Cat loves me but she’s still so nervous and jumpy. I guess she always will be. A couple of nights ago, I must have taken 100 or more pictures trying to get a good picture of her. She isn’t still very much.
Cat
Every single evening she sits behind the RTV and waits for me to come outside. She knows I have to put the chickens up and she knows I’ll come over and sit in that chair and we can have some quality time together.
Cat
The minute I open the back door, she starts walking toward me. I’ll head on over towards the chair, stopping as we meet so I can pat her on the head. Then she comes over to my chair. Very rarely will she hop up onto my lap but she rubs on my legs and lets me pet her.
Cat
She’s such a pretty kitty. I wish I could get a better picture of her.
Cat
After a while, I get up to go close up the chickens. Then we have a problem. She doesn’t want me to leave her. She gets right in front of me and stops and either I almost trip over her and scare her half to death or I have to make a sudden move to scare her back a little . . just so I can walk.
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She follows me til she finally gets the message that I’m have other things to do.
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And, wherever she stops, she waits til I get done with my chicken chores and she knows I’ll come back and she’ll get just a little more loving.
Cat
Every evening . . that’s our ritual. I’m betting when I was gone to MO, Cat wondered if she would ever see me again.
Donna says
You and Cat have come a LONG way! Glad she feels love now because no telling what she felt before she found you.
Maggie says
Wow she really does like you now, huh? I had to be away last week for a family emergency and my scaredy cat took a couple of days to forgive me and come sit with me.
Sherrill says
Such a pretty tortoiseshell..I used to have one. So sweet. My goofy cat does that to me all the time, stopping right in my path and almost causing me to trip over him (sometimes I do). But he’s so funny after I’ve been gone, it’s like he’s all over me like a paper bag, afraid to let me out of his sight for fear I’ll disappear again.
Dottie N. says
Thanks for the “aw” moment!
Debbie in Wa. says
Give her some time. I just went through the same thing with a cat around here. He would swat at my legs when I tried to leave. He wanted me to keep petting him. It took over a year before he would step close to our front door. Well, here it is, three years later, and he is part of the family. He comes in and sleeps in his favorite spots, stays out all night during the summers, and loves to be held. By the way, we named him Spook cause in the beginning, he would run away if he heard a noise.
Linda in NE says
When we first moved to this house my parents brought us a kitty from my Aunt & Uncle’s farm since they had moved to town. A quite wild farm kitty that looked very much like your Cat. We named her Spook because she just looked like a Halloween kitty. When we first got her she stayed in the basement for a couple weeks and then step-by-step she moved up the stairs until she was hanging out with us most of the time and going outside to explore.
barbarabarbara says
of course she wondered. she’s just started trusting you and doesn’t want to lose you. who knows what her life was like before you came into it? she’s no longer feral. she’s an outdoor cat, but she’s definitely your cat now.
Peg says
Awwwww!!! That’s so sweet!
Dar in MO says
I love the coloring of CAT. I sure hope she doesn’t run away or get eaten by one of the wild critter in your woods. She missed you, for sure.