Woman Spends A Year Getting A Feral Cat To Love Her

The Dodo

Love at first sight is overrated ... watch what happens a year in ❤️

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00:00 You'll be okay.

00:02 Bruce showed up at my doorstep in November of 2021.

00:08 You're so sweet, buddy.

00:10 I saw him over the next couple of months pretty infrequently.

00:15 Look who's here during the day. Hi, baby.

00:22 Then he started coming every day.

00:25 Good morning, buddy.

00:29 I just kept feeding him and I decided to try to socialize him.

00:35 I love you.

00:39 Slowly started feeding him with the door like cracked open.

00:46 There you go.

00:47 It's okay.

00:50 We worked like that, baby steps, you know, until he was able to fully eat inside the house.

00:59 I decided to start feeding him with a spoon.

01:01 From there, we graduated to a glove to try to get him acclimated to my hands.

01:11 It was a long time of him with the glove, trying to introduce some pets

01:20 before trying to trap him.

01:26 He's getting trapped this weekend.

01:28 You are.

01:30 He was too smart to be trapped in conventional ways.

01:34 I decided to fight the bullet and to trap him with my house.

01:42 He didn't love that.

01:47 Oh, buddy.

01:53 You're okay.

01:55 You've got to be kidding me.

01:57 I can't pick you up.

01:59 How am I supposed to get you down from there?

02:01 Oh, boy.

02:03 He was a handful.

02:05 Are you feeling a little less scared?

02:07 But socialization moved pretty quickly once he was inside.

02:13 He was making it very clear that he wanted to be pet.

02:21 But then when I went to actually pet him, he wouldn't let me anywhere near him.

02:31 I talked to the folks at Alley Cat Project that I volunteered with and said, "Hey, what do you think would work for this?"

02:39 So that was when the scratcher really came in.

02:41 It really, really helped get him acclimated to me and to understanding that, you know,

02:47 he was safe.

02:51 Ever since then, it's been totally snowball of love.

03:01 Check this out.

03:03 He watches me from every room.

03:05 Hi, buddy.

03:11 He has become such a baby.

03:13 He wants me to carry him everywhere.

03:17 Sleeps with me in bed every night, which is very sweet, until, you know, 7 a.m. when he's standing on my throat screaming for breakfast.

03:37 I find that I wake up with a smile on my face and I go to bed with a smile on my face.

03:43 [Music]

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