Cat with anxiety, maybe previously abused

Cats take a long time to adjust.

I've had my cat for 6 years since it was a wee little kitten. first two years it wouldn't so much as walk over my leg. He would jump over me to get to the foot of my bed to sleep. The next two years he started to get more comfortable with it. Pressing his paw on my leg or belly making sure the footing was right before quickly walking over me. Now at 6 years in the last 4 or 5 months he will walk on me and once in a blue moon lay down on me.

With cats, trust just takes a really long time to build. Short of playing with the cat everyday, and feeding it next to you there isn't much else you can do. A cat like that can destroy years of built up trust instantly just by you accidentally stepping on it's tail.

People always jump to the conclusion of abuse, but in reality plenty of cats are like this because they were simply undersocialized as kittens. Probably spent a significant portion of their most impressionable years as ferals.

>>2408262
Er, not years - weeks.

>>2408262
More like their 70 IQ previous owners think cats can be trained in the same manner as dogs and stuck it's nose into the carpet where it pee'd then slapped it like a dumb cunt.

>>2408268
doing that to dogs also teaches them nothing whatsoever except to fear you.

>>2408270
fear or not it works with dogs. It doesn't with cats.