Cami 12/13 Day 2 am ~ 70

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Sheila & Beau GA & Jeddie GA

Sheila & Beau GA & Jeddie GA

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Ok, we are at 48 hrs and counting.....

Beau washed her head last night! I put her on the bed and she purred. He jumped up, walked right over to her and started enthusiastically washing her head. She stayed, kept purring, but I think she was a bit surprised and confused. He was begin a bit rough, like "this cat is really dirty and needs a good cleaning", and he was licking her fur backwards, so eventually she complained and I gently shooed him away. 'Away' being about 6" over where he curled up and went to sleep. She stayed another few minutes, maybe 5 and then left.

I feel like maybe she wasn't allowed on furniture where she came from. It's always impossible to figure out what their home life was, but when someone does what they did to her (declaw at age 11 and then getting rid of them - and that was before the FD diagnosis), then they aren't the kind of people that allow cats to just be cats and sleep on the furniture and stuff.
 
Woohoo Go Cami Go

I know what you mean about never being able to figure out their pasts..Autumn was very much the same way but for her it wasn't all furniture just the bed. I still can't get her to stay with us at night...And she will only get up if I put her up there..at first I thought it might be because she was afraid to jump without claws to catch herself so I put stairs by the bed..nope just not getting on the bed.

She also won't jump directly onto our laps, she will sit at our feet and put her paws on our knees until we pick her up or she takes a circular route by getting on the coffee table then couch, then the lamp table and finally onto the loveseat to our laps. Once she is there she will stay as long as you want to hold her. You just have to wonder what is going on behind those eyes sometimes. Do they understand that it is Okay now to just be a kitty and do what kitties do?

Mel, Maxwell, Autumn & The Fur Gang
 
Awwww, Beau grooming Cami is so sweet! And that she let him shows that she is adapting to her new home. A real home, perhaps the first one she's even known.

Vinny was/is a recovering "floor kitty" too. When he first came to me he'd run out of the room as soon as I entered, jump off of the bed, couch, table, etc. when I entered the room and "caught" him in the act. But with some time, treats, and watching the other cats roam wherever they pleased, sitting on tables, couches, jumping up on my lap, etc. he's coming around. Both he and Hadley still refuse to sleep on my bed though. They will both come and sit there for a few minutes but then it's like someone set off an internal alarm clock and it's time to leave.

Vinny is front paw declawed too but in such a way that I've never seen before. His was done when he was about a year old and by a vet in Ohio. His front claws look like they were cut off at the base leaving little nubs there that will never grow again and the bones of his toes are still intact. I hope this is less painful than losing the entire toe, bone and all. I can't imagine what pure torture being declawe4d at 11 years old must have been for Cami. cat_pet_icon
 
+56 = 80 :-D

Laura, I am surprised that Vinny's claws didn't grow back. I wonder if there is more to the procedure like lasering the nail (claw) bed so that it won't continue to grow. Claws growing back is a somewhat common problem if the surgery was not done properly. Or little bits of bone from that first metacarpal get stuck in the wound. From the sound of it though, it seems like if you had to declaw a cat, the way Vinny was is better - as long as the tendons remain connected to their proper places so contractions don't happen. That seems to be the bigger issue down the road for them. It's like having a fist full of hammer toes. Poor things.

The woman that had Cami after her original owner, starting about 6 months after the declaw, thought she lacked confidence about jumping and was just starting to get it back when I took her. Cami seems able to get up on things when determined - which is not as much any more now that her appetite is back to normal. I ended up with only one place I could put food that she could not get to it, but only one of my other cats could - atop 6' tall book cases in my dining room.

It's so weird that she got up on the bed every night when we were in MI, but won't get on it all at home - or stay once I put her up there. She even climbed up on top of me and was purring away and making nests up there.
 
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