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We've been bringing her out of the safe room to interact with the boys for ever longer periods of time over the course of the last week. It didn't start off well--the boys were having NONE of her being out of there and they were hissy, swatty, and pouty at first. No major fisticuffs were had, though, so we had that going for us. ;) As the week went on, everybody slowly got adjusted to each other and, gradually, less hissing, swatting, and pouting was to be had.
Yesterday we had her out after we ran our errands and left her out while we took our respective naps and all was well. The rest of the time went well, too, so we decided to try leaving the door to the safe room open for her last night to see what would happen.
Either we both slept soundly for a change or things went really well. ;) Neither of us woke to fighting in the middle of the night. :) There were minor fisticuffs between Dorene and Ra this morning not long after I got up when they were together on the bed, enough that Dorene's breakaway collar came off (we should probably tighten that a little more), but no other damage. Just a lot of noise on Ra's part.
Of the two boys, Ra is taking it harder. I'm not surprised. He's had a lot of change over the course of the last year involving other kitties (losing Diva in July and Jazz in December, meeting Lars in August and now Dorene last month) so I'm sure he's sick of all this feline change shit going on in his world. He's quite the Curmudgeon, hissing and posturing and the occasional swatting and attacking towards both Lars (occasionally still) and Dorene. But he's slowly getting less surly. This is A Good Thing. I think it'll take a little more time, but eventually all three kids will get along with each other just fine...Here's to hoping, anyway...
Yesterday we had her out after we ran our errands and left her out while we took our respective naps and all was well. The rest of the time went well, too, so we decided to try leaving the door to the safe room open for her last night to see what would happen.
Either we both slept soundly for a change or things went really well. ;) Neither of us woke to fighting in the middle of the night. :) There were minor fisticuffs between Dorene and Ra this morning not long after I got up when they were together on the bed, enough that Dorene's breakaway collar came off (we should probably tighten that a little more), but no other damage. Just a lot of noise on Ra's part.
Of the two boys, Ra is taking it harder. I'm not surprised. He's had a lot of change over the course of the last year involving other kitties (losing Diva in July and Jazz in December, meeting Lars in August and now Dorene last month) so I'm sure he's sick of all this feline change shit going on in his world. He's quite the Curmudgeon, hissing and posturing and the occasional swatting and attacking towards both Lars (occasionally still) and Dorene. But he's slowly getting less surly. This is A Good Thing. I think it'll take a little more time, but eventually all three kids will get along with each other just fine...Here's to hoping, anyway...
