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Conference misery::feline_v1

Title:Meower Power is Valuing Differences
Notice:FELINE_V1 is moving 1/11/94 5pm PST to MISERY
Moderator:MISERY::VANZUYLEN_RO
Created:Sun Feb 09 1986
Last Modified:Tue Jan 11 1994
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:5089
Total number of notes:60366

4182.0. "Still Scared????" by BOSOX::JRYAN () Thu Nov 15 1990 08:49

    Has anyone been through this???
    
    I have a 3 year old white angora cat.  Over the summer we got
    a puppy.  Nilla didn't get along with the pup that well so we
    kept them separated.
       
       This past week we found the pup a nice home ( he was too much
    for the apartment)  But Nilla is still scared to come out to the
    livingroom (thats where the pup was kept)  I bring her out and
    she fights me all the way and the minute I put her down she runs
    back down the hallway.  I even tried feeding her in the livingroom
    trying to get her used to being in there.
    
    How long will it take before my kitten will come back to the
    "land of the living".  I hate seeing her hiding under the bed
    all the time.
    
    Any suggestion on how to coax her out?
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4182.1NRADM::ROBINSONdid i tell you this already???Thu Nov 15 1990 10:527
    
    	I'm sure the living room still smells like puppy to
    	her!! Maybe a good airing out will help some...Or
    	entice her to chase a toy into the living room, maybe
    	she be in it before she notices...It will just take 
    	time, cats have a strong sense of smell...
    
4182.2Do it slowly....... gain confidenceUSMFG::NROSTANZOThu Nov 15 1990 12:1713
    
    Try the feeding, but don't make her give up her security totally
    to go eat on the other side of the room or anything.  Try right
    over the doorway, so she can face the room where she THINKS the
    doggie still lives, and she can watch to see if he is going to come
    toward her.... gradually move her further into the room to eat and
    she will see for herself ther is NO puppy there!   Good idea about
    the scent.... cats have a good sense of dogs... she probably smells
    him... try the rug freshner, or odor type sprays especially in the
    entryway.   Gain her confidence back...
    
    Good luck! 
    
4182.3AIMHI::OFFENThu Nov 15 1990 16:507
    CATNIP ?????
    
    My cats go crazy over it.  Try putting it near the entrance to the
    room.
    
    Sandi