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While we still segregate her for feedings and when we're both gone out of the house for any amount of time, Dorene has been out and about in the rest of the house for the most part the rest of the time since this past weekend.
Save for a few scuffles and hissy fits, everything is going pretty well. Ra is still sort of peckish with her, though we've both caught them sniffing and smooching each other a couple of times already. Lars largely ignores her unless she gets too close--then there's hissy fits and the occasional polite swat to get her to move along. We've already had all three peacefully coexist on the master bed at night more than a few times, too.
Seems as though the pecking order will be Ra, Lars, Dorene. I think Lars and Ra will still compete for the top spot, but not as much now that they've got Dorene to boss around. ;) She takes it like a champ, she really does. I don't want to get to anthropomorphic, but it almost seems as though she knows she's youngest and therefore should be the submissive to the elder boys. They react to her and she immediately assumes a very submissive and passive posture. The boys accept this and move on.
All and all, things are going very well. I plan on starting to move Dorene out of the safe room for feedings and into the office for them. I used to feed Jazz in the office and tried to get Lars to eat in the office when he came out of the safe room, but he would have none of it; I think he had the solid conditioning we gave him to avoid food in the office when Jazz was alive too ingrained in him to ever be able to successfully feed him in there, so he eats out in the kitchen in the space formerly occupied by Diva before she got sick so long ago. Whatever--it works, so we're sticking with it.
Save for a few scuffles and hissy fits, everything is going pretty well. Ra is still sort of peckish with her, though we've both caught them sniffing and smooching each other a couple of times already. Lars largely ignores her unless she gets too close--then there's hissy fits and the occasional polite swat to get her to move along. We've already had all three peacefully coexist on the master bed at night more than a few times, too.
Seems as though the pecking order will be Ra, Lars, Dorene. I think Lars and Ra will still compete for the top spot, but not as much now that they've got Dorene to boss around. ;) She takes it like a champ, she really does. I don't want to get to anthropomorphic, but it almost seems as though she knows she's youngest and therefore should be the submissive to the elder boys. They react to her and she immediately assumes a very submissive and passive posture. The boys accept this and move on.
All and all, things are going very well. I plan on starting to move Dorene out of the safe room for feedings and into the office for them. I used to feed Jazz in the office and tried to get Lars to eat in the office when he came out of the safe room, but he would have none of it; I think he had the solid conditioning we gave him to avoid food in the office when Jazz was alive too ingrained in him to ever be able to successfully feed him in there, so he eats out in the kitchen in the space formerly occupied by Diva before she got sick so long ago. Whatever--it works, so we're sticking with it.
