
Same with me and Holland, though she is only two years old. She will swat at me if she is not in the mood to be petted. I have gotten accustomed to reading her eyes and body language, and most of the time I know when she wants my loves and when she wants me to leave her the heck alone... 
