Yep! You read it right. We have a new family member. Yesterday, I sent some questions to a pet mailing list at work, and following is an update I sent this morning, which sums up the story, so I'm pasting it here.
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Thanks to all of you who responded my email with helpful information, cautions, and friendly teases. I just wanted to send this email out as a closure to a thread I started, but I admit I'm just like any young parent who couldn't wait to show off her new baby.
So, here she is:
Her name is Little One, that's the calling she responded to when she first time came into our house sniffing around last weekend. She was our neighbors' cat and grew up with her sister, both about one year old now. They had two litters two weeks apart this May and she was the better mom taking care of all the kittens. However, after our neighbors got her spayed recently, she became standoffish and no longer wants to have anything to do with our neighbors and their other remaining cats including her own sister. However, she started coming to our back door whenever we were home and was not afraid to come in and loved to be petted. After some serious thoughts, my husband and I decided to adopt her and our neighbors were happy to hear about it because they couldn't even touch her any more.
Our neighbors let their cats run free during the day and let them into the house at night. I think Little One has been sleeping under our shed recently. We decided to turn Little One into an indoor cat. So, last night, we left her in the bathroom with her litter box, food, water, toys, and a sleeping cave (with heated Snuggle-Safe pad). At 2:30am, she managed to somehow turn the slippery door knob located 4 feet off the ground and broke loose. After we turned the lights on, we found her sitting in the rocking chair. Lucky for us, she did not hate us for locking her up because we were able to approach her without any problem, pet her, and send her back to the bathroom. She used the litter box last night. We want to make sure she uses it again before we turn her loose in the house.
Okay, that's the story of our Little One. Now, I need to work hard to earn her cat food. :-)
