I just don’t know what to do. She can be impossible. Anything she doesn’t want to do, which is everything important she should be trained to do, she just pouts about. It is so impossible to get her to do things. Sometimes she’ll do things for really good treats like meat, but that’s bad for her & made her constipated. I just feel like I’m failing with her and it really stresses me out. Why can’t our family just get a docile and obedient dog for once? Ugh. She’s very cute and she adores me but I swear she’s going to give me grey hairs…any tips…
On top of this I’ve been extremely stressed lately over a wide variety of life things and I’ve been noticing my warning signs of going back into a depressive episode again. Lovely.
Well giving her up is probably not going to happen.
When I lived by myself my two sisters got me a cat for my birthday. We got him at Petco. Petco has a program in which they have someone raise kittens in their own homes and then when they reach a certain age this person will bring several or more cats to Petco and sell them.
An animal organization runs the whole thing. But that’s where we got my cat. The cat was about seven months old, was clean and free of disease, had all it’s shots and had a microchip implanted (no, he was not a schizophrenic cat) so in case he got lost anyone who found him could call the number on his tags and return it and they could trace him back to me.
But the beauty of buying a somewhat older cat as opposed to a kitten is that by 6 or 7 or 8 months he still had that kitten cuteness but his personality and his traits, and his temperament was already established so you know what you’re getting into. A kitten is a hit & miss, you don’t know exactly what your in store for.
But my cat was so mellow and calm. My most important criteria for a cat is that he not be afraid of me or other people. I’ve seen so many people who have cats who run and hide or bolt out of the room when someone visits. And some cats are like that with their own owners. To me that defeats the whole purpose of having a cat. I want a cat who I can pick up and pet or can sit calmly next to when I’m eating and I can reach down and pet him anytime until he purrs.
My cat Milo 90% of the time was not afraid of strangers. If I got a visitor Milo could just calmly sit in the middle of my living room and hardly even blink. He let strangers pet him too. The lady who raised him had told me most of this before I took him home. He was a sweet cat with a good desposition and a good companion. He had few bad habits.
Oh my goodness I’d never give her up ever. I’m not that kind of person. When I get an animal I am making a dedication to that animal and they are family. She may be driving me crazy but she is my baby and my family now. I just need help and am at a roadblock. After some reading, I think I just need to keep looking for good treats to better motivate her. Definitely taking her to obedience training once she gets vaccinated…
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