In order to entice a cat to your side, you have to be patient and let it come to you. If your moves are too sudden, too quick, or too aggressive, you will send the cat fleeing from your side and into hiding. Cats have to be encouraged. They let you know when it’s okay to touch them by rubbing up against you, or coming over to sit in your lap. If you don’t hold the cat properly or pet it the wrong way, it will leave. Once that happens, it becomes twice as hard to coax it back to you.
