As mentioned in my first blog, we've been keeping Katie and Bella in our master bedroom. Janet and I have been taking turns sleeping in the front bedroom (the other sleeping in the master bedroom with the girls) so that our elderly Duncan Dog and Sophie Cat would have someone in whose room they could sleep as has been their custom. Duncan would be happy to sleep with the girls (!) in the master bedroom but Sophie has historically been opposed to having other females in her house to say the least. It's not much of an inconvenience to us to have the girls in our bedroom but we wanted to let them have a bit more area to explore and enjoy so we barricaded the stairway up from the first floor with an expandable child safety gate.
Having installed the gate half-way up the stairway, we opened the bedroom door and gave the ladies the run of the second floor. Bella was exploring instantly and quickly found the cat tree we'd put in front of the window in the back bedroom. In fact, the gate isn't high enough to prevent the 3 cats from going up or down the stairway if they want to climb or leap over it but we decided to pretend that they aren't smart enough to figure that out or else would not care to do so. We'd really like them to have more area in which to chase each other around. It would also allow us to put their litter boxes in the guest bathroom, reducing the zoo-like ambiance now extant in our bathroom as well as the coarse sand beach we walk in when using it.
This evening not so long ago, Janet asked me if I knew where Katie was. Beads of sweat appeared on my upper lip as I envisioned a major disaster involving Sophie and Katie but I realized that I'd heard none of the screeching that usually accompanies a cat assault. A few minutes later, Katie was found peacefully sleeping in Duncan's bed in the front bedroom. To my way of thinking, that's a very good sign!
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