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Hello everyone,
If you look at my previous thread you can get the back story. To cut it short:
I picked up 3 month old kitten from the street as here in Thailand they get run over on daily basis. Got it to vet done everything.
First 3 days it was hissing at me, I got it a safe room and using positive rewards turn it around and it became amazingly loving kitty. Even though I once stepped on it's paw at night and it was scared of me like hell, it became normal again after just a day.
Here is where the problem:
Since it was a street can it often tried to run away, we have a cleaner lady who comes in and often not closes back door. We did tell her to find the cat first and put it in the safe room before starting cleaning. Once she came and couldn;t find it so she assumed we took it somewhere. When I came back the cat was nowhere to be found, me and my daughter went looking for it and after 3 hours we could not find it.
We were sad, the next day a lady come over to my house and said she saw it sitting 300 meters down the road under someones stairs.
When we got there the cat was scared S....less literally pooped itself. the eye looked swollen a local lady told me that the night before some drunk guy tired to take it and when it scratched him the guy kicked and punched the cat two times.
I tried to find the person but to no success, herer I had two options wait and hope it would come out or get it myself (as main road is literally few meters away where it would get hit instantly) , after I tried to take it it was hissing but I managed to get it and got bitten and scratched badly.
Having taken it back into the safe room, she was hiding, not eating (only at night when nobody is around). It would not come out. Every-time I approach the car it would either try to run away or look really scared putting its ears behind.
There is some progress 4 days later now, if I go into the room it would still be scared of me try to hide if I make sudden move, but it would come sometimes after eating to let me pet it and pur, then if I move my hand wrong it might run away.
Days it is just sleeping, not playing. If I let her out of safe room she would hide all the time.
So we have gone from happy (cautious at time ) cat who was playful and gentle to this state now. I' am heartbroken, is this the end of the line? Will it be like this forever? I tried everything already to no success. I miss it a lot.
If you look at my previous thread you can get the back story. To cut it short:
I picked up 3 month old kitten from the street as here in Thailand they get run over on daily basis. Got it to vet done everything.
First 3 days it was hissing at me, I got it a safe room and using positive rewards turn it around and it became amazingly loving kitty. Even though I once stepped on it's paw at night and it was scared of me like hell, it became normal again after just a day.
Here is where the problem:
Since it was a street can it often tried to run away, we have a cleaner lady who comes in and often not closes back door. We did tell her to find the cat first and put it in the safe room before starting cleaning. Once she came and couldn;t find it so she assumed we took it somewhere. When I came back the cat was nowhere to be found, me and my daughter went looking for it and after 3 hours we could not find it.
We were sad, the next day a lady come over to my house and said she saw it sitting 300 meters down the road under someones stairs.
When we got there the cat was scared S....less literally pooped itself. the eye looked swollen a local lady told me that the night before some drunk guy tired to take it and when it scratched him the guy kicked and punched the cat two times.
I tried to find the person but to no success, herer I had two options wait and hope it would come out or get it myself (as main road is literally few meters away where it would get hit instantly) , after I tried to take it it was hissing but I managed to get it and got bitten and scratched badly.
Having taken it back into the safe room, she was hiding, not eating (only at night when nobody is around). It would not come out. Every-time I approach the car it would either try to run away or look really scared putting its ears behind.
There is some progress 4 days later now, if I go into the room it would still be scared of me try to hide if I make sudden move, but it would come sometimes after eating to let me pet it and pur, then if I move my hand wrong it might run away.
Days it is just sleeping, not playing. If I let her out of safe room she would hide all the time.
So we have gone from happy (cautious at time ) cat who was playful and gentle to this state now. I' am heartbroken, is this the end of the line? Will it be like this forever? I tried everything already to no success. I miss it a lot.