I plan to do a little searching on the subject line, because I feel one
cat we have needs to be a little more sociable. ^_^

We adopted the antisocial Tinkerbell around 1991. At first she was a
very playful cat, and even though my mother was the one who brought her
home, Tink really took to me and I became her designated human. I'm
practically the only one who is allowed to touch her. ^_^

For most of her life so far, she's had 2 friends. One passed away in
1998 at the age of 20, and the other she's always had, Tabbytha, passed
away just a few weeks ago. I'm still shocked at how quickly her
condition deteriorated. The previous cat-friend lingered for weeks, so
we were ready to accept what would happen. But Tabbytha went in the
space of about 4 days. She was 17 years old.

Tink had been spayed, but I think something happened during the
operation. The vet said she had turned blue, but they corrected the
supply of oxygen and she came out OK. Except since then she's been
really antisocial. I'm still her most trusted human, but she seems very
mistrustful of most others.

We recently had to move and it wasn't an easy time to catch Tink and get
her out of our old home. I managed to scrape a finger in the process,
and considering the source, I got off really lucky. ^_^

Tink spent most of her time hidden in the basement, and she's still
doing that at the new house. She used to come upstairs when I was the
only one around and it was somewhat quiet. She gets along with our dog
(they were best buddies when she was a kitten). I've decided for now to
let her keep hiding, even though I can always find her hiding between
the wall and the boxes in one corner. She remains at the one spot a lot,
but she does respond to a kind touch when I find her and reach down to
scratch her in places she likes. ^_^ I have been able to pick her up a
couple of times, but I don't make a point of doing it every time I find
her.

I'm afraid that due to the loss of her long time friend, she's feeling
abandonement in a big way, and having to be removed from our old house
wasn't something she liked. We have my grandfather's cat with us, and he
has turned out to be a sweet kitty, but I don't think he and Tink will
get along well.

She became overweight after being spayed, which I think is a result of
her needing to hide all the time (inactivity). Not much I can do about
that, but I'd love to find out how to get her to be social. I thought
about using her favorite cat treats because that worked, maybe a little
fresh catnip. I thought about eliminating the spaces she uses to hide,
but then she'd just find other spaces to hide that would be more
difficult to get her out of... ^_- Any ideas on getting her to socialize
would be great, even though I think her behavior is deeply rooted.

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up, my pillow was gone!