Hello, please excuse my English, I'm from Madrid, Spin and it's pretty rusty.
All my life I've wanted a cat, and last month a friend of my mother offered us a kitten, from a friend of hers, it was going to be a black cat.
It arrived today, it bas... black and grey and as soon as my mother opened, that box you use to transport animals with, it scratched her and went behind the washing machine.
It didn't move in a couple of hours but when the cleaner arived, even if we told her to leave the cat alone she went chasing it, the poor thing was terrified and went running to my bedroom, it's in the bookshelf next to my bedside table.
Now we've found out that that woman took it from a house in the Escorial (mountain village) that has been abandoned for three years and that the cat is feral. To be honest it's been a setback, this is my first cat and gone directly on hardcore, that doesn't mean that I'm not going to try but I'm scared of doing more harm than help.
I've tried to grab it but it's start's spiting as soon as I'm near the shelf, you can only access it from the front, so I've taken slowly the boxes from that shelv so it had some room in it, I've left food, water, the basket where he was suposed to sleep in and the litter box in front and went with my laptop to another room, I think it has moved a little because I can see paw marks on the sand.
You can't see much but I didn't dare to use a flash or star pointing light's at it
What should I do? Is it okay to sleep so close to it?
Do you like Gibbs as a name?... we don't even know if it's a he or a she...
Thanks for your time
All my life I've wanted a cat, and last month a friend of my mother offered us a kitten, from a friend of hers, it was going to be a black cat.
It arrived today, it bas... black and grey and as soon as my mother opened, that box you use to transport animals with, it scratched her and went behind the washing machine.
It didn't move in a couple of hours but when the cleaner arived, even if we told her to leave the cat alone she went chasing it, the poor thing was terrified and went running to my bedroom, it's in the bookshelf next to my bedside table.
Now we've found out that that woman took it from a house in the Escorial (mountain village) that has been abandoned for three years and that the cat is feral. To be honest it's been a setback, this is my first cat and gone directly on hardcore, that doesn't mean that I'm not going to try but I'm scared of doing more harm than help.
I've tried to grab it but it's start's spiting as soon as I'm near the shelf, you can only access it from the front, so I've taken slowly the boxes from that shelv so it had some room in it, I've left food, water, the basket where he was suposed to sleep in and the litter box in front and went with my laptop to another room, I think it has moved a little because I can see paw marks on the sand.
You can't see much but I didn't dare to use a flash or star pointing light's at it
What should I do? Is it okay to sleep so close to it?
Do you like Gibbs as a name?... we don't even know if it's a he or a she...
Thanks for your time