We adopted a kitten yesterday. She is very scared, she was a "stray" the shelter she was there for 4 months, she was in a high kill shelter before this one she was in like a closet side room sometimes with cats.... She was visited by someone to care for the cats, but she was always very frightened.
The shelter was maintained well but but noisy they had every kind of animals, dogs, cats, birds, rabbits, pigs & horses, all the noises seemed to scare her. IT was a bad environment for a scaredy cat... For the last two days she has been closed off in my room by herself. My cats and I have been camping out in the living room.
She's scared and hisses at me when I come near her. I haven't ACTUALLY held he like any of my other 3 cats. I know she's scared and I'm not trying to push it. I was wondering if people think she might be "Feral" even though she has never been outside, she doesn't seem to like people, it took forever for them to get her in a cage so I could meet her. She seems fine with other cats... they regularly switched up the cats she was in the room with.
What things can I do so I can get her use to me? I don't think I want my cats to meet her until we have bonded a bit. I'm hoping to TRY to sleep in my room tomorrow night.
Any advice would be great. I just want to give this little princess a chance in a clean, quiet, loving environment.
The shelter was maintained well but but noisy they had every kind of animals, dogs, cats, birds, rabbits, pigs & horses, all the noises seemed to scare her. IT was a bad environment for a scaredy cat... For the last two days she has been closed off in my room by herself. My cats and I have been camping out in the living room.
She's scared and hisses at me when I come near her. I haven't ACTUALLY held he like any of my other 3 cats. I know she's scared and I'm not trying to push it. I was wondering if people think she might be "Feral" even though she has never been outside, she doesn't seem to like people, it took forever for them to get her in a cage so I could meet her. She seems fine with other cats... they regularly switched up the cats she was in the room with.
What things can I do so I can get her use to me? I don't think I want my cats to meet her until we have bonded a bit. I'm hoping to TRY to sleep in my room tomorrow night.
Any advice would be great. I just want to give this little princess a chance in a clean, quiet, loving environment.