Mindy St. Claire is making good progress in her socialization, though it is very slow and I still can't handle her & she's INCREDIBLY suspicious of crates (which is a concern for any vet visits and when we move (I'm in an apartment now & I won't live here her whole life). We have recently acquired a very sweet, gregarious TNR cat (who didn't get returned, obvs) and he is happy to march into my lap and purr. They are quite fond of one another and he has been very good for improving MSC's confidence overall. When he is friendly and lets me give him scritches, she watches all of this with interest and I was thinking that she might follow suit some day. Ican imagine that some ferals learn to trust people by watching cats who do, but do some cats NOT get friendlier when they have good examples close to hand? Is "doesn't matter if they have a good cat teacher" one of the possibilities?