MAJOR mood change in my cat after she came home.

[Mutwa]

in reply to both your comments:

DriftyAlison: yes she is spayed, she was done after she had her kittens.

Tokolosh: This is exactly what i am worried about, now i hate to admit i dont live in one of the nicest areas of england and most of the people around here lack certain morales. what you have described here is basially what i think has happened, children on this estate have even run in our house chasing Tifa before and were trying to chase her and pick her up when she was pregnant. we have told them and the parents multiple times and they couldnt care less. im basically scared to let her outside.

[Karen]

Just don't let her outside any more at all. She will get used to it, and will be better off in the long run.

[krazyaboutkatz]

Just don't let her outside any more at all. She will get used to it, and will be better off in the long run.

I agree. It may take her a while to get used to being an indoor only cat but she'll be much safer and will most likely live much longer too. If you must let her out then try putting her on a harness. Then maybe you can train her to walk with you and then she'll remain safe. Good luck.

[tokolosh]

in reply to both your comments:

DriftyAlison: yes she is spayed, she was done after she had her kittens.

Tokolosh: This is exactly what i am worried about, now i hate to admit i dont live in one of the nicest areas of england and most of the people around here lack certain morales. what you have described here is basially what i think has happened

Trust me, it has nothing to do with 'nice' Unless England is very different from Canada, which I doubt in this respect since they're both full of human beings. I lived/had my son in daycares and schools all over the socioeconomic map, not counting his travels for sport purposes. The nicely-raised kids in the super-expensive daycare that cost twice what I was paying in rent were no better educated on this than the 'rough' ones he got to know a year later at his elementary school in our inner city. If anything, my brief read on them was the bad ones were worse because their parents were more smug about their kids never doing anything wrong. Like Valiant says, most people are just lekker zef.

The main thing is, your vet knows she wasn't permanently hurt. Shaken and scared and probably righteously hacked off about it, but nothing damaged physically. It's just too bad this should happen to a cat who was already shy with people. But in time maybe she'll learn all over again that you guys aren't them, and you're safe.