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- From: sstover@sumax.seattleu.edu ( Wilde Dame)
- Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats
- Subject: Re: Should they fight it out?
- Date: 30 Dec 1992 23:24:45 -0800
- Organization: Seattle University
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- My goodness. I've had Clio for going on three months now. When I brought
- her home she was barely two months old and Hemingway was six months. It
- took them a night of separation to get used to sharing the apartment and a
- week or so to learn to play together and another week or so to learn to
- like playing together... it took two months, all told, for Hemingway to
- really adjust and get back to normal (he grew up a lot in that first night
- and refused to play fetch with me for weeks), but they are the best of
- friends now and I think getting Clio was the best decision (petwise,
- anyway) I've ever made.
-
- For the first few weeks, while Clio was still very tiny, I occasionally
- intervened with the squirt bottle if she started crying when she and
- Hemingway were wrestling, but I definitely let them duke it out. You'd be
- amazed at how well Clio held her own, and at how really disconcerting it
- was for Hemingway to have a toy that swatted back. They now have a very
- natural pecking order, including first-at-the-fresh-water and computer lap
- time privileges, and I feel I've done as little as possible to influence
- that. Seemed to help them become friends, and better friends too.
-
- Best of luck!
-
- --
- Sheryl Stover % If you ask me what I have come to do in the world,
- & Hemingway & Clio % I who am an artist, I will reply: "I am here to
- sstover@seattleu.edu % live aloud." -Emile Zola
-