Are cats more affectionate when recovering from something?
Or maybe its because he is an outdoor cat. Anyway, I've been feeding and gaining the trust of 4 feral cats for over a year, since they were kittens. Prior to this, I had no care experience with cats, as all my pets have been dogs. I was able to gain their trust enough to pet all of them and pick up 3 of them (the other is a VERY flighty and sassy calico, so I rarely try to pick her up).
The other day one of them had half of his tail entirely degloved down to the bone. We don't know from what, but luckily the vets said it was a clean wound and not a bunch of torn ligaments. 961
They amputated it and told us to keep him in doors, which we were hesitant about as our home is not cat proof, but decided to keep him in a bathroom as I've seen people on YT do with newly adopted cats.
He usually is not that affectionate. Yes, he will let us pet him and likes his neck scratched but he doesn't seek us out that often. But as of now (its only been 2 or 3 days), he is on constant purr mode when I enter the room, pacing back and forth to get me to scratch his butt or neck. He also rolls over on the floor, like his brother (the most affectionate of them) does when telling us "oh get this spot here" (he is very spoiled lmao). This morning he climbed into my lap and laid down to go to sleep. When I tried with any of them before to put them in my lap, they'd immediately jump down.
So is this normal? 311