u/autumnclaire903

i hope you guys like it! i’m so proud of her

Hi all! We rescued this lovely lady (Pearl) from a colony back in December 2025. I posted about her when she first had access to the house outside her enclosure because she wasn’t eating or using the litter but she’s doing wonderfully now!

I wanted to ask to see if anyone knew whether these are happy or stressed purrs from her. She rarely ever leaves her cat tree and will run from anyone/anything if she’s wandering. She doesn’t approach people or our other cats and chooses not to interact with them.

However when we come to pet her in the tree, she seems happy with her purrs. I’ll sometimes take her out of the cube and hold her on my shoulder, which she allows and will stay still and purr. If I sit down, though, she’ll jump off and sprint away to go back to her cube. I’m just getting mixed signals with her purring but then avoiding everyone.

Is she actually just stressed out and I’m making it worse?