Hi everyone,
My boyfriend and I just recently adopted a 5 month old kitten from a foster a month ago. He's gotten along very well with my 2 other cats and has no problem navigating around the house either! But when my boyfriend or me try to approach him, he'll dart the other way or start backing up. Even getting near him is very difficult. The only time he will accept pets or let us hold him is when he is very sleepy.
What can we do to get him to warm up to us? I usually do interactive play with all the cats for maybe 30 minutes a few times a day and his confidence has built up and his relationship with my other cats are awesome (they even cuddle all the time!!). When we try to pet him we get down to his level and let him smell our hands. He will eat treats out of our hands but any other interaction is very difficult. Any advice on how to conquer this? I know it's only been a month in a new house as well but we haven't dealt with this when we got our other kitties so this is very new to us.
I should mention that for most of the day now we try to leave him alone and see if he'll approach us and sometimes he'll walk up to us, look at us for a moment and then back away. He'll smell our hands but then start to back up too.
Thank you so much for any advice.
My boyfriend and I just recently adopted a 5 month old kitten from a foster a month ago. He's gotten along very well with my 2 other cats and has no problem navigating around the house either! But when my boyfriend or me try to approach him, he'll dart the other way or start backing up. Even getting near him is very difficult. The only time he will accept pets or let us hold him is when he is very sleepy.
What can we do to get him to warm up to us? I usually do interactive play with all the cats for maybe 30 minutes a few times a day and his confidence has built up and his relationship with my other cats are awesome (they even cuddle all the time!!). When we try to pet him we get down to his level and let him smell our hands. He will eat treats out of our hands but any other interaction is very difficult. Any advice on how to conquer this? I know it's only been a month in a new house as well but we haven't dealt with this when we got our other kitties so this is very new to us.
I should mention that for most of the day now we try to leave him alone and see if he'll approach us and sometimes he'll walk up to us, look at us for a moment and then back away. He'll smell our hands but then start to back up too.
Thank you so much for any advice.
