Hi all,
i've been on the message board a month or so now but i'm twiddling my thumbs and want to show off our new(ish) furry flatmate and share her story.
We got her in july from battersea, a terrified and painfully shy little 2 year old tabby and really wondered what we'd got ourselves into after she hid from us for weeks in the bottom of a shelving unit between some poster tubes and my girlfriend's washbag, it was so hard to see how she could possibly get more confident but eventually we let her (and she moved) into the living room and the underneath of the sofa became her new spot. She'd venture out for dinner, gradually going further and further from safety, but the breakthrough was when we found out how much she likes turkey. Coaxing her out became easy and she eventually got much more comfortable around us, now, four months on she is better than we ever though she would be. She'll happily wander around the flat with us as long as we don't move too fast, she ALWAYS jumps up on her hind legs to headbutt us while we make her dinner and now routinely follows the last one into the bedroom where she'll have a good nap in the corner before waking us up bombing up and down the hall at 4.30am.
Have to say message boards like this have been fantastic, i doubt it would have gone so smoothly without people's help and i'm so over the moon that we got her and although she's still miles away from being a lap cat i have a sneaking suspicion we might have a closet one on our hands... Thanks all, hope someone reading this decides to pick the shy little furry ball curled up in their carrier when the go down to the rescue cos they turn out brilliant!
p.s enjoy the pics: