|
Welcome to our Cat Forums! | ||||
Welcome to our CatForums! You are seeing this message because you are viewing our cat forums as a guest. You can continue to browse our many cat related areas as a guest but you are more than welcome to register and join our friendly community of Cat Lovers! ... And for free! Doing so will also remove this message and some of the ads, such as the one on the left. Please click here to register. |
![]() |
|
|||||
|
|||||
Hello and welcome. It's lovely to have you here and Ninja too. He sounds like a wonderful, if challenging, member of your household. I hope it works out with the kittens - it's be good for all concerned if it did!! BTW - I love your little boy's name. It's SO evocative (and cool) ![]() |
|||||
|
|
|||||
|
|||||
![]() Ninja is beautiful - it sounds as though he is coming round, so good luck on his continued socialisation. ![]() |
|||||
|
|
||||
|
||||
Hi snoof - I'm quite new here myself but have already found this forum really useful (for the cats' Christmas prezzie ![]() Your Ninja looks and sounds SO like my Snowy (yep, she's black) - she was a semi-feral kitten. Even now she's 11.5, she's never going to be a lap cat. And sometimes it's so frustrating that I just get to the point when she'll trust me and then I have to go and spoil it all by taking her to the vet or worming her, dammit. But cats are independent creatures - if Snowy wasn't happy, she'd refuse to come into the house at all, or take herself off quickly enough and I'm sure Ninja would be the same - so even though it feels like an uphill struggle, don't be too hard on yourself - the life you are giving him is almost certainly so much better than the one he had before: focus on the moments when he looks comfortable and happy, even if he's not interacting with you! He looks like a beautiful healthy cat, keep us posted as to how he gets on with the kits. |
||||
|
|
|||||
|
|||||
I will do ![]() ![]() I even suspect I appreciate them more because I know how hard it is for him to trust me enough to allow those things to happen, whereas a more trusting cat may be more affectionate, but doesn't have to work through fright to do it... It makes me very proud of him ![]() |
|||||
|
|
||||
|
||||
If Ninja is happy to be in the same room as you and will sleep when you're around, then sounds like he'll be fine given time, although he probably won't ever be a cuddlebug. You're right, the little things are so much more meaningful when you know they are getting over a fear of you - I'm sorry to say that I push Jenny away occasionally, because she's ALWAYS affectionate (but I wish she wouldn't sleep on the pillow and sometimes I want to give one of the others a bit of attention!) - but I always make time for Snowy's 'moments'. Oh, and I reckon they must have some sixth sense, they always pick bad times to decide they *do* want some affection after all - Snowy went through a phase of actually :gasp: jumping on my lap - but only ever in the mornings about five minutes before I had to leave for work. At the moment, she's sleeping on the bed with me. She waits until I'm in bed before jumping up and always peeps over the edge of the duvet to see if I'm awake to scratch her ears before we settle - but if I reach to cuddle her - she's off. |
||||
|
|
|||||
|
|||||
Cats can be such teases ![]() My old cat, Dishrag (whom I got because he was thrown out of a car as a kitten ![]() ![]() |
|||||
|