ohmigosh.

[lex]

Please excuse the crappy cell phone pictures! I AM TOO EXCITED TO FIND A REAL CAMERA.

There were no hitches. I got there, I filled out paperwork, they called the owner of my house (Dad, lololol) and made sure I was allowed to have a cat, they gave me her medical records, and I was off with a bag of cat food. They put her in her carrier before I got to snuggle her, so against my better thinking I let her out in the car (windows up, doors locked, etc.) and oh gosh she was such a sweetie right away. She explored the car quietly, listened to boundaries when I told her not to go near my feet, and spent the ride home curled up behind my seat. Then back in the carrier and into the house!

I am a firm believer in slow introductions, so we started in just the bathroom. I let Dad and my brother say hello, and then they cleared out, and once she was calm we expanded into the hallway and my room. I think it'll stay this space for now - I want her to find this part of the house to be her safe space. She's got food, water, litter... I need to work out steps for getting on and off the bed, it's a bit high, but she's getting around just fine.

I can't move two steps without her staring up at me mournfully. We had cuddles on the bed and I found out that she gives teeny love nibbles and likes to put her paw on my face. She listens to "no" so well that I think I need to be very careful about using it. She's on my bed now, washing herself, and when the neighbors make noise she freezes - and all I have to do is look over and say something reassuring and she'll look over at me with that cat-look of "well duh, I knew that all along, I wasn't freaked out at all, silly human" and go back to washing.

NOSTALGIAAAAA~~

Comments

[northern]

Yay kitty!

[swordage]

\o/ It's a kitty!