My feral has been with me for 10 months! All is going great! I have her sitting on my lap and constantly asking to be pet. She meows for me, licks me and her toys, does not play with any toys just licks them like they are her babies (think she may have been a TNR mommy), eats and goes to the bathroom in front of me. She almost dozes off to sleep in front of me. She won't scratch or hiss at me anymore. She is a total indoor cat and hasn't wanted to escape. She seems completely happy indoors.
I am trying to get her to be held and carried. Holding is ok until I start to walk with her. She basically starts to hyperventilate and uses all her limbs and nails to dig into me and try to jump off of me. Two months ago, I used a beach towel and wrapped her back legs and held her thru a whole vet visit. I didn't know it would work but the beach towel did the trick. She is now frightened if I am carrying things that are towel or clothing like. I thought maybe I shouldn't try to walk around holding her with the beach towel wrapped around her back legs. So this past week I have been trying to carry her, I wear thick clothing but she gets totally scared and wiggles and bounces off of me using her nails to catch onto anywhere on my body to jump off of. I know she is just scared when she jumps off of me. The scratching is not mean it is just escaping off. She just ends up hiding for a few hours each time I try to carry her a little. I have decided to not let her hide after each jump off and go directly to her hide out and pet her and talk to her nice. She does not hiss or scratch me in her hideout. She lets me pet her. It is just the carrying she is scared of. Any thoughts of how to do this carrying? Should I wrap her in a towel and walk around with her? Oh and my feral always has to be pushed to the next thing or she ends up just hiding her whole life away and never getting over being scared.
I am trying to get her to be held and carried. Holding is ok until I start to walk with her. She basically starts to hyperventilate and uses all her limbs and nails to dig into me and try to jump off of me. Two months ago, I used a beach towel and wrapped her back legs and held her thru a whole vet visit. I didn't know it would work but the beach towel did the trick. She is now frightened if I am carrying things that are towel or clothing like. I thought maybe I shouldn't try to walk around holding her with the beach towel wrapped around her back legs. So this past week I have been trying to carry her, I wear thick clothing but she gets totally scared and wiggles and bounces off of me using her nails to catch onto anywhere on my body to jump off of. I know she is just scared when she jumps off of me. The scratching is not mean it is just escaping off. She just ends up hiding for a few hours each time I try to carry her a little. I have decided to not let her hide after each jump off and go directly to her hide out and pet her and talk to her nice. She does not hiss or scratch me in her hideout. She lets me pet her. It is just the carrying she is scared of. Any thoughts of how to do this carrying? Should I wrap her in a towel and walk around with her? Oh and my feral always has to be pushed to the next thing or she ends up just hiding her whole life away and never getting over being scared.