After nearly a month of freedom, Rossie felt comfortable enough to spend yesterday afternoon and evening upstairs. Since she didn’t come downstairs to go in the cage, we left her out. When Mr. L went up to bed last night, Rossie joined him and spent all night with him, even with Lady on the bed, too. All was quiet.

Maybe we were just lucky last night, or maybe Rossie’s confidence has grown to the point where she is no longer as interesting to Lady. Rossie has repelled Lady time and again from the rocking chair in the parlor, so perhaps Rossie’s confidence in dealing with Lady has grown to a level where we’ll have more reasonable interactions between them.

Either way, our goal was to build Rossie’s confidence to the point where she was comfortable doing as she pleases. We do wish she would please to spend more daytime time downstairs with us.

Maybe we’ll be able to return the cage to the garage again.  Wouldn’t that be nice?