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I've had Indira since saturday. When I was ready to go to bed today I heard her meow. So I went in and tried to play with her. To my surprise she didn't run for cover immediately and to my very big joy she began play-cuddling with the toy stick. I'm not allowed totouch her directly yet (she even bit me earlier today when I tried) but it's great progress and totally worth staying up late as she even purred a little. Also someone interested contacted the shelter and they'll come here in the next days.

Ich habe einen großartigen Erfolg mit meiner schwarzen Pflege-Katze zu vermelden

Indira ist seit Samstag bei mir. Als ich mich heute bettfertig gemacht hatte hörte ich sie maunzen. Also bin ich rein zu ihr und hab es mit Spielen versuc ht. Zu meiner Überraschung ist sie diesmal nicht sofort zurückgewichen und zu meiner großen Freude hat sie sogar angefangen mit dem Stab zu schmusen. Ich darf sie noch nicht anfassen (sie hat mich beim Versuch heute sogar gebissen) aber es ist ein toller Fortschritt und absolut wert dass ich länger aufgeblieben bin da sie sogar ein wenig geschnurrt hat. Laut Tierheim kommen die nächsten Tage auch schon Interessenten hier her.

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[–] garbagebagel@lemmy.world 6 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

Hooray! Good on you for being patient.

It took us just over a month to acclimate our little semi feral bastard, but it was so worth it he's a huge cuddle bug. He still bites but it's just "love bites" that happen to be very sharp.

[–] prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

My client showed the gif twice and my brain went “the top gif is in English and bottom is in German, duh”

… anyways.

Glad Indira is becoming comfy :)

Haha. I'm using jerboa which doesn't show it when you expand the post, so I embed it by default.

[–] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

She's got such a nice coat, hopefully she warms up to you soon

[–] slevinkelevra@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Today I managed to trick her into letting me give her some scritches. I first used the stick as in the video, then shortener it bit by bit and let her notice it. I finally reacher her while still holding the stick. She must have thought what an amazing new scratching technique the stick had learned and REALLY leaned into it. When she looked up and saw my hand was doing all the scritching she growled and went a few steps back. I then longened the stick again and she came closer and thus I shortened the stick again. This time she didn't growl. Bit by bit she becomes more trusting.

[–] LowtierComputer@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

English is a bastard language.

Where you have longened, it should be lengthened or elongated.

[–] HulkSmashBurgers@reddthat.com 13 points 1 day ago

Yeah she looks pretty relaxed in the video so things are moving in the right direction!

[–] Deadlytosty@feddit.nl 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Nice progress! Well done, hopefully she warms up even more soon, keep us posted.

If the bite pierced skin it might be worth going to the doctor for a check. According to my vet a catbite that punctured the skin has a near 100% chance of becoming an infection.

It went through but only a but, she immediately let go, didn't bite hard. Since she has been in the shelter for a long time without being sick and I disinfected it right away I should be fine. Thans for the concern though.