Six Months of QQ?
At the end of March, it will be six months since QQ came to live with us. Not gonna lie, it hasn’t been an easy transition, what with the peeing and the pooping and the barfing and the fighting and the hissing and CAT do I not like her. But after all this time, us cats have kind of figured out a way to co-exist. It ain’t perfect (unlike me), but it’ll do.
Obviously I’m going to start with myself and how I’ve chosen to deal with QQ. It’s pretty simple, really. I don’t. I told the humans I was moving into their bedroom, and I wanted to be left alone. I come out periodically to make sure the other cats behave, but otherwise I just hang out in the humans’ bedroom where I have food, water, a litter box, and what happens to be the comfiest bed in the entire house. I can also watch birds and stuff, though I can’t eat them because there seems to be some kind of magic barrier that stops me from attacking them. And best of all, I don’t have to deal with QQ.
What about everyone else?
Goldie and QQ basically ignore each other. Sure, sometimes one of them might flatten an ear or two, but they don’t get into it.
Big Squishie and QQ don’t have much of a relationship either, which totally bums him out. Big Squishie, who can be super annoying because he just wants to lick everybody all the time, is actually pretty cool as cats go. He welcomes the new cats into the house, helps them integrate, and tries to make sure we all get along (which is easier said than done with 7 cats who are all super independent). Except for QQ, who doesn’t really want anything to do with him. He’s tried sniffing her a butt a few times, and he even almost got a lick in once, but she freaked out and hissed and ran away. He won’t stop trying, though, so maybe she’ll eventually come around and be ok with him (but I am SO not holding my breath!).
Larry, Mama, and Little Squishie….well, let’s just say QQ doesn’t love any of them. Since QQ moved downstairs permanently, she’s kind of taken over some of Little Squishie’s sun spots, which he’s not happy about. And she likes to hang out in the kitchen when the humans eat because she totally thinks she can have human food, and that ticks off Mama and Larry who also think they can have human food if they’re in the kitchen. So things can get interesting when those four are near each other.
But when I say interesting, I mean there’s some hissing and stuff, but nobody’s gotten injured, and at night when the humans sleep everyone behaves themselves.
So all in all, not too bad of an integration (especially for me, because I get a bed all to myself.)