Herding Cats
My apolgies first off to Wendy Christensen for pilfering for one second her specialty which is herding cats. But there is no other way to explain what is going on here.
We are remodeling and there will be workers in and out of the house. For that reason, all the cats need to stay inside the enclosure during the workday so that I don’t have to worry about a cat getting outside, or getting lost in the attic.
Yesterday, some workers were going to be here, so I put all the cats I could find into the tunnels leading to the enclosure, then we sealed up the side of the tunnels that lead to the house. This allowed the cats to either hang out in the tunnels or go into the enclosure. I thought I got everyone. I had shut the bedroom door previously so the cats couldn’t run and hide under the bed.
After the tunnel was sealed, and I did a head count. There was one kitten missing, and of course this was Bently, the kitten that bit me and she was hiding out in the bedroom. It was a good 45 minute herding expedition with a blanket, before I was able to capture her and put her inside the tunnels with the others.
We sealed up the one side of the tunnels with some lattice board, and that was also a mistake. Every time the cats heard us in the kitchen or the dining room, they would run from the enclosure into the tunnels and then bat at us through their temporary bars. Made me feel so evil. I just told them it could be worse, they could be in a small cage in a shelter.
Most of the time they hung out in the enclosure, and we learned not to make quite so much noise so they wouldn’t be drawn into the tunnels and make us feel guilty for denying them access to the house.
But now the upstairs bedroom is ready for our out-of-town guests and the next thing for me to do is redo the cat room. I need to set that up to accomodate all the cats instead of just one or two~