Thanks for your long response, Jim. Your apartment sounds like mine; just a bedroom and a living room. No separate room to be hers. Is the kitchen a separate room? (Mine is just an alcove off the living room.) If it is, maybe that could become "her" room.
It sounds like she is friendly in many ways, letting you pick her up and hold her and rub her tummy. If she mostly play-bites and doesn't hurt you, then calmly move your arm or leg or whatever away from her mouth. For some reason she seems to feel quite vulnerable around her hind legs. You need to be as careful as you can not to touch her there, if doing that gets her to bite you hard, especially while you and she are just getting to know each other.
Sounds like a good idea to wear thick socks to bed if she has bitten your toes while you're sleeping!
Does she let you pet her, maybe along her sides and down her back? Does she let you touch her around her head? Many cats enjoy finger-pets around their heads, gentle skritches under the chin and along the jaw and at the base of the ears. The more "nice" things she comes to associate with you, the better!
What do you think your landlord might do if he finds out about her (and I would guess that will happen, sooner or later, depending on things like if some work needs to be done in your apartment)? Do you think he'd be okay if you offered to pay a "pet rent" surcharge? In my apartment complex there is a rent surcharge of $30 per pet, and up to two per apartment are allowed. And of course, keep things as clean as you can, so if (when?) the landlord discovers her, he'll see that she isn't making his property dirty or smelly.
Again, thank you and bless you for rescuing Kitty Face! Keep up the good work, both of you! We're sending all our loving best wishes and warm energies along that things go well.
{{{{{HUGS}}}}} and ~~~~PURRRS~~~~ and from Pat and Sparkler
I meant," said Ipslore bitterly, "what is there in this world that truly makes living worthwhile?"
Death thought about it.
CATS, he said eventually. CATS ARE NICE.
-- Terry Pratchett (1948—2015), Sourcery
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