When Timmy first came into the rescue he most certainly lived up to his reputation in being this wild child, fiery red head of a cat. In total it took 2 of us 5 hours of trying on and off again to safely transfer him from carrier to crate to start his isolation period and for the next week he kept trying to remind us of who exactly was boss by trying to launch and attack during feeding & tray cleaning times. However once Timmy started to feel settled and realised he was safe and we weren't actually trying to hurt him he very quickly let his guard down showed us just how loving and caring he really was. The launches of attacks very quickly became grabs of the wrists and hands for attention, his meaningful bites became playing gentle ones to also get attention. He became a firm favourite of all the volunteers and a big character within the rescue never ever put a paw out of place again.
I then genuinely believed the only reason this boy was playing up was because he didn't like dogs and where he came from had them, meaning when the dogs or sounds of them annoyed him it was whoever he saw next that got the brunt of it whether that be human or otherwise and that is why is attacks continued on at his home and stopped relatively quickly once he had settled in with us. When it came to the rehoming we did have to have fairly strict guidelines 2 mainly being no children or dogs. However we needed someone who had past experiences of cats with a fiery temperament just to reassure us that should something set him off he still had a chance of keeping his home over being sent back and given up on because he had proved he was capable of so much more and we are so very glad and proud to say we found him a wonderful human and home.
Here are his updates.
Timmys first month:-