Had a major breakthrough with Vulture. For anyone who hasn’t seen my previous comment, she is a cat who was hanging around my work, disappeared, and came back with difficulties with her back legs and full body tremors.
My ex and I have been working with her for several months after capture, including vet trips. For most of this time, she has been extremely standoffish, and no one can blame her given her condition.
Recently, she started rubbing her body against me and purring, but absolutely refused any return affections. One day, I just reached down while she was distracted and lightly touched her tail. That was allowed, and we’ve moved on to full pets! She’s now a happy little bundle of purrs, so long as I let her make the initial contact!
On top of that, our movement has gotten so much better. I don’t think she’ll ever be free of issues with her back legs, but she’s moving around a lot more, doing some more hops around her space, and has just become even livelier than ever before.
We have went from hiding in a corner and hissing, to happily strutting up and throwing ourselves in love mode. She’s even started showing increased interest in her toys! She has a favorite mouse toy she brings into her heated house to snuggle with nightly, and the others get bipped and bopped around.
We’re going to try a litterbox again soon(at first, she didn’t have the control to manage getting in and out of even a low one, so we’ve had puppy pads for now), and I have a lot of hope for that. She’s showing that she’s a very intelligent little cat that just needed time and comfort to recover.
Had a major breakthrough with Vulture. For anyone who hasn’t seen my previous comment, she is a cat who was hanging around my work, disappeared, and came back with difficulties with her back legs and full body tremors.
My ex and I have been working with her for several months after capture, including vet trips. For most of this time, she has been extremely standoffish, and no one can blame her given her condition.
Recently, she started rubbing her body against me and purring, but absolutely refused any return affections. One day, I just reached down while she was distracted and lightly touched her tail. That was allowed, and we’ve moved on to full pets! She’s now a happy little bundle of purrs, so long as I let her make the initial contact!
On top of that, our movement has gotten so much better. I don’t think she’ll ever be free of issues with her back legs, but she’s moving around a lot more, doing some more hops around her space, and has just become even livelier than ever before.
We have went from hiding in a corner and hissing, to happily strutting up and throwing ourselves in love mode. She’s even started showing increased interest in her toys! She has a favorite mouse toy she brings into her heated house to snuggle with nightly, and the others get bipped and bopped around.
We’re going to try a litterbox again soon(at first, she didn’t have the control to manage getting in and out of even a low one, so we’ve had puppy pads for now), and I have a lot of hope for that. She’s showing that she’s a very intelligent little cat that just needed time and comfort to recover.