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Roxie on Patrol
For the past two days, our Roxie has been pulling guard duty at the top
of the stairs, bapping Stosh and Brandy if they try to push the door to Odessa's room open or cause general mischief. Roxie and Odessa each know that there is someone on the other side of the door. I heard a conversation this morning, and for once it did not include a cussword. Roxie and Odessa were actually speaking in civil tones to one another: Roxie in her high-pitched trill-meow dialect, and Odessa in a clear, rather loud squeak. I am certain that Roxie must have told Odessa not to be too nervous, and indeed there is a change in our little newcomer. She's coming out more, and she's not calling out obscenities when I get near her. I'm still not ready to put the gate up and supervise the first stage of integration, not yet. Odessa is still on the shy side, though getting less skittish. Maybe tomorrow or Wednesday. Right now Louie and I are spending time up here, taking turns while the other sees to the other kids, and we take turns sleeping here with her. We started that with Roxie, whom we got shortly after Stosh, and it has worked with every cat we've brought here so far. Louie will camp out here tonight, and Roxie will continue her guard duty. I'm identifying with her somehow. She's been spayed and has never had kittens, and I can't have kids, but having the cats around brings out the Mama in both of us. Blessed be, Baha |
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