Hello! I am an English teacher in China. I have never owned anything but birds before, and I was very excited to get a cat. I looked at quite a few before I chose this one: she's a beautiful little thing, a deep orange with pale stripes, bright blue eyes, and very talkative! She's around 2-3 months old. I still haven't named her yet!
I brought her home on Monday. She was very inquisitive, investigated my apartment, talked a whole lot, ate up a storm and fell asleep on my bed. She let me pick her up, licked my fingers (no biting!) and was a sweetheart.
But with each passing day, she becomes more hyper and less responsive to being picked up. If I bend down to pet her, she runs away at full speed. She doesn't growl or flatten her ears, so maybe she is just playing, but I'm not sure what that means! Luckily she is still very good about not biting my fingers, but she only has two modes now: super hyper or sleeping. When she is tired is the only time she will let me pet her or brush her.
I've tried to be very gentle and I don't hold her too long. But I would like to have an affectionate cat, one I can take with me outside and will be friendly to strangers. How do I socialize her to be this way?
Thank you for your advice!
