The cats are all well.\u00a0 I’ve given up trying to trap Sneaky for now.\u00a0 The near miss from two weeks ago seems to have made her more cautious than she had been.\u00a0 We’ll just have to take our chances.\u00a0 She and Peaches are inseparable, even coming to the food bowl together and pushing each other around while they gobble up the relatively sparse offering it gives them.<\/p>\n
I have not seen Little Orange since that one day in early January.\u00a0 I do not know where she hangs out, but I’m thankful to know she’s out there, and she looked healthy when I saw her.\u00a0 She’s taking care of herself, however she’s doing it.<\/p>\n
Lady, Ajax, Natasha, and Tarzan are all doing well.\u00a0 The kittens adore the boys; they steer clear of Lady (who usually punches them when she sees them); and they respect Natasha, who does her best to ignore them.<\/p>\n
Floyd is still a wondrous, lovable, impish charmer.\u00a0 He is the only one who has crawled into my lap on his own.\u00a0 I think he’ll fit with anyone who wants him.\u00a0 He’s discovered the doors three doors leading out of the kitchen and parlor and wants to explore beyond them — especially to the rest of the house.\u00a0 If we were keeping them, they’d have full run of the house by now.\u00a0 In fact, when I head to San Antonio for a week in early February, we’ll experiment with just that (it’s a smaller house with fewer hiding places).<\/p>\n
The only thing really stopping full house access is Rossie, who still hides from us most of the time.\u00a0 She has taken to sitting about three-four feet behind my computer chair, so I think she wants something<\/em> but doesn’t know how to let herself ask.\u00a0 Perhaps in due time.\u00a0 She’s very much a feral cat, but I think she desperately wants to be a house kitty.\u00a0 For now, there are too many hiding places for a scared kitty, and I need to be able to find her.\u00a0 For now, she has a drawer she’s found a way to get into that seems to give her that hiding place.\u00a0 It took me a while to find her there, but now that I know about it, I can leave her to her privacy most of the time. I’m most worried about an adoptive home for her.\u00a0 She’ll need someone who understands her and has a lot of patience.\u00a0 Definitely no kids.<\/p>\n Delta is a big rag doll kitty.\u00a0 If I get off my computer chair, she’s usually curled up on it when I come back.\u00a0 I can hold her, and she is just there.\u00a0 I’m not sure how she’d respond to kids, but maybe she’d let them haul her around and dress her up.<\/p>\n Ruby is the runt and very spunky.\u00a0 She’s putting on a little weight, but she’s still small.\u00a0 I think she’ll adopt pretty well, too.\u00a0 That said, there’s a part of me that wants to see all four of them still there at the end of their week to two week adoption window.\u00a0 But I don’t think that would really be best for them.<\/p>\n This is how the four of them relate with me.\u00a0 Unfortunately, they are less tolerant of my cat whisperer husband, so that also raises questions in my mind about how adoptable they will be.\u00a0 If I’m the only one they will allow to work with them, then that’s not too helpful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The cats are all well.\u00a0 I’ve given up trying to trap Sneaky for now.\u00a0 The near miss from two weeks ago seems to have made her more cautious than she had been.\u00a0 We’ll just have to take our chances.\u00a0 She and Peaches are inseparable, even coming to the food bowl …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[117,77],"tags":[113],"class_list":["post-5963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","category-pets","tag-feral-cats"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5963\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}