Today is Sept 5th. I’ve had Madonna for a couple days cooped up in that bedroom. I go in with her for about an hour every few hours so she’s not too lonely, but it still bums me out to keep her locked up.

So today we move onto phase II! Letting her get acclimated with the rest of the condo. It’s too early to just open the door and let her out among my weenie cats (i’ll explain) but my thought is she needs to be a little comfortable with the place itself before I introduce her. That way she’s not in a really unfamiliar place and it might reduce her initial stress.

I locked up weenie 1 and weenie 2 in the bedrroom and let Madonna out. It was then that I realized just how messy one tiny pregnant cat can make an entire bedroom in ONE day. I vacuumed this room before putting her in it. Sure can’t tell now

I guess it could be worse. At least she used the litter box.

Her parole was made and she was released at 8:00am Friday Sept 5. It’s not really parole of course, more like work release because after a few hours I need to put her back in so the others can reclaim their home;

She got use to things pretty quickly. Followed me everywhere but when I’d sit in one spot she’d explore. She managed to stick her paws under the door where the other two are at so she succeeded in pissing them off already!

After awhile she relaxed some and started ‘getting her cat on’. First cleaning up,

Then begging for some tummy rubs. Man this cat LOVES her tummy to be rubbed. My guess it is’t pretty sore from being stretched like a balloon.

So things are good. She’s sitting by my pc right now as I type

To answer the earlier statement about my cats being weenies. I ran a test. Madonna was behind her door, and my two were just on the other side. So I opened the door letting them stare face to face. I onlly wanted to do it for a second.

Within I’d say 1/3 of a second, my two had turned around, stuck their tails straight up in the air, and ran all the way to the other end of the condo. Madonna, however, never moved and started playfully meowing and kneading the floor.

ugh