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Hello! I recently adopted an 8 year old female from a cat adoption center in my town. With the adoption, we were given her entire medical history as her previous owner was super on top of her health so we know she's perfectly healthy. As to why she was let go and set up for adoption, she was being bullied by dogs in her previous home. When we adopted her they also told us that she would be okay in a home with other cats, which is what my roommate and I were looking for since we have a 1 and half year old male cat as well. Anyway, we bring her home and we set her up in my room, and she immediately runs under the bed, which isn't alarming considering that the place is completely new to her. We place her litter in one corner and her food, water bowl, and cat bed on another side of the room so she would have space to explore. However, it's been 2 weeks and she still has been hiding underneath the bed. We don't try to pull her out because we don't want to stress her out even more. We've tried to coax her out with string toys, and a laser pointer, which our younger cat goes crazy for. She shows interest for a while, comes out with extreme hesitation to play, and as soon as I move at all she'll run back under the bed. I don't know if she's still intimidated because of the smell of our younger resident cat or if it's the trauma from her previous home that's making her extremely on edge. She will only really come out at night when I'm in bed, to use the litter, eat and then bother me to play with her. Which is really annoying since it's right when I want to start shutting down haha. How can I shift her so she can come out and play during the day and feel more comfortable with doing her every day activities during the day? This is so long but for anyone who read, thank you!