We adopted our gorgeous ginger tom from the RSPCA three weeks ago - he is our first cat.
He seems very happy by day (although we haven't let him out yet and he's looking wistfully at the garden...). He plays with his toys, comes up and rubs against our legs and lets us stroke him.
At night the kids leave their doors open so he can go and sleep at the bottom of one of their beds. However he seems to want to be with us - he mews loudly outside our door in the early hours and demands attention! We have got up a few times to see if he's ok, and he's quite 'bitey' with our legs/ankles (which he isn't by day).
He has dried food out all the time although prefers wet, so perhaps he's just impatient for us to get up and feed him? It's affecting my sleep though (even with ear plugs in) and I'm also worried that he's unhappy or bored.
Is this normal? I wonder if it might improve once we start letting him out?
Also, we're meant to be going away for a week on 9th August (trip was booked ages ago...). I'm not sure whether putting him in a cattery at this point is really going to really stress him out?
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CurrerBell · 16/07/2014 14:13
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