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.
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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.
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.
She's got such a nice coat, hopefully she warms up to you soon
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.
English is a bastard language.
Where you have longened, it should be lengthened or elongated.
Yeah she looks pretty relaxed in the video so things are moving in the right direction!
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.