Isn’t it the best feeling when your nervous cat chooses to curl up on your knee?

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She’s the sweetest little thing, found feral on a farm with her brother (a big head bumping softie who never stops meowing). She likes a little tickle on her head but otherwise keeps to herself. She’s very gentle. She never ever ever sits on or near anyone. Until now! I daren't move a muscle or she’ll scarper!

That's lovely she's very pretty!

Yes, when nervous cats become affectionate it is just the best thing. Don't move a muscle!

Awww how lovely

We’ve had ours a year and she sat on my knee for the first time last week. She is also getting quite keen on headbumps and walking all over you purring.

She slept on a dc bed for the first time recently too, she normally sits on guard downstairs all night.

Not feral, an ex breeding queen who had had two or three litters by 18m, kept in a pen on her own before being dumped at rescue.

She is utterly beautiful and a very “fashionable” colour so I bet her kittens sold easily to those just buying a pet with no thought to welfare. She’s the sweetest thing.

She lasted about 5 minutes bless her. She’s back in her bed on a chair under the kitchen table now. Progress though. We’ve had her a year too.

Ah bless her, so cute.

Mine won't sit on my lap, but he will get in bed and snuggle against my back when I go to sleep. It's taken twelve years to get to that!

Had mine 4 years, assume she was badly mistreated before we got her. She won't come to me indoors or out. If I move towards her she ups and runs BUT she does sleep in a basket on the other half of my double bed.

Aw, she’s lovely! That’s such a big step for her to have taken, too. You soon won’t be able to move for lap-cat at this rate.

Awe, that's really sweet!! I know exactly what you mean, and that's good progress though!

Oh that's sweet.
I have a rescue cat. Always affectionate but not a lap cat, couldn't be picked up.
It took a couple of years. One day I was sat in the garden and she jumped up on my lap! Couldn't stop her after that! Total softy and has ruined many a pair of my trousers.
We've had her 14 years now and just recently she's let me pick her up and she's started purring!

I cried when my nervous cat went to my friend that had come to do reiki on her. She has never gone to anyone else except me.

I found her dumped in the road going through a wood late at night as an 8 week old kitten. She's my little girl and I l9ve her to bits (May have had a glass of whiskey so a bit emotional...)

I picked up a little black feral cat who had been injured by a dog. Took her to a vet for treatment. She actually wasn't a bit feral and not shy either (and a total tart around men!!!). I put her in a box by my bed because she kept crying when left downstairs. She wasn't having it, despite injured leg, she was trying to get up on my bed so that it where she went most nights, until she went all goo goo eyes on my younger brother and spent most nights on his bed!