Saturday, July 5, 2014 Tommy enters my life

Three weeks after applying to adopt me, she’s finally coming home.  She’s been spayed, had a rabies shot, and got her license.  She is very vocal throughout the trip home.  She didn’t like beginning carrier and ensure riding in a car increased her stress level.

On arriving home I took her into the outer room of our bathroom.  (The bathroom is really two rooms, and outer room with vanity and an inner room with toilet and top.) When I opened the carrier, the room contained her covered litter box, bed, and dishes of food and water.  We spent some time on day in the room while she explored including jumping up on the counter.  She anchored herself in the bed, but did eat and drink.  Well she explored the litter box, she didn’t use it.

I gave her some alone time before letting are into the bedroom.  Once you start exploring that Ron, I moved her bed and issues into the bedroom as the master suite will be where she will stay when I’m not home.  When I went to giver from a long time in the bedroom, she quickly moved past me into the main living area.  She explored the kitchen, but didn’t jump up on the counter which I’m hoping is a habit she keeps.  She likes chewing on a couple of the plants and spritzing her isn’t working, so I’ll move the plants into a secure room until she’s been here longer.  She has enough to experience without trying to teach preferred behavior today.

Four hours after arriving she uses the litter box and I breathe a sigh of relief.  We continued to bond throughout the night.  She’s very comfortable jumping up on a chair or the sofa if I’m sitting there and it times sits on my lap and at other times just sits next to me.

When it’s time for bed I make sure that she has access to anything she might need overnight; food, water, litter box, bed, toys, and scratching post.  When I get into bed, Tommy jumps up on the bed and settles in for the night.  I drift off to sleep knowing that we’ve had a great first day and our great match for each other.