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Is it really? I thought it looked so funny when T froze when K looked up but I didn't know that it was playing.It's the beginning of cat play.
Not sure how you both managed to do this,....this fast....since I was betting that this was going to happen within 2 weeks, but it already happened today. (glad I don't actually bet using money....or I'd be broke.)
It's just such a good feeling, to see T initiating play, not being too fearful, and K just crouching there, ears attentive and listening, and not looking upset. At one point K looks away, so that must be good.
I wish I could let T out into the living room by myself during the day but it's a two-person ordeal...I feel like it works better during the day, when K is sleepier.
It's cuter knowing that T was trying to play!
Yes, me too, even though I'm not familiar with cat behavior. Or, at the very least, if she would do the pawing without the vocalizing (which happens sometimes already)?I'd like to see the pawing reduced in intensity, coming from K, and then I'd be comfortable with the next steps.
We plan to do this whenever we get to the point of them meeting. T just doesn't stay still long enough for us to try with her, but we've been trying to get her used to us touching her paws during mealtimes (she pulls away ).If K allows you, then you could try to give her claws a trim, just on the tips.
K, we can do very slowly if she is especially sleepy.
You are welcome, haha, I think you would find K funny if you could meet her. She is very bratty...Goodness, thank you for that laugh, today.
Yes, I did see that she was following the toy! After I took the video I played with her (different wand toy) and she did sort of go after it a bit, but shortly after that was when she pawed at the gate.Oh, and if you notice in that 2nd GIF, K is really following that wand toy, ...more so, than she does T.
So maybe playing with K with that wand toy, will also reduce her reactions, to make her 'feel better', and not have to be 'grumpy or annoyed'.
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cat nap I moved K over for dinner today and we fed T at the bottom of the stairs. K ate almost all of her food, she left some scraps - hard to tell if she did that because she wasn't as hungry, or if she was feeling edgy about being moved.
(When we were trying to feed her upstairs before, for the "two sides of the door" thing, she started leaving larger and larger portions of her food before refusing to go upstairs...so we'll see if she keeps eating all her food downstairs even if we move her further into the hallway.)
This is about halfway between her usual place and the gate, it's the first place where she might have line of sight to T if she wanted. I'll admit to being impatient about it because I probably should have moved from her original location inches at a time...
To me it seemed like she didn't notice or pay attention to T at all, she was just confused why I moved from her regular location. But she has much sharper senses than I do so I expect she did know T was eating nearby.
(You can just see T peering over the rice bag in the back.)