Sarah Jo Austin

The Great Cat-astrophe: Day 2

April 1st, 2008

Well, we made it through the night. Cosmo stayed in the office, and Ravi was on speaking terms with us by the morning. He did, however, poop on the kitchen rug while Chris and I were in the kitchen, which I think is a passive-aggressive protest of the recent events. We frantically cleaned the rug and left it on the patio, and we cleaned out the litterbox and moved it from the spare bedroom to the entryway, so Ravi wouldn’t have to go anywhere near the office door.

We left them as they were while we were at work, and the house was still standing when we came home. And all poop was in its assigned litterbox.
Ravi was in a much better mood when we got home and only growled at us if we smelled too much like Cosmo, so after we hung out with Cosmo in the office, we made sure we washed our hands well before approaching Ravi.

We don’t especially like giving Ravi too many tuna treats, but we’ve found that they’re a good incentive to approach the office door. We made a trail of tuna treats down the hall to the door, and he followed them all—right to the door. We also moved his food from the laundry room to the hallway as another way of associating something good with the office door (and therefore, the new cat). We’ll move his food closer and closer to the door this week and continue to make tuna treat trails to the door.

Cosmo got his scent all over my jeans, which were dirty anyway, so I left them in the living room near where Ravi likes to nap overnight. I also left a tuna treat on top of them. I’ll keep putting items that smell like Cosmo in our main living space this week (with tuna treats, I’m sure), so Numero Uno can get used to this new cat smell.

Cosmo is doing very well. He’s quite the love machine: he purrs non-stop and loves rubbing his face on everything that belongs to you. He also likes to love bite, and we have to keep him from rubbing our faces because once he starts rubbing, he tries to nip at us. He has a bit of a kitty cold, but he seems to already be shaking that. He farts quite a bit, and he drools some, too. Hopefully, these little issues will be resolved the older he gets and the more adjusted he gets to our family.

I know he’s only been here a day, but I’m already pretty attached to him…

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