With an eye toward eventually letting the Weeds girls out into Gen Pop, I decided to let a Pickle in to visit with them, and see how it went. Since Polly was hanging around outside the foster room when I made this decision, I picked her up and took her into the room with me.
Dandelion was all “Oooh, who’s THAT? She’s FABulous!”
Polly and Dandelion sniffed each other.
And Polly was all “Huh. She doesn’t seem familiar!”
When Polly jumped down to examine the room more closely, Dandelion wasn’t quite sure if the Stranger Danger Floof was called for, so she just put on her medium suit instead of going Full Suit.
She watched Polly sniff the food.
And then she approached her again for another sniff.
And then Polly said “Dude, could you sniff a little less vigorously? You’re making me nervous.”
Dandelion backed off, but kept on following.
Purslane said “I don’t… THINK I know her. Do I?”
Then Purslane said “What you want? I’m busy playing!” and Thistle said “WHAT’S GOING ON OVER HERE.”
Purslane went up to examine the wall basket, and Polly watched with interest. Purslane said “WHAT? Geez, strange kitty, take a picture, it’ll last longer!”
“That’s right, I was in MY wall basket, now I’m on MY wall shelf. You got a problem with that?”
“No room up here for strangers.”
“NO ROOM UP HERE FOR SISTERS, EITHER.” (Notice Polly, hiding under the scratcher.)
Polly pulled out a half-hearted Paw o’ Doom, but didn’t actually unleash it.
Then Polly tried out the wall-mouse-scratcher-toy-thingy, whilst standing in the giant Croc bed.
And batted at its tail.
So all in all, the visit went fine. She was in there for about 20 minutes – I supervised – and there was only one hiss the entire time. Dandelion couldn’t quite figure out whether the Stranger Danger Floof suit was called for or not, but she was definitely interested in Polly.
Over the weekend, we let the Weeds out for some supervised play time, and it was pretty relaxed. No hissing or growling on anyone’s part. Dandelion would do the Halloween-cat arch and floof up slightly when she saw another cat (ANY other cat – even if it was one of her sisters.) We’ll continue with the supervised play time for the time being. Though I’m certain that the girls will end up ultimately FIV negative, and it takes a pretty deep puncture wound to transfer FIV, kittens can get pretty mean when they’re playing (Tony Rocky Magoo, I am LOOKING at you), and I would hate to have them turn up positive when all is said and done, and to have passed it to the Pickles. I don’t think it would happen, but it’s certainly better to be safe than sorry.
Abuse of Power.
Look at Corbie there, not EVEN looking at the Sheriff. He’s minding his own bidness.
Sheriff Mama’s all “I don’t like the looks o’ you. ::smack:smack:smackity:smack::”
Corbie says “What did I do, Sheriff?!”
Kara’s all “I don’t know yet, but I’M SURE I’LL FIND SOMETHING YOU DONE WRONG, SON.”
Sheriff Mama took a breather before looking for her next victim. Uh, POTENTIAL CRIMINAL, I mean.
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Previously
2011: No entry.
2010: What cracked me up is that Maxi didn’t even stick her paw through the fence to smack Corby, and he still fell over like she’d made contact.
2009: Obviously the only way to get a decent shot of all six of them, they need to be drugged and very, very sleepy.
2008: The Godfather Catmother
2007: Y’all KNOW I wasn’t going to turn down the chance to bring them home for a few days, so Saturday morning I went and got them.
2006: No entry.
2005: No entry.