Ted's last day?
Well, our quiet little feral cat will soon be taking his leave of our house.
We are moving away and the vet clinic that "owns" Ted has found a new foster home for him! We are quite happy about that because it means he will not be stuck in a kennel in the busy vet office - that would be waaay too stressful for this boy.
He is not quite at the adoptable stage yet, but he gets closer every month. His latest trick is to hang out near the foot of, and underneath, our bed and lightly touch Mark's feet if he happens to be walking by or standing within reach. For some reason he never ever does this to me - only to Mark - and I have no idea why!
He sits out in the open when we are nearby sometimes, and will follow me down the hallway from my bedroom to the living room every now and again. If I stop and turn around, he stops and looks at me.
He's such a swell little guy, and when he's all tamed up he's going to be so much fun to have around. I'm sorry we didn't have time to fully domesticate him but I'm just thrilled that there is another home out there that's willing to work on him.
Today is probably his last day here. Good luck, Ted. You're almost there, and you'll always be safe.
IN OTHER NEWS:
We were contacted recently by Cuinn the Lurcher's new family. I always get really scared when I get an email or a phone call from an adoptive family - in this kind of business, no news is always good news, and emails and phone calls usually indicate problems.
In this case, there is a problem, but it's not a very bad one. Cuinn and Skyla are settling in nicely and their new canine sister is adapting to their presence. Cuinn keeps leaving nocturnal "presents" for his family though! He did this once while at our house, and from then on we took him outside for a bathroom break right before bed and he was fine after that.
He is doing it somewhat frequently in his new home, though. It's hard to say why. He's on different food, different water (well water as opposed to city water) lives in the country instead of the city, has different dogs with him in the household, the house itself is a different layout than he's used to (more stairs), the list goes on and on. Any one of these differences may be triggering his night-time elimination problems. The good news is that, although he pooped once in our house during the night, he DIDN'T for every other night, so we know he is physically capable of holding it. It's just going to be a matter of figuring out why he's doing it, and then helping him to stop.
The greyhound group has suggested that the new owners crate him at night, and I think they're going to do just that. If I hear anything further on how he's doing, I'll let you all know.
Until then, we'll send good thoughts to Cuinn at night, and send calm happy thoughts to Ted in his new foster home.
We are moving away and the vet clinic that "owns" Ted has found a new foster home for him! We are quite happy about that because it means he will not be stuck in a kennel in the busy vet office - that would be waaay too stressful for this boy.
He is not quite at the adoptable stage yet, but he gets closer every month. His latest trick is to hang out near the foot of, and underneath, our bed and lightly touch Mark's feet if he happens to be walking by or standing within reach. For some reason he never ever does this to me - only to Mark - and I have no idea why!
He sits out in the open when we are nearby sometimes, and will follow me down the hallway from my bedroom to the living room every now and again. If I stop and turn around, he stops and looks at me.
He's such a swell little guy, and when he's all tamed up he's going to be so much fun to have around. I'm sorry we didn't have time to fully domesticate him but I'm just thrilled that there is another home out there that's willing to work on him.
Today is probably his last day here. Good luck, Ted. You're almost there, and you'll always be safe.
IN OTHER NEWS:
We were contacted recently by Cuinn the Lurcher's new family. I always get really scared when I get an email or a phone call from an adoptive family - in this kind of business, no news is always good news, and emails and phone calls usually indicate problems.
In this case, there is a problem, but it's not a very bad one. Cuinn and Skyla are settling in nicely and their new canine sister is adapting to their presence. Cuinn keeps leaving nocturnal "presents" for his family though! He did this once while at our house, and from then on we took him outside for a bathroom break right before bed and he was fine after that.
He is doing it somewhat frequently in his new home, though. It's hard to say why. He's on different food, different water (well water as opposed to city water) lives in the country instead of the city, has different dogs with him in the household, the house itself is a different layout than he's used to (more stairs), the list goes on and on. Any one of these differences may be triggering his night-time elimination problems. The good news is that, although he pooped once in our house during the night, he DIDN'T for every other night, so we know he is physically capable of holding it. It's just going to be a matter of figuring out why he's doing it, and then helping him to stop.
The greyhound group has suggested that the new owners crate him at night, and I think they're going to do just that. If I hear anything further on how he's doing, I'll let you all know.
Until then, we'll send good thoughts to Cuinn at night, and send calm happy thoughts to Ted in his new foster home.
posted by Julie at 12:01 p.m.
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