Paranoid feral female

A feral female cat has been here for three years and four months.
Still not touchable, but light years better than the first hour or
two of window gymnastics after being trapped inside. When she
knows some delicious food is on the way, she is able to let loose
a tiny little meow or two.

I recently added another carpeted and upholstered eight-foot 1x4
in a different location, to give them another route up to their
Skyway. It has been there for almost one week. She hangs around
the area at the base of that new climbing post when playing with
Kitty, but she is unable to climb up the thing. Probably within
two weeks from now she will be able to climb it (their main
perch/platform is right at the top of the new climbing post). Any
change in her environment requires much time to adjustment.

The male cat Kitty climbed up the thing within minutes after it
was put into position. I think she knows what it is for, but like
so many other things she is just unable to act. Very similar to a
person being unable to move when he (or she) is frightened. They
might want or need to do something, but they just cannot do it.
Must be a form of hell in that little mind of hers.




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