Hello,
My family consists of myself and my two cats. Miles is an orange tabby, very outgoing, quite the conversationalist and extremely affectionate. Lise is absolutely the opposite.
I adopted Lise two years ago in May. She was a foster cat of one of my former roommates for nearly a year. We knew very little about her except that she was definitely feral, she'd had at least one litter of kittens but she was found severely injured. She and Miles (then a kitten) really hit it off and are inseparable. I could not leave her behind when I moved. However, Lise has never warmed up to me. She sleeps/hides in the boxspring of my bed. She scrambles from any room that I enter. She will only come near me if she thinks I'm asleep - during the winter she will get into my bed. In two years, I've only touched Lise twice - once to move and once when she got stuck in the drapes in the living room.
Is this just the way it's going to be for the rest of our lives or am I being negligent by letting her "do her own thing?"
My family consists of myself and my two cats. Miles is an orange tabby, very outgoing, quite the conversationalist and extremely affectionate. Lise is absolutely the opposite.
I adopted Lise two years ago in May. She was a foster cat of one of my former roommates for nearly a year. We knew very little about her except that she was definitely feral, she'd had at least one litter of kittens but she was found severely injured. She and Miles (then a kitten) really hit it off and are inseparable. I could not leave her behind when I moved. However, Lise has never warmed up to me. She sleeps/hides in the boxspring of my bed. She scrambles from any room that I enter. She will only come near me if she thinks I'm asleep - during the winter she will get into my bed. In two years, I've only touched Lise twice - once to move and once when she got stuck in the drapes in the living room.
Is this just the way it's going to be for the rest of our lives or am I being negligent by letting her "do her own thing?"