full circle

Jessie has been here very nearly a week. We locked her in our bedroom for the first couple of days. She cuddled with us on the bed and got very comfortable in there. Only problem? She started claiming it as her turf, and when we let her out into the rest of the house, she got angry at Cocoa when he ventured into the room she'd just left. Same with the armchair in the living room, it's her turf and she huffs at him when he comes too close. Territorial little thing.

Cocoa's perturbed by her noisy outbursts, nervous and wary, but not undaunted. He periodically ventures close, they make eye contact for a long beat, two statues, one black and one white, and then someone breaks the tableau and saunters off.

I think it'll be okay. May take a while before they're friends, but I think they'll get there.

In the meantime, here are more pictures of our new little lady. And, TC, you're right, she's not yet a longhair. By the time she's two, maybe three, she will be.