Willa

Hi Steph, Things are going great here! We have fallen in love with Willa. She is finding her footing here. The first 5 days we rarely saw her as she was hiding under our guest room bed and only came out for food and a quick look around. Then she progressed to exploring the second floor...then sleeping with us at night. She is absolutely fascinated with our morning ritual of getting ready for work. She uses this time to check us out, play with our other cats and chase around the upstairs. She is just now finding the first floor - comes down for a few minutes than goes flying up the stairs. We feed all the cats a tsp of soft food for a treat when we get home from work in addition to their regular cat food.... as I am typing this to you, Willa is about 10 feet away, on the first floor, eating her afternoon snack with the other cats. She must really like the soft food as when her's is gone, she goes over and finishes the other cats' food as well. I am pleasantly surprised that my other cats are getting along so well with Willa. Our dominant male, Waldo, has given up his bed on our bed to Willa and now sleeps in the chair instead of with us. McDuff tolerates her playing with his tail and pouncing on him when he sleeps on the floor. The only one that we are having issue with is our shy female, Winnie. Winnie just likes to play by herself and when Willa comes too close Winnie hisses and runs away....which to Willa is one big game of chase. All we do is smile and laugh. I know that they will be great friends in the future as they both like to play. I think that Willa is getting used to Jon and me as well...particularly in the mornings we can walk right by her without her running away - and this week she has even let us be standing and bend down to pet her (and she purrs!)... prior to this time, we had to be sitting on the floor to pet her. Now that I know you would like to hear about Willa, I will write to you....and maybe in the next email I will be sending you her picture sitting on a chair by us! Thank you for all the kindness that you shown to Willa, Jon and myself. Because of your care, we have a new member of our family that brings more smiles to our hearts. Take care, Susan