Gabriel Snoozing: The Socialisation of a Semi-feral Cat

Another photo of my semi-feral rescue cat who I am fostering. He is snoozing and becoming domesticated.

Gabriel Sleeping
Gabriel Sleeping

I have cared for him for about 6 days. He hid under the sideboard for about 3 days when I first got him (except for eating food at night). He has come on well.

A major advantage I have is that I am retired so I have all the time in the world – except for work in the site and the usual household chores – to socialize him.

22 thoughts on “Gabriel Snoozing: The Socialisation of a Semi-feral Cat”

  1. The author of the best comment will receive an Amazon gift of their choice at Christmas! Please comment as they can add to the article and pass on your valuable experience.
    • He is growing up fast. I have a special recipe 😉 LOL. The rescue agency provide dry cat food mainly but I add my own to it and he mainly eats the highest quality wet cat food I can find.

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  2. He’s gorgeous and he looks so relaxed and trusting lying on your lap, I think it would be a huge emotional wrench for both of you if you did decide to part, I don’t think it would mean you were a failure at fostering, just that you’d met your match 😉 you haven’t just socialised him, you have really connected to each other, I think it is love! To foster here our CP only requires a spare room for the cat to live in, it’s not the same obviously as a cat having the run of your home and your time all to himself but maybe if you do decide to keep Gabriel you could change to being a short term or emergency fosterer (if you have a spare room)

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  3. Michael you have done wonders with Gabriel, for him to trust you so soon is nothing short of amazing. That photo of how relaxed he is, says it all! I don’t think you will ever be able to part with him and if I was you I wouldn’t even try. You are a match made in Heaven, you love and need each other. It takes a real man like you and Ahsan to admit to being soft hearted about cats!

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    • I just love him. The other day I thought I had lost him. I was completely distraught. I even went outside to find him. It proved to me how much I cared.

      I thought he had got out even though it seems impossible to get out. I couldn’t find him in the flat. Checked everywhere (I thought). Then I found him. I have a bed with storage space underneath. The whole bed lifts up pneumatically. There is no access to the space – except for a kitten 😉 He had found a small opening.

      So it may well be that my fostering days are numbered.

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