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Guest Cat Returns
Jan. 5th, 2010 10:47 amJared & Melody visited on Sunday. Their main purpose was to drop off Guest Cat, Tai Chi, who I will be catsitting for the next week.
We also hung out for several hours. We'd considered doing something, like hiking or gaming, but between the Trauma of leaving Tai Chi and the fact that 3 of the 4 of us were feeling a bit under the weather, we ended up mostly talking and a bit of shopping and that was it for the day.
We exchanged some Christmas presents too & Jared and Melody were nice enough to get me a book on hiking in the area, so maybe I'll have a better handle on some local hiking areas next time they're here.
Tai Chi has now been here for two days, and I feel like our relationship is a bit more adversarial than it was before.
Each time he's visited we've started out quarantining him in my office, then slowly let him roam more. On his first visit, he never did more than make 30-45 minute sojourns from his safe zone, but the second time he roamed freely and was even left out at night for the last day or two.
This time, we figured the integration might be a little easier, because the second time was easier than the first. (The cats actually seemed to remember something after a six-month break, which I wasn't sure would be the case, but Tai Chi was both braver and Lucy was less aggressive.) But we still knew that we'd need to have Tai Chi in isolation for at least a day, maybe more.
The answer is really, "maybe more", but Tai Chi really doesn't want to be cooped up in the back two rooms of the house. Unfortunately after he's been out for a bit, and had the other cats all growling at him, he gets all growly too, but still doesn't want back in the office. Fortunately Melody left "benito flakes" which are so desirable that I can tempt him back into the office with them, like the Pied Piper of Fish Scales.
Hopefully things will calm down. If not, Tai Chi will just be back in the office more than he likes.
Work has been a bit frustrating too, because a few last-minute bugs stopped the release of Money! I think I found the last major one, at about 10pm last night (after setting it aside for a few hours). If so I can finally get it into the queue at Apple today ...
We also hung out for several hours. We'd considered doing something, like hiking or gaming, but between the Trauma of leaving Tai Chi and the fact that 3 of the 4 of us were feeling a bit under the weather, we ended up mostly talking and a bit of shopping and that was it for the day.
We exchanged some Christmas presents too & Jared and Melody were nice enough to get me a book on hiking in the area, so maybe I'll have a better handle on some local hiking areas next time they're here.
Tai Chi has now been here for two days, and I feel like our relationship is a bit more adversarial than it was before.
Each time he's visited we've started out quarantining him in my office, then slowly let him roam more. On his first visit, he never did more than make 30-45 minute sojourns from his safe zone, but the second time he roamed freely and was even left out at night for the last day or two.
This time, we figured the integration might be a little easier, because the second time was easier than the first. (The cats actually seemed to remember something after a six-month break, which I wasn't sure would be the case, but Tai Chi was both braver and Lucy was less aggressive.) But we still knew that we'd need to have Tai Chi in isolation for at least a day, maybe more.
The answer is really, "maybe more", but Tai Chi really doesn't want to be cooped up in the back two rooms of the house. Unfortunately after he's been out for a bit, and had the other cats all growling at him, he gets all growly too, but still doesn't want back in the office. Fortunately Melody left "benito flakes" which are so desirable that I can tempt him back into the office with them, like the Pied Piper of Fish Scales.
Hopefully things will calm down. If not, Tai Chi will just be back in the office more than he likes.
Work has been a bit frustrating too, because a few last-minute bugs stopped the release of Money! I think I found the last major one, at about 10pm last night (after setting it aside for a few hours). If so I can finally get it into the queue at Apple today ...