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OK, I haven't posted for a bit, so I should provide an update before I ask for advice here.
Jonas is doing well, though just as shy and hiding a lot. Part of this is our fault, though unavoidable. You see, we live in the city but we have a place in the Shenandoah Valley as well. We've put the condo in the city on the market and are looking to buy a new place - a nice row house, with more room.
Of course, de-cluttering the condo and putting it on the market meant taking all the cats out to the valley, which we did. Jonas has the basement out there, which is really nice actually - it's split level, so lots of windows and stuff. While we're in town with the other cats (because we figure taking her back-and-forth in this interim period will be way too much for her!), we have a friend coming and taking care of her. Mostly, she's in a bedroom closet, top shelf. She lets Rob pet her; me not so much (I got to that place in the city, but I think I totally pissed her off putting her in the container and taking her out to the country, lol).
So, we'll probably close on a new place in the city towards the end of October/early November. Beginning on Friday next week, we'll be staying out in the country because we're closing on the condo. So the question is: how do we handle the move back and such?
Do we just leave the basement area open and allow the cats to just all go after each other? How do we re-start socialization - doesn't it make sense to get this going before we introduce everybody to the new place in the city? I'd rather not have this continual process of having a separate room for Jonas and get these guys to finally deal with each other ....
-Chris
Jonas is doing well, though just as shy and hiding a lot. Part of this is our fault, though unavoidable. You see, we live in the city but we have a place in the Shenandoah Valley as well. We've put the condo in the city on the market and are looking to buy a new place - a nice row house, with more room.
Of course, de-cluttering the condo and putting it on the market meant taking all the cats out to the valley, which we did. Jonas has the basement out there, which is really nice actually - it's split level, so lots of windows and stuff. While we're in town with the other cats (because we figure taking her back-and-forth in this interim period will be way too much for her!), we have a friend coming and taking care of her. Mostly, she's in a bedroom closet, top shelf. She lets Rob pet her; me not so much (I got to that place in the city, but I think I totally pissed her off putting her in the container and taking her out to the country, lol).
So, we'll probably close on a new place in the city towards the end of October/early November. Beginning on Friday next week, we'll be staying out in the country because we're closing on the condo. So the question is: how do we handle the move back and such?
Do we just leave the basement area open and allow the cats to just all go after each other? How do we re-start socialization - doesn't it make sense to get this going before we introduce everybody to the new place in the city? I'd rather not have this continual process of having a separate room for Jonas and get these guys to finally deal with each other ....
-Chris