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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 -- Keep working millions on welfare depend on you ------------------- |
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