Good Morning Moo-Mites
I have been instructed by HRH Princess Pretty Paws that I should give you all an update on her progress so far.
Things are moving slowly, but steadily, in a positive direction. She is still very attached to her two spots under the bed. When she is feeling very shy / unsure, she heads to the spot at the back but when she is more relaxed her sleep pad at the front is occupied.
Due to living in a terraced house I have a bit more 'neighbourly noise' than Moo was previously used to and she is having to adjust to that. Whilst the neighbours are not 'noisy' there is a 9yr old boy who can be loud on occasions and this does tend to spook her a bit. However, I am noticing that she is slowly getting used to it so it shouldn't be too long before she realises there is nothing to worry about.
I would now say that on 8/10 occasions she will come out from her hiding place quite willingly to be loved and fussed. Sometimes though, she still needs a little bit of 'brush' persuasion.
Yesterday, for the first time, the door of her safe room was left open and Moo had the run of the upstairs area. The Posse were all safely on the other side of the stairs door. Whilst she has shown a bit of curiosity about what is on the other side of the door, I think she was still a bit scared to actually come out. She will continue to have this extra freedom and hopefully, by the time we get to the weekend, she will have explored and feel more confident.
We did, however, have quite a bit of a breakthrough though in the confidence levels last night and this morning.
I went up to bed (I'm sleeping in with her at the moment) last night and was reading my book when she joined me up on the bed. After lots of purrs and head-butts she settled down and I was lying with my book in my left hand and a cat curled around my right arm. Turning the pages with one hand was quite a challenge.........
When it came to sleep time though, she headed off, as usual, to her little pad under the bed. So you can imagine my great surprise when I woke up through the night and found her lying back up beside me!!!! That was lovely.
The joyous moment this morning was when she started to play with the toys in the room of her own free will and with absolutely NO encouragement from myself. I was still in bed at the time!!!
Firstly, her yellow banana was 'killed', she then did a David Beckham impression by battering the noisy tinkly ball all around the room (on a wooden floor at 6am btw...........:glare and, as I left to go for my shower, she was letting the Orange Cube know that its days were numbered!!!! :thumbup: :thumbup:
Now I might be wrong, but I would say that the playing is a very good positive sign.
So that is where we are at right now. We are in no rush to start trying to integrate just yet - we'll see how the land lies by the weekend. Moo has met McGee a couple of time now; the latest, on Monday, had them both exchanging a few, low-key hisses at each other but him being more interested in smelling around her room than actually bothering with her. In fact, the wee toe-rag hissed at ME when I put him back out again!!!! :nono:
And there you have it. I hope all of this info is enough to keep you all going until the next update.
The Princess thanks you all for your continuing good wishes and wants you to know that she fully appreciates each and every one of them.
xxxxxx
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I have been instructed by HRH Princess Pretty Paws that I should give you all an update on her progress so far.
Things are moving slowly, but steadily, in a positive direction. She is still very attached to her two spots under the bed. When she is feeling very shy / unsure, she heads to the spot at the back but when she is more relaxed her sleep pad at the front is occupied.
Due to living in a terraced house I have a bit more 'neighbourly noise' than Moo was previously used to and she is having to adjust to that. Whilst the neighbours are not 'noisy' there is a 9yr old boy who can be loud on occasions and this does tend to spook her a bit. However, I am noticing that she is slowly getting used to it so it shouldn't be too long before she realises there is nothing to worry about.
I would now say that on 8/10 occasions she will come out from her hiding place quite willingly to be loved and fussed. Sometimes though, she still needs a little bit of 'brush' persuasion.
Yesterday, for the first time, the door of her safe room was left open and Moo had the run of the upstairs area. The Posse were all safely on the other side of the stairs door. Whilst she has shown a bit of curiosity about what is on the other side of the door, I think she was still a bit scared to actually come out. She will continue to have this extra freedom and hopefully, by the time we get to the weekend, she will have explored and feel more confident.
We did, however, have quite a bit of a breakthrough though in the confidence levels last night and this morning.
I went up to bed (I'm sleeping in with her at the moment) last night and was reading my book when she joined me up on the bed. After lots of purrs and head-butts she settled down and I was lying with my book in my left hand and a cat curled around my right arm. Turning the pages with one hand was quite a challenge.........
When it came to sleep time though, she headed off, as usual, to her little pad under the bed. So you can imagine my great surprise when I woke up through the night and found her lying back up beside me!!!! That was lovely.
The joyous moment this morning was when she started to play with the toys in the room of her own free will and with absolutely NO encouragement from myself. I was still in bed at the time!!!
Firstly, her yellow banana was 'killed', she then did a David Beckham impression by battering the noisy tinkly ball all around the room (on a wooden floor at 6am btw...........:glare and, as I left to go for my shower, she was letting the Orange Cube know that its days were numbered!!!! :thumbup: :thumbup:
Now I might be wrong, but I would say that the playing is a very good positive sign.
So that is where we are at right now. We are in no rush to start trying to integrate just yet - we'll see how the land lies by the weekend. Moo has met McGee a couple of time now; the latest, on Monday, had them both exchanging a few, low-key hisses at each other but him being more interested in smelling around her room than actually bothering with her. In fact, the wee toe-rag hissed at ME when I put him back out again!!!! :nono:
And there you have it. I hope all of this info is enough to keep you all going until the next update.
The Princess thanks you all for your continuing good wishes and wants you to know that she fully appreciates each and every one of them.
xxxxxx
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