Subj : Re: Posts
To   : Barry Martin
From : Nancy Backus
Date : Fri Feb 14 2020 01:14:32

-=> Quoting Barry Martin to Nancy Backus on 07-Feb-2020 08:57 <=-

 NB>>> And for me, it also can depend on how alert the brain is being at
 NB>>> the moment... sometimes mornings are better, sometimes not.... ;)
 BM>> Just what we need: more lerts!  Yes, sometimes the brain just isn't
 BM>> into something, though I will admit to what sometimes seems like
 BM>> procrastination, dragging one's heels, and the like is sometimes
 BM>> because something isn't right in the overall scheme of things.
 BM>> Universe say 'ugh-ugh'.  And sometimes it is just wanting to sit on
 BM>> one's rump and not do anything.
 NB>> But there are days when that's exactly what is needed, to not do
 NB>> anything, and give the body a chance to recharge... :)
 BM> Agree.  Some things are urgent and need to be done _now_; most not so
 BM> urgent.  And for me sometimes those breaks are when ideas percolate
 BM> through.
 
And I've just had a couple of days where I needed to do some other
things, and didn't have the oomph to do messages as well...
 
 BM>> We didn't have any issues.  She had some fear/concern/confusion
 BM>> initially -- we had been told she had been abused by her previous
 BM>> owner but other than than pretty much no history.  And yes, I'm quite
 BM>> sure she didn't understand why she was in a shelter and then going for
 BM>> a ride with New People -- and staying at New House??  Yes, I'd be
 BM>> confused too!
 NB>> Animals that have been abused, or had other trauma, generally do
 NB>> respond well to gentle loving care by new owners... She might well
 NB>> have had at least an inkling from the start that things would be
 NB>> better now... :)
 BM> Seems so. :)  In the car on the trip from the shelter to home (I
 BM> wasn't driving) she just laid on my lap: alert as not quite sure what
 BM> she was getting herself in to but otherwise relaxed and maybe even
 BM> thankful as it seemed things were going to be OK now.

When we brought Richard's grampa's cat home to live with us after his
gram died also, Ming seemed to have a similar reaction... Nobody else in
the family wanted him, he was a older, somewhat irrascible Siamese, but
we just told them that we had promised Gram that we'd take him if she
went first... He lived with us for another 4 years, and turned into
quite the love sponge... definitely acted as though he'd been given a
new lease on life.... :)
 
 BM>> ...Poor thing had to stay in the basement the first few nights: we
 BM>> weren't sure if she was properly housebroken or would 'react badly'.
 BM>> I did go down and check on her -- "warned" her I was coming so
 BM>> she wouldn't be frightened.
 NB>> Better safe than sorry, and I'm sure she responded well to your tone
 NB>> of voice, which I'm sure was reassuring... :)  And after the first
 NB>> few nights, you could let her check out the rest of the house and
 NB>> settle in.... :)
 BM> Yes: strange noises in a strange place.  I had plugged a night light
 BM> in the outlet at the workbench so she could see her immediate
 BM> surroundings - to me seemed would be less scary for her.  No accidents;
 BM> a couple of days later she did get moved upstairs into what was then my
 BM> Computer Room.

And settled in as one of the family, no doubt...  :)

ttyl      neb

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