Another photo of my semi-feral rescue cat who I am fostering. He is snoozing and becoming domesticated.
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.
Thanks for that advice and idea Babz. I’d like to continue fostering if I adopted Gabriel. I have some more pictures… 😉 boring….!
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)
Yes Alan I have to agree and it seems to be a weakness in the foster carer system.
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.
Shut up… 😉 LOL. You understand what is inside my head…
Please Dee 😉 I don’t think I will be able to let him go. Too much love and too connected already.
I need a new dressing gown 😉 It looks grubby but it is not. I put it through the washing machine quite recently….