I’m pretty sure I picked the cat model, not the seal, but it seems like it’s missing some parts?.. Has anyone had this happen? Did I assemble it correctly? My instructions didn’t have all the pages.
So I adopted a 1yo cat from a shelter 3.5 weeks ago. A bit of her background - she was found on the streets in another country around September 2025, she was about 4 months old, then she got adopted in January, then returned back to the shelter 3 days later with both back legs broken. She got taken to the vet, she’s scared of everything, so she jumped around and broke her legs while falling down from 2m multiple times. She had surgery, all went well, and then I adopted her in the end of May.
She had to be transported to me, so after 2 days of journey I picked her up, and on our way home during one of the stops I wanted to clean her carrier a bit (it smelled), she got out of it, was nice and quiet (I should have put her back in the carrier, it was 1am, my brain was a mash), but then something scared her (maybe another car coming, I don’t know), she bit and scratched me that I had to get antibiotics because few scratches on my fingers got infected… I’m saying it in case it matters still.
The last 3.5 weeks were a slow progress, I still keep her in the spare bedroom, because she still seems a bit stressed when I open the door to the hall and another bedroom, but she uses her litter with me in the room if needed, she ate literally right next to me yesterday, she sniffs my feet and hands, she’s happy to play with me, doesn’t run to hide when I move or stand up, just doesn’t like when I come close myself and definitely nowhere near to accept the touch.
Yesterday we were playing as always, I used the stick with a ball on a string, she brushed her cheek off the other end of the stick, and I did it myself too, she seemed fine, then started moving to my hand and raising her paw, I backed off, then again in a minute I decided to let her touch me, and she scratched me. She did break the skin, but no blood. Also over the last week or two she ones touched my toe with a claw, and once tried to play with a slipped on my foot (similar texture to her ball). I hope she was just playful and used her claws?
She tried to raise her paw while sniffing my feet today but I got scared and moved them, so that scared her and she jumped back.
Should I be worried about it? Should I start doing something with it at all? Was she just still playing? I definitely don’t want to be scratched all the time. She also had very limited interaction with humans, but on the video shelter sent before sending her to me she was fine when someone was holding her, but I also think they gave her something to calm her down before the long trip.
She’s a cutie and fabulous (when not using her claws).