Poor Scared Joey

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Poor Joey, he's been inside at night for a month now but we just put the furnace on and it came on early this morning and really frightened him..  He was so scared.  He kept trying to get close to Bitty who did not appreciate that at all.  He'd come to me and let me pet him but then he'd leave to roam the house, crying.  He's usually very quiet.  AT one point I thought he was going to be sick and I wondered if he'd urinate or defecate in fright.   Poor guy,  he was afraid of the TV and the fridge door opening when he first came in.  

He did eat a bit of breakfast, then went outside, then he came running back inside,now he's out again.  It is encouraging that he ate and that he came back inside.  The furnace was on when he came back inside and he had to walk very close to a hot air vent so I guess when the furnace is on constantly he will come back in, I hope.  Poor guy.  If he is not used to these common household things then how did he get to be so friendly?
 
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Poor Joey, he's been inside at night for a month now but we just put the furnace on and it came on early this morning and really frightened him..  He was so scared.  He kept trying to get close to Bitty who did not appreciate that at all.  He'd come to me and let me pet him but then he'd leave to roam the house, crying.  He's usually very quiet.  AT one point I thought he was going to be sick and I wondered if he'd urinate or defecate in fright.   Poor guy,  he was afraid of the TV and the fridge door opening when he first came in.  

He did eat a bit of breakfast, then went outside, then he came running back inside,now he's out again.  It is encouraging that he ate and that he came back inside.  The furnace was on when he came back inside and he had to walk very close to a hot air vent so I guess when the furnace is on constantly he will come back in, I hope.  Poor guy.  If he is not used to these common household things then how did he get to be so friendly?
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I wonder if he was mostly an outside cat who didn't spend much time inside.  Or is it possible it has been a long time since he was inside a house and forgot about the sounds. 

When I brought Marvin inside, he was also very scared of every single sound.  Yet with time, he got used to everything.  It was always hard with the change of the seasons.  He would get used to the snow blower sounds, then it was on to lawn mowing season.  Also the difference in furnace and AC. 

Marvin was petrified of the ceiling fans.  He would walk into a room and get low to the ground, hiss and then run.  It took a long while for him to get used to them.

Soon he will adjust and there will be a new sound that frightens him!
 
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Yes, Joey could have been a barn cat.  There is a hillbilly, messy, junky farm with children nearby and every spring they have a bunch of kittens and lots of black ones.  I have wondered if Joey made it to us from there.  I have seen the kids out playing with the kittens.

Poor Joe got us back with fright yesterday.  We were away all day, not getting home till 9:00 pm which is the latest Joe has every stayed out at night, since he began coming in.  No Joe.  We wondered if his fright in the morning followed by our being gone all day caused him to hide away.  Thankfully he showed up at 10:00 pm.

Then this morning, more things to scare Joe, we had the septic tank pumped out.  We got him inside before the man came but Joe was just about as worried as he was about the furnace.  He seems to have recovered from both his frights.
 
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