“Holly” for short, who is currently hiding behind our futon. She’s with us on a two-week trial basis to ensure she and our existing kitty get along.
Holiday came to us from a foster family via the Lost Dog & Cat Rescue Foundation, which obtained her from an organization out in the Blue Ridge area. Nobody’s quite sure about her age but she is approximately 6 years old and on the small side. Word is, she had a hard life on the streets after getting loose as a kitten; no idea if accidental or intentional. She has marks on her neck as of she was in a collar for too long.
Will have more images when she starts venturing around.
However – even if there is hostility, don’t panic. I have multiple times known cats to become great friends despite major hostility when they first met, and sometimes for some time thereafter.
Sure is a quiet little girl. The fosters think she has significant hearing loss and/or is simply not fazed by anything; will have to get that checked on her first visit to our vet next week.
Even totally deaf cats manage just fine. (As you may well know.)
– it can sometimes confound the others. I took in a cat once who had gone deaf. I have a sort of two-level cat feeding arrangement: a table, and next to it part of the top of a cupboard, which is significantly higher from the table. Shortly after he arrived, he was eating on the lower table, and one of the other cats was on top of the cupboard – swearing her head off at him from the high ground.
He ignored her entirely. She thought he was so massively dominant that he didn’t care what she said to him, even though she was in a position to attack him from above. But he was ignoring her because he couldn’t hear a thing she was saying.
It gave him a huge advantage in cat fights: much of cat fighting is decided during the vocal challenge. He could and did vocalize just fine; but he apparently thought the other cat was afraid to say anything.
