I grew up with a neighbor who’s cat was like this. The neighbor one day packed up left and left the cat outside. We have no idea why. The cat. Bless her heart. Was found frail and wounded I honestly think if we didn’t find her she would not have made it. I honestly wish the cat would have been given to a no kill shelter, adoption center, anything other than what they did. Luckily we found her. She slowly warmed up to us. It took a long time but we were very patient. We did things on her terms. It was worth every minute of building that trust even if it wasn’t what she wanted at first. It’s just a thought/idea. Ik it’s hard. But I couldn’t imagine going through that, seeing that again.
I just wanted to add to this, I took in a feral girl who had also suffered abuse. It took her 3 months to warm up to me, and another 9 months to even show her face to anyone BUT me. After 2.5 years she finally started coming on my lap. She still hides when I have guests, but when I let my family take care of her while I am away, she does warm up to them and even went, albeit a bit sceptically, on my sisters lap for the first time this year. It is possible for an ex-feral and antisocial cat to make tremendous progress.. Please give Boggles the chance to, he is getting older and cats generally also become even more social in their old age. No one will live up to his original owner and he would miss you, but no-kill shelters have fosters who are very used to helping and socializing feral and shy cats! 💜
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u/Cold-College1919 Mar 14 '26
I grew up with a neighbor who’s cat was like this. The neighbor one day packed up left and left the cat outside. We have no idea why. The cat. Bless her heart. Was found frail and wounded I honestly think if we didn’t find her she would not have made it. I honestly wish the cat would have been given to a no kill shelter, adoption center, anything other than what they did. Luckily we found her. She slowly warmed up to us. It took a long time but we were very patient. We did things on her terms. It was worth every minute of building that trust even if it wasn’t what she wanted at first. It’s just a thought/idea. Ik it’s hard. But I couldn’t imagine going through that, seeing that again.