Shy cat whispering

[hopless500]

It'll not take long. Inquisitiveness is in-built and will take over

 

[Melonfish]

Eat the cat.

 

[RedRider]

His nose pokes!

The woman at the rescue centre said he liked whiskas salmon sticks but yesterday we could only find co-op own brand stuff. He turned his nose at those. Four shops later we have the good stuff.

And so, the first grainy pics...

 

[fossyant]

Good stuff. Fussy already.

Mine are !! One won't eat fresh fish or chicken. Only cat food. The other thinks this is great, as will happily eat the kids left over chicken.

Just got to leave them to it, leave food and litter tray about, and not mither it until it get's used to you. Harder to do if there are young kids in the house, but if everyone can leave it alone at first. Won't take long !

 

[Globalti]

That's one handsome ginger puss!

 

[RedRider]

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I think you should call him Mad Doug

I like it but my OH will likely have the final say. The last was called Harry No-Teeth on account of his gummyness and the one before was Jeffrey Banjo. Jeffrey was thought extremely odd-looking when he first arrivedbut it turned out he was pedigree oriental short hair. All ears, snout and limbs.
The rescue home home had named our newest arrival Teddy btw. we'll see.

I give it six months before he is stalking around the place as if he owns it and you are the ones squeezing along the edges of the room

Did you watch this, btw? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22821639.

yes, I saw that but will try and watch again. The main thing I remember is how some cats tend to prowl their territory in shifts to avoid stand-offs.

Always two there are, no more no less. A master and an apprentice.

We went intending to get a pair this time

That's one handsome ginger puss!

Cheers. Yours are gorgeous too. nice pics.

Good stuff. Fussy already.

Mine are !! One won't eat fresh fish or chicken. Only cat food. The other thinks this is great, as will happily eat the kids left over chicken.

Just got to leave them to it, leave food and litter tray about, and not mither it until it get's used to you. Harder to do if there are young kids in the house, but if everyone can leave it alone at first. Won't take long !

we're giving him space and letting him get on. It's funny thinking he's under the chair or behind the telly tho! I guess he's just listening to us, sussing things out.

As I write he came out for a little wander, seemed to be scenting around the base of the settee and the speaker stand then he went back into his hides-hole. He's been in the house 27 hours now. little by little...

 

[stephec]

We've had 2 from the RSPCA after my eldest took care of a stray. They both were timid and it took a couple of weeks for the younger one and about 3 months for the older (abused) one to settle down.

When we put the 2 together we got Feliway, which helped a bit, although it meant they behaved like kittens. That was OK with us, but when the younger one pounced from the top of the bookcase onto the Yorkshire Water man's head he didn't appreciate it for some reason

Was he wearing a wig, that would have been superb.

And before anyone states the obvious, I know cats don't wear wigs.

 

[MarkF]

Take it back and get a proper one. We have 3, my daughter chose the last one, it's 2.5 years old now and a bag of nerves, always has been.

I once had 2 cats with no names, they were known as big cat and little cat (on the vets records too) I am sure they were not bothered.

 

[jazzkat]

He'll soon be ruling the roost. Luvley kitty

 

[Brandane]

Take it back and get a proper one.

Take it back and .... get a dog .

 

[hopless500]

Take it back and .... get a dog .

 

[RedRider]

He rolled on his back when I rubbed his ears so no going back now.

 

[Cletus Van Damme]

Reading this makes me want to get another cat after mine died on new years day. I swore I would not have another as I was so/am so upset, and my other elderly cat died at a similar time in 2012. If I do get one it will be a rescue fully grown cat like the one that recently died (my other was a kitten) and the one in this thread.

It's strange as when I used to come in it used to annoy me as to what I would meet, it would often urinate outside the litter tray (not the end of the world with the flooring in the kitchen), the last couple of days I have missed that and hate coming in to an empty house

 

[hopless500]

Reading this makes me want to get another cat after mine died on new years day. I swore I would not have another as I was so/am so upset, and my other elderly cat died at a similar time in 2012. If I do get one it will be a rescue fully grown cat like the one that recently died (my other was a kitten) and the one in this thread.

It's strange as when I used to come in it used to annoy me as to what I would meet, it would often urinate outside the litter tray (not the end of the world with the flooring in the kitchen), the last couple of days I have missed that and hate coming in to an empty house

Losing one is horrible, and it takes a while to sort it mentally, but I couldn't be without my 3 beasties. They make life much more noisy, messy, mad interesting!

 

[Cletus Van Damme]

Losing one is horrible, and it takes a while to sort it mentally, but I couldn't be without my 3 beasties. They make life much more noisy, messy, mad interesting!

Thanks very much for that Hopeless. Pets are great company and fun I know...

By the way to the OP that's a gorgeous looking kitty.