I am stumped. I have had many cats and almost two weeks ago I adopted a 2 year old female from a no-kill sanctuary. This is a two week trial adoption.
I spent a month going there and visiting with the cats in order to be as sure as I could that a new cat would be the right fit for my family.
I chose Sissy ( I was going to rename her) because she was just delightful. The cats live in great big open rooms with other cats and I was able to just spend the days going from room to room getting to know these cats.
There were 3 I loved and I chose her because she seemed calm, friendly and confident. Not to mention she has a funny , funny personality. I thought she would, after getting used to us, fit in well. She is also a 'cats cat' just like my two boys.
I got her home and she hid under the bed for days. This was not surprising because she had been in her room at the shelter since she was 6 weeks old. She also missed the company of other cats.
Things got worse and not better. I broke my rules as far as introducing acts so so. I got two puppy gates and stacked them. She was much better being able to play with my cats through the gates.
She began to solicit pets and occupy the center of the room. I even found she is quite a talker.
I realized that she was not a huge lap cat when I adopted her and that is fine. I have two lap cats. When I took her home the vet, who is the founder of the sanctuary gave me a tube of terramycin. Her right eye was red and she was squinting. I had assumed that she had allergies or FHV so was surprised the vet thought she needed treatment. After 4 days under the bed I was able to start treating her eye. By that time whatever is wrong with the eye has spread to the left eye too.
The medication isn't working so the vet wanted me to bring her in today.
I went into her room and she was on top of the short cat tree. I intended to reach my left hand up , scruff her and use my right arm to support her body and drop her into the crate.
I didn't even touch her when she flipped out, sunk her teeth into me and quickly gave me about 11 good lacerations.That has scared me death.I could understand if I had been holding her while she struggled and stupidly didn't let her go but, I wasn't holding her at all.
Now, I still have to get her into a carrier and to the vet.I also need to go the hospital .
Anyone have any suggestions as to how in the world I can get her in that crate.
By the way, I have had the crate open in her room since she came here . It has a comfy bumper in it etc. She will not go anywhere near it.
I have to say I wonder, in the two years she has been there how often could she have been handled to react like this. She had done plenty of hissing, spitting and growling since coming here but it had been getting better.
The place I got her from has a rule that no one is allowed to pick up the cats. I should have tried but given how delightful she was there it never occurred to me this would be the situation.
My Remy who died in Feb. was a feral who had spent 3 years in a rescue before I adopted him. He resisted the crate but never, ever bit me.
HELP!
I spent a month going there and visiting with the cats in order to be as sure as I could that a new cat would be the right fit for my family.
I chose Sissy ( I was going to rename her) because she was just delightful. The cats live in great big open rooms with other cats and I was able to just spend the days going from room to room getting to know these cats.
There were 3 I loved and I chose her because she seemed calm, friendly and confident. Not to mention she has a funny , funny personality. I thought she would, after getting used to us, fit in well. She is also a 'cats cat' just like my two boys.
I got her home and she hid under the bed for days. This was not surprising because she had been in her room at the shelter since she was 6 weeks old. She also missed the company of other cats.
Things got worse and not better. I broke my rules as far as introducing acts so so. I got two puppy gates and stacked them. She was much better being able to play with my cats through the gates.
She began to solicit pets and occupy the center of the room. I even found she is quite a talker.
I realized that she was not a huge lap cat when I adopted her and that is fine. I have two lap cats. When I took her home the vet, who is the founder of the sanctuary gave me a tube of terramycin. Her right eye was red and she was squinting. I had assumed that she had allergies or FHV so was surprised the vet thought she needed treatment. After 4 days under the bed I was able to start treating her eye. By that time whatever is wrong with the eye has spread to the left eye too.
The medication isn't working so the vet wanted me to bring her in today.
I went into her room and she was on top of the short cat tree. I intended to reach my left hand up , scruff her and use my right arm to support her body and drop her into the crate.
I didn't even touch her when she flipped out, sunk her teeth into me and quickly gave me about 11 good lacerations.That has scared me death.I could understand if I had been holding her while she struggled and stupidly didn't let her go but, I wasn't holding her at all.
Now, I still have to get her into a carrier and to the vet.I also need to go the hospital .
Anyone have any suggestions as to how in the world I can get her in that crate.
By the way, I have had the crate open in her room since she came here . It has a comfy bumper in it etc. She will not go anywhere near it.
I have to say I wonder, in the two years she has been there how often could she have been handled to react like this. She had done plenty of hissing, spitting and growling since coming here but it had been getting better.
The place I got her from has a rule that no one is allowed to pick up the cats. I should have tried but given how delightful she was there it never occurred to me this would be the situation.
My Remy who died in Feb. was a feral who had spent 3 years in a rescue before I adopted him. He resisted the crate but never, ever bit me.
HELP!
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