The Story of Cricket, Part 2

The feral cat websites say that a feral kitten over 8 weeks old, may never be able to be tamed. And for every day over 8 weeks it takes a long time to get them comfortable. I guess we were lucky; James did hold her when he could, so she wasn't totally feral. But she definitely wasn't used to being indoors, and it has taken only a week to get her to start to trust us.

Friday evening (9/3) Cricket let Dave pet her, in fact she was bumping her head against his hand. She also has started to act like a kitten....Not sure whether that is good or not. She is playing (with everything and anything), climbing the curtains, dumping pillows on the floor, etc.....Curtains are the only thing I really care about (Is this where the term 'Curtain Climbers' came from?).

She has a toy mouse that squeaks, which she loves to pounce on. Friday night I ordered her a cat tree, hoping that will satisfy her urge to climb. Should be here next week or so, Amazon.com is pretty good about shipping times.

Today (Saturday), she stayed in the TV room with us and slept for awhile on the chair. She let's Dave rub her tummy, but still skitters away if she thinks you are going to try and pick her up. We absolutely love her, she is such a little doll. Since she is still a bit timid, we got her one of those emery scratching posts today, hopefully she will use it enough to file her claws down.

Her meows have definitely changed over the last few days, she still yowls (LOUDLY) if we aren't in the room, but she trills and mews quietly when we talk to her and play with her. She is a kick.


We keep working with her and talking to her as she makes advances in becoming a 'house' cat. She seems to be happy, she is eating well, playing and her curiosity is definitely up to par. She doesn't cry out anymore like she did the first few days (calling out to mom), so I think she is beginning to adopt us as 'big cats'.

More later.