is apparently this:
It’s been a week since the terrible experience of being put in the cat carrier, so I figured I’d see if I could get Talore a bit more relaxed around it (not out of any need to put her in it, but I’d rather she not run and hide at the sight of it). I put it in the middle of the living room to start with. Talore didn’t take her eyes off it so long as she was in line of sight of it, and when she went off to hide in the bedroom she walked way around it.
She will let me pick her up and carry her past it, but she tenses as we approach it. For now I put a bit of cat nip in the carrier and left it near the door to my bedroom so she’ll walk past it sometimes if she maintains her usual habits. It appears to be working somewhat – she has gone and sniffed at it and she will walk past it calmly, though I was sitting on the other side of the room for both of those.
Earlier today Talore found a rather good hiding spot (except now I know to look there). I was getting lunch when I realized I hadn’t seen her in a while and she usually spends all her time in the same room I’m in when I’m home. Upon looking around, I discovered that she wasn’t even in any of the likely hiding spots (under the bed, sitting at the glass door to the balcony, etc). It turns out she was sitting in the window of my bedroom, between the glass and the blinds, and she didn’t make enough of a lump in the curtain that I have to block what light gets through the blinds to be obvious. I didn’t spot her till she poked her head out to look at me when she heard me moving around in my bedroom. I don’t know if she just wanted to see out or wanted to sit in the sunlight, but she wasn’t inclined to leave that window (too bad I forgot to get a picture of it).
And now since I’ve written a post about Talore, here’s a new picture:
