Anticipatory Grief (...and transitions)

Congrats on the new member of the family!

Umbran said:

My wife started to give the kitten some treats, and apparently between one treat and the next, a switch went off in her little head, and shy went away.

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Cats are so funny this way. I had a cat when I was in my teens. A relative had a barn cat who had a litter and he was one of her kittens.

When we first brought him home he hated all of our guts. I remember having to put on big winter gloves to safely fish him out of the big dog crate we were keeping him in at first to clean out the litter and what not.

Anyway.. A couple of days in I was getting really impatient with this cat not loving me, so I scooped him up, wrapped him in a hand towel so he couldn't gut me, and just sat with him on the edge of my bed petting him for half an hour.

After that, for whatever reason we were best buds. He went from wanting to murder me, to sitting on my shoulder like a pirate's parrot in one afternoon.

Congrats on the new family member. She's adorable.