Lorelei update 1-3-2011

Lorelei is doing well.

I'm sitting at my computer, as usual, in the living room.

Lorelei just came up to the invisible boundary between the dining room
and the living room (which she will NOT cross) and meowed at me.

This is a bit unusual for her, as she is a pretty quiet kitty.

I asked her what she wanted, but she didn't tell me. Well, she meowed a
few more times, but I wasn't able to make a good translation

But when I stood up, she walked quickly into the kitchen.

Her water dish was empty....I had not noticed it was getting low.

I usually check it first thing I get up and feed Lorelei...but I guess I
forgot.

Lorelei came back, a few minutes after I cleaned and filled her water
dish; she was licking around her mouth.

She meowed to me twice, and went and climbed up on her cat tree.

I would swear that she was saying 'thank you' to me.

She is a very sweet cat

She is still a lot more nervous than I would like, and I STILL can't get
her to enter my living room....but she seems to like it here.

And she spends a LOT of time on her cat tree

~~~~~~~~~~~~ ^..^

"Life without cats would be only marginally worth living."
-TC, in loving memory of the unmercifully, relentlessly, sweet calico
kitty, Kenzie.

Every day was a treasure with Kenzie; I tried to treat them that way.
There would only be so many, and now, there will never, ever, be any
more

How you behave towards cats here below determines your status in Heaven.
- Robert Heinlein

ingold1234[at]yahoo[dot]com (Gandalf) wrote in message
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Lorelei is doing well.

I'm sitting at my computer, as usual, in the living room.

Lorelei just came up to the invisible boundary between the dining room
and the living room (which she will NOT cross) and meowed at me.

This is a bit unusual for her, as she is a pretty quiet kitty.

I asked her what she wanted, but she didn't tell me. Well, she meowed a
few more times, but I wasn't able to make a good translation

But when I stood up, she walked quickly into the kitchen.

Her water dish was empty....I had not noticed it was getting low.

I usually check it first thing I get up and feed Lorelei...but I guess I
forgot.

Lorelei came back, a few minutes after I cleaned and filled her water
dish; she was licking around her mouth.

She meowed to me twice, and went and climbed up on her cat tree.

I would swear that she was saying 'thank you' to me.

She is a very sweet cat

She is still a lot more nervous than I would like, and I STILL can't get
her to enter my living room....but she seems to like it here.

And she spends a LOT of time on her cat tree

~~~~~~~~~~~~ ^..^

That sounds like real progress to me! She told you what she wanted,
confident that you'd figure it out, which you did. Then she thanked you.
It's good that she likes the cat tree, too. Someday she will cross that
invisible line.--

Joy

Forming a plan has a way of making you think you know what you're doing.
- Lynn Schooler, Walking Home

On 1/5/2011 12:42 AM, Gandalf wrote:
Lorelei is doing well.

I'm sitting at my computer, as usual, in the living room.

Lorelei just came up to the invisible boundary between the dining room
and the living room (which she will NOT cross) and meowed at me.

This is a bit unusual for her, as she is a pretty quiet kitty.

I asked her what she wanted, but she didn't tell me. Well, she meowed a
few more times, but I wasn't able to make a good translation

But when I stood up, she walked quickly into the kitchen.

Her water dish was empty....I had not noticed it was getting low.

I usually check it first thing I get up and feed Lorelei...but I guess I
forgot.

Lorelei came back, a few minutes after I cleaned and filled her water
dish; she was licking around her mouth.

She meowed to me twice, and went and climbed up on her cat tree.

I would swear that she was saying 'thank you' to me.

She is a very sweet cat

She is still a lot more nervous than I would like, and I STILL can't get
her to enter my living room....but she seems to like it here.

And she spends a LOT of time on her cat tree

~~~~~~~~~~~~ ^..^

Sounds to me like she's making progress on her own time - which is as it
should be! Kudos for letting her "do her own thing"!


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Thanks for the update.. I enjoy hearing how she is doing.... Sounds like
you are getting along....

Gandalf wrote:
Lorelei is doing well.

I'm sitting at my computer, as usual, in the living room.

Lorelei just came up to the invisible boundary between the dining room
and the living room (which she will NOT cross) and meowed at me.

This is a bit unusual for her, as she is a pretty quiet kitty.

I asked her what she wanted, but she didn't tell me. Well, she meowed a
few more times, but I wasn't able to make a good translation

But when I stood up, she walked quickly into the kitchen.

Her water dish was empty....I had not noticed it was getting low.

I usually check it first thing I get up and feed Lorelei...but I guess I
forgot.

Lorelei came back, a few minutes after I cleaned and filled her water
dish; she was licking around her mouth.

She meowed to me twice, and went and climbed up on her cat tree.

I would swear that she was saying 'thank you' to me.

She is a very sweet cat

She is still a lot more nervous than I would like, and I STILL can't get
her to enter my living room....but she seems to like it here.

And she spends a LOT of time on her cat tree

~~~~~~~~~~~~ ^..^

"Life without cats would be only marginally worth living."
-TC, in loving memory of the unmercifully, relentlessly, sweet calico
kitty, Kenzie.

Every day was a treasure with Kenzie; I tried to treat them that way.
There would only be so many, and now, there will never, ever, be any
more

How you behave towards cats here below determines your status in Heaven.
- Robert Heinlein



It might be interesting to see if you could tempt her to cross the line
by placing a catnip mousie just far enough away that she would cross
"the line". She sounds great -- good work! MLB