Thread: Sully has arrived home!

Having never had problems with a new kitten coming into the house & straight away playing & eating etc I had a dizzy fit when Ruby didn't fit the bill,hid up,didn't eat for two days,didn't use the tray,the next morning I was ready to pack her off back to my breeder friend but that morning did get her to play with the big furries two of which took over her 24hr care by making sure she was never left alone & the next day it was a case of bring it on feed me first please & as much as you can get in the dish will be fine thank you & as soon as she had used the tray normal life resumed in the household.......
Sully will be fine you will make sure of that & a lot of us have been there & got the T shirt,you just feel so sorry for this little mite that has left mum & siblings don't you but bet you will soon be posting what he is getting up too.....just luv him......xxx

What a handsome kitty Sully is. My Whiskey didn't appear to eat, drink, or even poo in his litter box for the first 3 days that we brought him home. He wasn't shy and did not hide. He played extremely hard and slept just as hard. He would cuddle up to us to sleep as he is the only pet in our home. We worried about him not eating & drinking, but after the three initial days he was just fine.

Good luck with your new fur baby.

Thanks for the encouragement about other kittens not eating for a couple of days. This morning he's a lot more adventurous and is noodling around the two rooms I'm restricting him to initially. Abbie is more scared of him than he is of her - the opposite of what I expected from the Burmese Nowty Cat(tm). Bob is such a laid-back guy that he's let Sully sniff him all over without any sudden moves or anger. God, I'll miss that boy when the liver cancer gets him.
Sully is definitely the new House Champion at Hide and Seek. I'm sure that he can teleport. He wanders into an area and then he's just gone and emerges from the other end of the house ten minutes later. He's discovered cubby holes and hiding places that couldn't possibly hide a cat. Inside the back of my guitar amp was a good one which I only found after 15mins of searching for him and worrying that he'd nipped outside without me noticing when I let another one in or out.
He's just had a wee which is encouraging, eaten another two bites of food and sipped a bit of water. The course of today will hopefully see him settle in, stop hiding so much and start to eat properly.
Thanks folks, I feel much happier about his progress now.
Mark.

Sully is beautiful. Glad that he's settling in. Didn't have these issues when my boy was a kitten, but all MCs are different and as the others say he's probably taking just a bit longer to adjust to his new home and siblings x

Day two. Sully must have had a peaceful night because I never heard one squeak. He emerged from behind the sofa when I came downstairs and has been a lot more visible today. He's been playing with toys and has finally eaten properly. He's still tending to hide between explores and playing but he seems much more expressive today. Abigail has even come into the lounge and lingered when yesterday she would only shoot through after a wary look around for the interloper.
So, small steps but he's starting to emerge as the fun little fellow I thought he'd be.
And my Gosh, is he handsome. I think he's the cutest thing since kitten puss in boots in that Shrek movie.

Hi Englishman,

I am glad that Sully is settling in I have fostered many cats and I have had cats that will jump out of the carrier and say hello and then just wonder round the house without a care. Then I have had the cats which will hide, not eat and stay well away from you lol. I have had 2 cats that pretty much hid from me for a month, they did eat and use the litter which was good but it was upsetting a little to see they just wanted to hide from me :( But in that month I started playing with them and talking to them constantly, they came out of their shells and were the most cuddly things ever lol. So my philosophy is to just leave them be for the first week and then start to interact with them and they will eventually come out of their shell. I hope I don't have to do that with the 2 MC's I am getting in Feb but I am more than prepared for it and am happy I know what to do to draw them out.

Day three and Sully is coming out of his shell. He'd still rather hide than interact, but he did come out and lie on a cushion next to me while I was playing videogames, with his paw on my leg. He's had a lot of visitors and admirers come over to say hello, and with a bit of cat-toy fishing has come out to play every time. Bob is great with him, and Abby is still scared of him, but she'll at least move through a room with him in it, though quickly and after a good scout.
He's eating much more normally, has peed and pooed in the litter tray. When he's eaten, he gets really energetic like a bunny on whizz.
He's such a little superstar.
He went upstairs this evening and freaked himself out when he saw himself in the floor length mirror in the bathroom. Much dashing around and falling over until he found the stairs to go back down to behind his favourite couch.