Jackie update and moving on
Jackie-cat spent two weeks recuperating from her surgery in my place. She did great. Ate her pills in their pill pockets like the treats they were, and was very sweet. When I petted her in the recovery cage, she purred and rubbed her head on the bars of the cage, and rolled back and forth in bliss. Last night, I left the cage door open, and she took the opportunity to have an explore around the place. This was a good test of her sociability. She didn't bolt or hide, just wandered about checking the place out. Tumbleweed and Macaroon each had a hiss at her, but she wasn't much fazed. She went back to the cage, her safe place (very briefly), any time she got nervous, then came right back out. After about 20 minutes of easy exploring, with little visits back to the, she went back into her cage for a few minutes, kneaded her towel
and purred.
Here's a photo of Sodapop checking out her digs right about then, and through that I was sitting four feet away and could hear her purring and she was still kneading her towel. She loooooves Sodapop.
My two cats who hissed at her kept their distance as she came back out again to check out more of the place, but but she's wasn't afraid to walk near them. Jackie's going to be great as a housecat.
Today, she went to the vet again to have the sutures from her eye surgery removed. And I handed her off to feral cat feeder Jennie, who will be her temporary foster home for the next month. She's too tame to go back to the street.
On the way home from the vet, I walked past the place where Jackie and her former colony used to feed till last fall. The people who worked at this office fed them outside and inside their front door. This is what's at the front door now.
Yes, the sign on the vacant office (put there by the property owner who never liked the idea of the previous occupants taking care of the colony) says DO NOT FEED THE CATS. And yes, that's a cat dish on the ground at the right.
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