Thread: Walking your kitties?

N, do you want to know my big feral taming secret? reading. I sit with a book where the cat is and read. ignor the cat. maybe say a few soft words, but not look at it. if you have other cats around pet them so they can show new kitty what to do. dont ever look directly at the cats eyes unless they trust you. a good thing is to breifly look at them, squint your eyes, look away. cats do this to other cats as if to say " yeah i see you, yeah...

I think the running away part is her inviting him to a game of chase. He won't hurt her, I promise. I went home at 9 week to a 1 1/2 years old big brother, and while mommy was always kind of tense about it, he never actually did much more than try to boss me around during our get to know you stage, and I mostly let him so we didn't have many problems. Later on, when he had already become friends Boris did smack me around kind of...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dyJvM073aM Earlier he done this and I thought he had died, it scared the hell out of me. He done the same thing later so I decided to film this as it was something I had not seen before, i'm not sure why he done this but i think he's just so tired after falling off the window all the time anytime he falls asleep. Very strange cat, I must say. Anybody have any ideas?

Actually, I haven't started trimming her claws yet... I wasn't going to start that until she's a little older and a little more adept at jumping. I don't want her to NOT be able to climb, since that's how she gets onto the bed, chairs, etc and she loves to play on the bed. I just don't want her to climb my PANTS.

It's good that your are taking her to a vet. When a cat is a whiner period (like I am), then it's just something you have to live with [mom's note: and if they are prone to meowing, they do it a lot more when they are anxious, as mine are after I get back home from a trip]. But if this was a sudden change, it may very well be her way to tell you that she doesn't feel well.

the bump has been the same size...never gotn bigger or smaller. i brought home the new kitten and set it down and brought lil one to it...she hissed and ran away...i never made them be by eachother...the kitten hided under my moms bed for almost a week and we put catbox/food/water in there for it so it wasnt a just BAM theres another cat. they were isolated from eachother but with knowing eachother was there

Excellent! I love the "I'm ignoring you" game. It is better, she usually won't bolt unless we look right at her.

LOL! That is so adorable about the bathtub thing. I'd be really happy if my cats wanted to take baths! Hehe. I haven't actually given my girls real baths before, just wiped them down with the "bath cloths" or whatever, but I'm sure they wouldn't like it too much. They love to get in the bathtub and lick the tub after I take a shower (LOL!), but they don't like too much water actually getting on them. But...

Yupp, this is how our cats play with each other and the dog. Just monitor it and make sure the dog isn't getting the wrong message.

Exactly. As long as they're both happy--which they clearly are!