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I called to confirm picking up Melbcat tomorrow, she's been such a good cat. I'm going to get the cold shoulder for abandoning her when she gets home though :(
She will pointedly ignore you while endeavouring to be as near to you as possible at all times.
You know, just so she can judge the efficacy of her ignoring you
That's exactly what she does. Animals absolutely have feelings
it's actually not even butthurt - cats are used to having each other randomly disappear then reappear like nbd. The making obsessively sure they're near you is the enthusiastic welcome back jumping and facelicks of the cat world.
She does it after every time we're separated :( Refuses to look at me, doesn't want to be patted. When normally she's a velcro cat
she doesn't' want you to know the things she had to do while inside The Joint. The pets she took for kibble! The laps she sat in to survive!
Oh baby girl is social and crawls into laps for fun. She rolls over for belly rubs with people she knows, and in her old home she used to sit on the low wall and get pats and chats from passersby. She's not fooling me!
Or you're going to get extra cuddles and cat snuggles when you pick her up.
I hope so
She still might not be feeling 100% so don't take that as rejection or being cross at you. She will need so many cuddles
and don't ever feel guilty for looking after her, sometimes doing the right thing is hard, doesn't make it less right
I hope it's just being a bit shaken and readjusting. I hated doing that but knew it could be a long wait, and I needed to make sure she was properly looked after if I was unexpectedly longer in the hospital.