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Old August 29th 04, 03:44 AM
Frank Pittel
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I wouldn't worry about it to much. Keep a bowl of food and water along with a
litter box in the bedroom. He'll come out to eat and drink when he gets hungry.

Earlier in the summer I was given a kitten that was rescued from a fright yard.
The mother and rest of the liter had been killed. When I got him home the first
thing he did was hide and then didn't come back out. For a week the only sign
that he was there and even alive was that he was eating, drinking and using the
liter box. It took better then a week before I saw him again.


Tiger Girl wrote:
: Hi,

: I just got a new kitty from the shelter. It's the first new kitty I've
: had in nearly 20 years. I have a venerable old kitty who found me as a
: kitten. He's gone to live with my S.O. 1,000 miles away (for very good
: reasons all having to do with him, not with us, and I miss him horribly
: - so no flames, please).

: I hated living without a cat, so off to the shelter I went. This brave
: boy I took home was a stray at about a year old and was hit by a car and
: pretty severely damaged. The awesome vets at the shelter patched him up
: (you can't even tell by looking at him that he was injured). He was
: definitely Mr. Tough with the other shelter cats (rambunctious, not
: mean) and reasonably friendly for a cat who was on his Pouncing Rounds.

: So I brought him home, let him out of the carrier, and put down some
: food for him. He inhaled that, crept around for an hour, and found the
: bedroom a couple of hours ago. He's been under the bed ever since. Now
: I'm worried that he's going to starve under there, or that he will be
: too scared to come out and use his box (which formerly belonged to Old
: Cat, I cleaned it, but I'm sure there's only so much one can do, and I
: figured he was probably pretty used to other cat smells from the
: shelter). I'm sure that these fears are irrational, mainly because
: every time I've checked up on him he's been curled up with his paws
: tucked in and not looking particularly freaked out. I know the best
: thing to do is to let him be, and I have been (other than checking to
: see if he's still there) but I'm worried he won't ever come out.

: I think that some of what's driving this is that he's been through so
: much horrible stuff that I really wish he could know how great things
: are going to be from now on, and that he has a bed to sleep in, etc.
: Like I said, it's been 20 years since I had a new cat and if memory
: serves (and who knows...) Old Cat showed up at the door as a 6 week old
: kitten, rolled into my life, and staked out the entire joint as his
: instantly.

: I think I just need some hand-holding, here...my friends all have cats,
: but they aren't cats who had been damaged before.

: Thanks!

: TG


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