Posted on 10/18/2016 1:13:04 PM PDT by beaversmom
bfl
Get rid of it.You were scammed.
Get a kitten from a litter not a loner
” Domestic Violence....
http://imgur.com/gallery/nNMmm9z “
lol...I saw that one earlier. I thought the kitten was really gone get whacked hard! But what a gentle little boop she did.
Well, there’s 20 minutes of my life gone.
Thanks!
If you have a spare bathroom or bedroom, it would be best to isolate kitty there for a week or so until he/she is more acclimatized. Put needed food and water bowls, along with a litter box and a bed with an article of clothing with your scent. Spend some time trying to coax him/her out to play and cuddling.
As far as the no eating, BE CAREFUL. Kittens that young need to eat. Going even 2 days without food could set up hepatic lipidosis, a potentially life-threatening condition, even with medical intervention. Find a good quality canned food and put that out. Good luck.
Cuteness overload!
(and mom looks exhausted... 8^)
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Towards the end of the vid, mom looks a little hinky.... 10 mile stare.
Get rid of it.You were scammed.
Get a kitten from a litter not a loner
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Agreed. There is something very wrong with this kitten and it will not socialize. Get a kitten and meet it with its mom and sibs and watch how well it works with people.
I feel bad for you. Let her be. No chasing or catching. Get some tuna and put a little in a bowl when you go to bed. See if she eats it overnight. Do it again and again until she lets you watch her eat. Then try to lightly pet her while she’s eating. If you can’t get it ironed out in a week or two then it will be really hard to socialize her. If it is true she was fostered she’ll come around. If she doesn’t then they lied to you and she’s wild. Good luck.
I'm not expert, but I have had cats since I was a baby so I'm kinda used to them. I would continue to try to keep her in one room for the time being. If you have a bathroom attached to your bedroom, you can put the kitty box and her food in there.
I'd talk real sweet to her if you are in the room with her. Call her kitty, kitty or her name. Use a high pitched voice. Maybe give her some tuna fish or some fishy smelling cat food while you are doing the voice so she can associate something good with your presence. There are also cat treats you can buy that she may like. I once had a cat with an upper respiratory infection that I got from the pound. I decided to nurse him back to health myself rather than take him back to the municipal pound where they would have probably put him down. The cat rescue that I contacted about getting him to eat suggested tuna fish so he would eat. I know your cat is most likely not sick, but just scared. But that smell may help to get her out of her shell.
Since she's still a kitten, and even if she were an older, cat, you can get one of those kitty toys on a stick or make something of your own that you can dangle in front of her to play with her when you have her on the bed. There are not too many cats that can resist that urge to "hunt".
My brother and his wife adopted two kittens an old high school friend of mine found in a park...This was many years ago. As far as I know they still has the two. They were extremely frightened cats...probably on the verge of being feral had they not been found. It's hard to get them over that if they don't get the early socialization, but it's not totally impossible. I mean all cats are different with their personalities. That may just be hers. She may eventually warm up with you, but you will have to be extra gentle with her and patient. My brother's cats did after doing what yours is doing. Eventually they became loving toward him and his wife. But they would hide, for the most part, when company would come. They just weren't going to ever be super social cats with the masses. But for him and his wife they were fine.
So that would be my advice. Keep her in your bedroom so she can't get "lost" in the house too much. Once she gets comfortable in her surroundings and with you, you can crack the door so she can explore your house more. Give her some fishy stuff to attract her nose and win her over. Talk super sweet to her. Sneak some pets in as much as you can. Keep her confined in the room with you at night...that way she has no way to escape and continue her anti-socialness as much. I bet soon she will be jumping up on the bed with you and purring. That's what my brother's skittish cats did. Just takes some time and patience with some cats. Do you know her history?
I don't think so, I found the cat on Petfinder.com and the rescue agency is called ScootersResQ........
I also have all the documentation relevant to when she was rescued, when she was neutered, vaccinated and micro chipped.........
A great deal of patience will be job one.
She's currently still under my bed so I just now slipped a bowl of food under there for her.............We'll see what happens.
PS So sorry on the loss of your other kitty.
Keep us posted on the progress of your new kitty.
If your new cat was in deed a house cat, and friendly with people, then she might warm up to you. Just leave food & water out, and let her get accustomed to the new home and you.
Do not chase it, do not cage it.
On the other hand, if the cat was never a house cat, then it will likely never be calm around you. Barn cats/yard cats will seldom let anyone near them. If after a few days of being patient, and she does not warm up, get rid of her, as she was likely never acclimated to a home and is too old to be now.
We have yard cats, a mom and some 8 week old kittens. Mom will let us get about 3 feet from her, the kittens about 6 feet. I never expect to get any closer.
We also have a house cat, it cannot get enough attention from us.
This is the shelter I volunteer for (see link below). I haven’t read any of these links yet, but it’s a list of resources on cat behaviour so maybe you can find something useful there.
Thank you Mrs. Cleaver.
You are welcome, Eddie.
The Momma Raccoon who is bringing her litter of five to my back deck some nights to feed on what I put out for them has an interesting trilling sound she uses to call her little explorers to gather around the food bowl.
Makes ya wonder if cats remember previous lives ... and deaths. Did kitty drown in a previous life?
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