Oct 262010
 

Before I left Utah, Fingers looked like this:

That’s her at the top of the stairs, looking down on me in “huntress mode,” ready to pound. The very image of the self-confident predator at the top of her game, and the top of the pyramid.

But the first night away from home, cooped up in a motel room, turned her into this:

That’s her curled up on a shelf in the bathroom, trying to hide from the weirdness of it all. In the week since, she really hasn’t improved any.

 Posted by at 10:00 pm

  4 Responses to “Change of location = change of attitude”

  1. Get an extra map and refer to it often enough to get her sitting on it. Then she’s back in charge of her environment and should do fine. If not, she has a crinkly sheet of paper that you pay attention to to sit on, and I’ve never seen that not cheer up a cat.

  2. Does she have anything to lie on that smells like home?

  3. JP’s right; she needs something familiar from home to be with 24/7.
    Get an Ace bandage and physically strap her to Raedthinn’s side the way that rat was strapped to the cat in Lynch’s “Dune”.
    Raidthinn writes: “You die. You die and you go to Hell.”
    Anyone identified all the Lovecraft creatures in the last South Park episode yet?
    So far, I’ve got Elder Things, Nyarlathotep, and Dagon. 🙂

  4. My lodger’s cat (Random Numbers), upon arrival at my house, crawled under my TV set stand and stayed there 99% of the time for then next three weeks, cursing in a steady, low, ominous rumble. It was six months before that cat would let me pet her. She’s much better now, but it took her a long time, poor thing. The more time she spent with her owner, the better she got.

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