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Rambling update
May. 21st, 2023 03:47 pm( work, finances, health )
A bit over a month ago we adopted a second cat. Ellie (Eleanor) Kat is a pale tabby, about 7 years old according by her teeth according to the vet, bigger and more playful than Gytha and also much firmer about enforcing her boundaries on people with teeth and claws.
Her owner had died and she had been living outside with one-a-day human contact since. D & E fell in love with her from the photo in the FB post, and so did I a little bit so the vote was 2 1/2 to 1/2 in favour. Gytha was very not-impressed with the new addition to the household (Ellie was completely unconcerned about the presence of another cat, beyond self defence) but we have progressed from hissing/growling matches and stand offs to them being somewhere between wary and comfortable in each other's presence as long at the half-metre distance isn't pressed. Gytha has also become much more peopley, but interestingly also more interested in play.
Ellie is also used to a much larger territory (Gytha has always stuck pretty close to property boundaries) leading to several evenings spent herding her home from a block away when we first started letting her out.
I also think the household dynamic has improved with D having a cat she can call "hers" :)
A bit over a month ago we adopted a second cat. Ellie (Eleanor) Kat is a pale tabby, about 7 years old according by her teeth according to the vet, bigger and more playful than Gytha and also much firmer about enforcing her boundaries on people with teeth and claws.
Her owner had died and she had been living outside with one-a-day human contact since. D & E fell in love with her from the photo in the FB post, and so did I a little bit so the vote was 2 1/2 to 1/2 in favour. Gytha was very not-impressed with the new addition to the household (Ellie was completely unconcerned about the presence of another cat, beyond self defence) but we have progressed from hissing/growling matches and stand offs to them being somewhere between wary and comfortable in each other's presence as long at the half-metre distance isn't pressed. Gytha has also become much more peopley, but interestingly also more interested in play.
Ellie is also used to a much larger territory (Gytha has always stuck pretty close to property boundaries) leading to several evenings spent herding her home from a block away when we first started letting her out.
I also think the household dynamic has improved with D having a cat she can call "hers" :)
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