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Nenya the white cat is very happy. She is a competent, able cat, she has access to a vast cat tree, a lot of exciting places to sit and climb, and if she likes she can go outside through the cat flap for a little bit to chase leaves and stare at birds.
Fankil the grey cat is also very happy! He is slightly less competent than Nenya, but very cuddly and cheerful, and VERY pleased to be indoors again after his Big Adventure when he went astray for several months.
It's warm and comfy again, and he likes to roll around relaxing and hang out with the dogs. He has been to the vet, who discovered that he has feline Covid (not related) and a bacterial infection, so he's had antibiotics and is in isolation from the other cats for two weeks, but is feeling much better (and also smelling so much better, thank god). At the moment he's living in the living-room where he can look out at birds and chitter at them.
Gothmog the black cat is NOT happy, and I wish I knew how to fix it. She seems to have suffered a horrible loss of confidence. Maybe it's the house move, maybe it's something about the new house, maybe it's the noise of the builders working or Fankil going missing or Nenya being mean to her or Theo being pushy around her. Or all of those things.
She has now given up hiding under the bath, and instead decided to hide on the windowsill in our bedroom and take pee breaks on the bed. This obviously will not do, so I have washed all the things, and she is now assigned the sun room downstairs, where Nenya can't get at her, where she'll have more space and sun and with luck, she can forge a new relationship with the litter tray.
I've also started taking her out for brief supervised garden breaks. She used to spend a lot of time outside in Cornwall, where there was more cover and it was easier for a cat to wander in and out through windows, and I feel that maybe some time with her feet on the grass will help. She does seem to enjoy the outings.
At the moment, all three cats are living separately in different rooms! I am really hoping that we can get them integrated back together again. Nenya and Fankil seem to be quite chill about situations where they can see one another at a distance now, so I am hopeful that might work out once Fankil is out of cat-isolation again.
Fankil the grey cat is also very happy! He is slightly less competent than Nenya, but very cuddly and cheerful, and VERY pleased to be indoors again after his Big Adventure when he went astray for several months.
It's warm and comfy again, and he likes to roll around relaxing and hang out with the dogs. He has been to the vet, who discovered that he has feline Covid (not related) and a bacterial infection, so he's had antibiotics and is in isolation from the other cats for two weeks, but is feeling much better (and also smelling so much better, thank god). At the moment he's living in the living-room where he can look out at birds and chitter at them.
Gothmog the black cat is NOT happy, and I wish I knew how to fix it. She seems to have suffered a horrible loss of confidence. Maybe it's the house move, maybe it's something about the new house, maybe it's the noise of the builders working or Fankil going missing or Nenya being mean to her or Theo being pushy around her. Or all of those things.
She has now given up hiding under the bath, and instead decided to hide on the windowsill in our bedroom and take pee breaks on the bed. This obviously will not do, so I have washed all the things, and she is now assigned the sun room downstairs, where Nenya can't get at her, where she'll have more space and sun and with luck, she can forge a new relationship with the litter tray.
I've also started taking her out for brief supervised garden breaks. She used to spend a lot of time outside in Cornwall, where there was more cover and it was easier for a cat to wander in and out through windows, and I feel that maybe some time with her feet on the grass will help. She does seem to enjoy the outings.
At the moment, all three cats are living separately in different rooms! I am really hoping that we can get them integrated back together again. Nenya and Fankil seem to be quite chill about situations where they can see one another at a distance now, so I am hopeful that might work out once Fankil is out of cat-isolation again.
