Ok, so I finally convince my husband to let us foster a kitty and now the kitty is driving him nuts, so I really need some help!! The kitty is absolutely adorable and I’m sure will be a joy one day, but for now he keeps us up aaaaaaaall night, won’t eliminate in the liter box, and is still too scared to let us touch him without hissing. Oh, and he’s only 6 or 7 weeks old – he’s a stray we’re fostering for the local shelter, we did NOT take him from his mommy. Husband says if things don’t drastically improve in the next two days we have to take him back to the shelter, so PLEASE help.
Sleep: Kitty sleeps pretty well during the day and sleeps a little at night, but the two nights we’ve had him he’s just wandered around our little studio apartment meowing incessantly! He also likes to come up on the bed and just wandering around, hop on, hop off, climb on top of us, meow. It’s impossible to sleep. I can handle it, but my husband can’t. He’s going crazy. What do we do? This is especially complicated by his socialization issues, but I’ll get there.
Litter Box: Pretty simple, he won’t use it. We noticed that he liked to use our yoga matt instead, so we tried folding up the yoga mat and just putting the litter box on top. We also tried putting his waste in the litter box after he goes somewhere else. We haven’t tried putting him in the litter box because of his socialization issues. What can we do?
Socialization: When we first brought him home, he hid behind the bookcase for a while. We left him alone at first and intended to just let him come to us when he was ready. He’s made lots of progress here and seems pretty comfortable walking around the apartment. In fact he will come walk all over meet and as I’ve been writing this post he’s been crawling all over the computer screen, but still when I try to touch him he runs away and hisses. And he’ll run away if you walk to close to him as well. I don’t know if leaving him alone is really an option anymore either because he got a cold and I have to at least give him meds.
I think that about covers it. Sorry that it’s so long! PLEASE HELP!!
p.s. On the bright side he’s adorable and eats well!