Kitty Update #1

This is the fifth day that the kitties and I have lived together and I think we are making great progress.  Monday at some point they hid themselves under my dresser in my bedroom.  In order to get under there, they had to go back behind it b/c that access is blocked from the front.  When we chased them out from under it, Hannah went under my bed, and Candace went back to their room.  Well, Hannah has claimed the space under my bed for herself.

She was there most of the day on Tuesday and yesterday, even though I was also in the room most of the day.  By the end of the day on Tuesday if I laid on the floor with my arm under the bed and called to her, she would come so that I could pet her and purr like a motorboat.  I haven’t been able to really pet Candace b/c she spends most of her day behind the bookscases where I can see her, but can’t really reach.

What makes me the most sad is that even though Candace will come to me so that I can pet her, she regularly looks behind her as if she’s checking for an ambush and if she gets too close to poking fully out from under the bed, she retreats a little bit.  It’s so sad to think what used to be done to them.

Well, they’re definitely warming up.  This morning I found them cuddled together between the bookscases.  Even though, I can’t fully reach them, I can stick my fingers in there.  Hannah began rubbing her head on my hand, then Candace pushed her out of the way to get to me, then they both started purring.  Candace also likes to talk to me.

They’re progressing much more quickly than I expected.