cats are now just over a year old. once they had both recovered from spaying we started letting them outside. the cat flap is microchip operated but for the first few months we just unlocked it manually for set times and didn't use the microchip recognition aspect. we have now programmed it to recognise the cats and set it to let them out during the daytime but keep them indoors at night.
one cat is totally fine and it's business as usual but the other cat is totally spooked by the new regime. she doesn't like the click that the cat flap makes when it recognises her chip, so she approaches the cat flap and it clicks and she backs away. she can be coaxed through and goes out into the garden sometimes with a lot of encouragement, but then will hang around outside looking sad. if it's a meal time she might attempt to come in but will again get spooked and run off, and may eventually with a lot of calling and coaxing eventually tries again and gets through eventually.
just wondering if anyone has experience of a cat being like this at first and eventually learning not to be scared, or should we assume that she will always react like this and won't change?