Chris wrote:

Glad to hear things are going well... Just another thought for you... If
you have a large cage, you might try leaving her in there for a couple of
days with food/water & some little toys (balls, etc)(it gets a little
messy). Put the crate somewhere where she can see you a good deal of the
time (but throw a sheet over it so maybe she can see only out of one side).
Try putting crate on some boxes or something so that you're not towering
over her. Just putting your hands in & out to clean litter, change
food/water, will give her a sense that you're not going to hurt her. THen I
would try leaving the gate open & gradually moving the food to just below
the crate so she can jump in & out... I did this with an adult stray and
now he is the most affectionate guy in the world! It really only took a
couple of weeks for him to slowly discover the couch & bed & decide it was
better than the towel in the crate..... I think what did it was that he
could see & hear all the routines of 'indoor' life and still feel safe in
his little den. At first he would only come out to explore at night or when
he thought I wasn't looking.

When I was socializing Sebastian, after a while I got a cage I'd put him
in and put him in various rooms with me and the (then) other two cats.
At the beginning I'd shroud part of the cage as Chris suggests above.
That way Sebbie got to interact with Caley and Benjamin without their
being able to tangle, and he got to size up the house. He visited every
major room multiple times. He got to see me cooking, eating, watching
TV, doing computer stuff, and so on.

When it finally got to be time to release Sebbie into the general
population, at first he didn't want to leave the guestroom where he'd
been living for 2.5 months, but then, when he did leave, there was no
slinking around the perimeters of rooms. He walked right down the
middle of each one like he owned it. He knew the house already, because
he'd already been everywhere.

Hope this helps.

Priscilla