Re: cat question

They're like people, all different, Daryl. Some cats, if not socialized at a young age, just never do get very interested in people. Most just have their own specific peculiarities. Jack won't let me hold him for more than 15 seconds. But if I sit down with the phone, he's in my lap in a flash. Seamus will not sit in my lap unless I force the issue, then he'll stay just long enough and then take off. Braveheart will try to get into my lap every time I sit down and yet, when he arrived here, he wouldn't let me touch him for almost 2 years. Why? They're cats. 
Kitty
neIN, Zone 5
----- Original Message ----- From: "DP" <pulis@mindspring.com> 
To: "gardenchat" <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Saturday, March 29, 2008 2:02 PM
Subject: [CHAT] cat question
We've had Grayman (aka The Ghost) for 3 weeks and one day now. He regularly shows himself now (the first few days we only saw a disturbed litter box and 
empty food bowl) , and I can even pat him once in a while when Dreyfuss or
Diesel is between us. Sometimes he even plays in the same room I'm in. The
rest of the time he runs and hides. Most of the time I haven't a clue where he 
is, except if Detective Diesel tells us.
I can roll balls to him and he will bat them back, but if he doesn't hit them hard enough and I have to get close to him to roll them back, he nails me - hard! with his claws. We played a bit with the feather-and-rabbit's-foot on an elastic cord toy this afternoon, but he wouldn't get closer than a couple of 
feet.

I'm disappointed with the progress, but maybe it's normal? To recap, he's
about 5 months old. Lisa, the gal that rescued Rascal and his littermates,
finally had to trap him when the weather got icy cold. She was able to get his brother in almost immediately, but The Ghost was on his own for more than a month. She finally was able to hold him about a week before she brought him to me. When she first handed him to me, he settled on my lap for a few minutes, but then hopped down (I thought he wanted to investigate his new surroundings. 
He disappeared.)
He's so different from the others. You may remember that it took a couple of weeks of feeding Diesel (as a kitten) before he'd come to me, but once I was able to pick him up and bring him inside, he readily settled down. I picked up Rascal shortly after Bill brought him home, and when I put him on the floor he 
immediately climbed back up on my lap.

What do you think?

d

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