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The Megara Chronicles: Roaming
It's getting somewhere around six weeks and we have not been able to successfully integrate Megara. There are certainly minor issues all around, like Megara is a scaredy cat and Elmer got comfortable enough with Megara that he decided they could play, and this involved grabbing and biting her just like with his brother. But the big problem is that Mango remains very hostile. He can look at her now (but he prefers not to). He can be a foot from her without hissing or growling if churu is involved. But if he encounters her without me in between them, there's usually the warbling growling yowl that we take as an indication of incipient violence.
So we have a new plan: (1) get a tall pet gate. [We have ordered it. At 51", I think Megara could get over it but I'm pretty sure the boys couldn't]; (2) install it; (3) take away the cats' free range feeding; (4) begin feeding them on opposite sides of the gate twice a day, initially with a blanket over the gate so they don't have to see each other. This is part of the Galaxy Jackson method (and the appropriate part for where we are).
So, it's going to be a pain in the neck for everyone, but we'll see how that goes. Gate should arrive in about a week.
In the meantime, the orangies often enjoy spending the day "working" with me in my office. So some days we close my office door, open Megara's door, and let her roam mostly unsupervised. Today, Kimberly took a pile of pictures (over on Facebook) of Megara making a circuit of all the upstairs windows she could find.
So we have a new plan: (1) get a tall pet gate. [We have ordered it. At 51", I think Megara could get over it but I'm pretty sure the boys couldn't]; (2) install it; (3) take away the cats' free range feeding; (4) begin feeding them on opposite sides of the gate twice a day, initially with a blanket over the gate so they don't have to see each other. This is part of the Galaxy Jackson method (and the appropriate part for where we are).
So, it's going to be a pain in the neck for everyone, but we'll see how that goes. Gate should arrive in about a week.
In the meantime, the orangies often enjoy spending the day "working" with me in my office. So some days we close my office door, open Megara's door, and let her roam mostly unsupervised. Today, Kimberly took a pile of pictures (over on Facebook) of Megara making a circuit of all the upstairs windows she could find.