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Originally Posted by wdfifteen
What a difference a few months makes.
Three months ago our Tuxedo cat TK would barely let you near him. Now he sits at the door waiting for someone to come out and pet him. He is suddenly the most affectionate and attention seeking cat of the bunch.
I like it.
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It can take a while.
All my cats are rescues. Our current oldest is Loki.
When we got him he was as close to full Feral as you can get without being full Feral.
The first 6-7 years if he saw me from 20 ft away he'd take off.
Loved our son, (for some reason he's the favorite for all our cats) and tolerated my wife and daughter.
Couple of years ago, I guess shortly after the boy went off to college, he would actually tolerate me sitting on the couch next to him.
That has progressed to him sitting on the coffee table waiting for me to sit down so he can crawl into my lap for pets.
Even our cat sitters have commented on his change. Used to be if they were sitting for us a week would go by with no sighting of him. Lately he comes out to say hello.
He also learned, sort of, how to meow. One of the tells between Feral and domesticated cats, someone's stray pet, is Ferals very rarely if ever vocalize to people.
It's a rather pathetic meow though, not full throated and melodic like a pet cats but this really short quiet kind of creaky sound. Took us a while to realize it was actually coming from him.