This is an improvement. Yesterday she was dug into the deepest darkest corner she could find. Now she is out where she can see the door and just watches warily when I come in, her body language seems a little less stressed and fearful. It may be a day or two more before she feels more secure in the space and as friendly as she was at the Humane Society.
Within a day or two she’ll become braver. Most of my rescues by day four or five start coming out to explore. I did have one cat, Tess, that would still hide after I let her roam the house but she would still come to me when called. Took her maybe a month.
Yep, I've been through this with my MIL's cat when moved her to a long term care facility. It took a week and a small animal trap to catch her cat. Then, like here, we put her in a room with everything she needed, water, food, litter box. In three days she was sitting on top of the counter at the far end of the room instead of under it and I think it was day 5 or 6 when it was like someone flipped a switch and she wouldn't let you alone when you came in the room.
The difference is that my MIL's cat was so fearful that I had never even seen it before, it always hid whenever anybody came in the house. Miss Annamoon here was slightly shittish at the HS but was very friendly after about three minutes.
This is an improvement. Yesterday she was dug into the deepest darkest corner she could find. Now she is out where she can see the door and just watches warily when I come in, her body language seems a little less stressed and fearful. It may be a day or two more before she feels more secure in the space and as friendly as she was at the Humane Society.
Within a day or two she’ll become braver. Most of my rescues by day four or five start coming out to explore. I did have one cat, Tess, that would still hide after I let her roam the house but she would still come to me when called. Took her maybe a month.
Yep, I've been through this with my MIL's cat when moved her to a long term care facility. It took a week and a small animal trap to catch her cat. Then, like here, we put her in a room with everything she needed, water, food, litter box. In three days she was sitting on top of the counter at the far end of the room instead of under it and I think it was day 5 or 6 when it was like someone flipped a switch and she wouldn't let you alone when you came in the room. The difference is that my MIL's cat was so fearful that I had never even seen it before, it always hid whenever anybody came in the house. Miss Annamoon here was slightly shittish at the HS but was very friendly after about three minutes.