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SUCCESS! This morning he played with a mouse on a pole. He was doing his usual not taking any notice but then suddenly pawed it! He played tentitively for about 5 minutes. I think it's definitely nervousness that was/is stopping him as he's been much braver generally in the past day or so. Now I jus...

Thanks everyone for your very interesting thoughts. The thing about not wasting energy makes a lot of sense. He definitely has that desperation to eat thing going on when I give him his food. He responds to catnip so today I put a shoelace in the catnip. The only interest he showed was when the lace...

I adopted a cat 4 days ago. He is about 2 years old and has been a stray for at least 4 months. He is real sweetie and although he is still a little nervous of his new environment, he is very reassured by us (2 adults, 2 children) and has sat on our laps many times over the past few days which is lo...