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After months of failed adoption attempts from rescues, I finally found a cat of the breed I wanted from a shelter on Friday morning. The shelter told my bf and I that the 2 year old cat had been there for weeks because he always hides under his blanket and no one sees him. He came from a hoarding situation (over 70 cats smh) but apparently they were still "decently looked after". He peeked out his blanket and let us pet him, so I decided to adopt him in hopes he would come out of his shell.
Once we got back to the apartment, I kept him in his carrier in the corner of our bedroom while I set up his litter box and reorganized a few things. Afterwards, I opened his carrier in front of a box-like cat house with a blanket in it, and covered both with a towel so he would feel safer. I left for awhile and came back in the afternoon to see him hiding in the box under the blanket. My bf decided he needed to make sure the cat knew where his litter box was. He picked up the poor thing and put him in it (pretty sure the cat wouldve figured it out on his own but whatever). Ofc the cat got scared and hid underneath the bed for the rest of the night.
Saturday night we seemed to be making progress! The cat stuck his head out from the bed a lil and let us pet him, even purring for awhile. We left him alone for a couple of hours when my bf decided he was gonna force the cat to love us. I told him to leave the damn thing alone, but noooo the cat "shouldn't be under the bed". He tried grabbing the cat and pulling him out from underneath, and obviously was met with hissing and some deep scratches all over his body. The cat has been hiding out of sight ever since ):
Is there anything I can do to destress the cat?? I'm afraid he hates us now and it's been a whole day since he's been out. Hasnt touched his food, water, or litterbox. I know my bf meant well and just wanted the cat to come out so I can play/pet it but I feel like he screwed us over and the cat will never be close to us. I guess I'm mainly worried because we lived in a shared 2 room apartment, and we're only giving him access to our bedroom right now. I feel like us being in the room often is making things worse.
Tldr: got a cat from a hoarding situation on Friday, has been in hiding but let us pet him a bit; bf got impatient and tried pulling cat out of hiding spot on Saturday, scaring the shit out of the cat and scratched up my bf pretty good. Cat hasn't come out in a day and afraid cat is now traumatized and will never come out.
Sorry this is so long. I don't have anyone else to ramble to lol
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