This really is a minor miracle. Footie was a stray that for at least a year was eating outside from my compost pile and from the area around my home and my neighbors. I managed to trapp her about 10 years ago and she has been with me ever since.
It has been extremely obvious that she does not like women. for the first several years all my relationship with her consisted of her biting, scratching, or hissing at me. I won't pretend that sometimes I just avoided her for my own safety and just made sure she was getting what she needs food wise. My son Boo always had an affinity for animals and it always seemed like he could understand what they were thinking and talk back to them. he wouldn't take no for an answer and we just pick her up and take her places anytime he fancied it. He would get her food and put it in front of her and just keep doing so until she would finally eat it. He would sneak her treats and basically just never left her alone. When my son passed she was clearly devastated and broken. He was pretty much the only one that she let in and now he was gone.
Within a few days she latched on to my ex -he has a very similar personality to Boo so I'm not terribly surprised. However, over time she was willing to let me in to. I am able to pet her most of the time and give her treats without any concerns. Every once in a while she will definitely express her displeasure, but for the most part she does seem to show interest in my giving her attention. She also gets a special wet food treat every morning away from the other cats and she feels so entitled to it these days she yells at me from the kitchen table to get me to hurry and dish it up.
This is the very first time she has gone out of her way to sit or lie down anywhere near me. I would say more than 50% of the time when she's sleeping by herself she's sleeping in a semi defensive posture- it was pretty much 100% of the time when she got here 10 years ago so that is an improvement. I cannot tell you how thrilled I am that she felt comfortable doing this. I absolutely had to take video to remember it because I am not fooled - I can't imagine it will happen very often.
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