Alright guys. I don't know what to do with my Tinkerbell. I've had her for quite a while, adopted her at ten months old and she's almost seven now. She's a sweet thing, flame point Himalayan, and she's incredibly timid and shy. She doesn't like anyone but me and my dad, she's been living with only us for the last four years. But here's the thing, I've been away at college a lot for the last four years, coming home for breaks when I can. She remembers me and comes around me a bit, but when she jumps up on a chair by me or onto my bed, she only stays there for quite literally a few seconds and then jumps back down, that's the extent of our relationship most of the time. But she doesn't do that with my dad. She'll jump right into his lap and sit with him for an hour. I don't treat her any differently than he does other than the fact that I actually groom her. But I don't corner her or force the relationship, I just let her come to me if she wants to and let her leave when she wants. But she's very obviously closer to my dad.
But here's the other thing. I'm graduating in May and will be moving in with a friend and her couple of cats and I was planning on bringing Tink with me because she's my cat. But she's never really been around other animals and she doesn't seem to have the bond with me that she does my dad, even though he's told me he wants her to move with me and doesn't want to keep a cat. But as much as I love her, I don't want to feel like I'm tearing her away from her comfort and traumatizing her. What should I do?
