Tai Chi Visiting
Jan. 8th, 2009 11:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shannon_aI have a little bundle of fur visiting me this week:
Tai Chi is my sister Melody's cat. She's visiting the folks in Hawaii, and she really didn't want to leave the cat alone, so I was happy to take him for the week.
For the moment he's being kept isolated back in my office/sun room. We had so much trouble bringing Lucy into the household, that I'm afraid to just let him go free and visit with the other cats. On the other hand, we don't have to worry about screwing things up here: if we did let him roam free and the other cats decided they hated him, it's no big deal.
So, I may try and let the cats mix later in the week, now that he's had a few days to settle. For the moment, they've just seen each other, and our cats (of course) have hissed. Even little Lucy who I thought would be thrilled to see another playmate.
Tai Chi is a cute little cat. He's very talky, always saying hello when I come into the room. He also is very happy to let his displeasure be known verbally. He seems to pace a lot. I think he might feel confined in these two rooms of space, which is one of the reasons I'd love to give him the run of the house if at all possible.
In any case, he seems relatively happy at the moment and comfortable with me. And, unlike the last cat I catsat, I don't have to give him shots every day. Double plus.
Tai Chi is my sister Melody's cat. She's visiting the folks in Hawaii, and she really didn't want to leave the cat alone, so I was happy to take him for the week.
For the moment he's being kept isolated back in my office/sun room. We had so much trouble bringing Lucy into the household, that I'm afraid to just let him go free and visit with the other cats. On the other hand, we don't have to worry about screwing things up here: if we did let him roam free and the other cats decided they hated him, it's no big deal.
So, I may try and let the cats mix later in the week, now that he's had a few days to settle. For the moment, they've just seen each other, and our cats (of course) have hissed. Even little Lucy who I thought would be thrilled to see another playmate.
Tai Chi is a cute little cat. He's very talky, always saying hello when I come into the room. He also is very happy to let his displeasure be known verbally. He seems to pace a lot. I think he might feel confined in these two rooms of space, which is one of the reasons I'd love to give him the run of the house if at all possible.
In any case, he seems relatively happy at the moment and comfortable with me. And, unlike the last cat I catsat, I don't have to give him shots every day. Double plus.
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Date: 2009-01-09 11:41 am (UTC)The pacing is probably a good sign -- he's marking territory, feeling more at home.
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Date: 2009-01-13 01:52 am (UTC)If he's pacing and rubbing, it's definitely a 'territory' thing. It might denote a certain amount of confinedness and other anxiety... hard to say. Personally, I'd let him 'mix' (as you say, now that he's had the time to settle a bit). He and the other cats might not exactly 'play nice', but it's unlikely to go _too_ wrong, too quickly. (He says, from a nice safe distance.) If he starts mailing the other cats to Acapulco, you can always revoke his parole...