You can take the cat off the streets, but can you take the streets out of the cat? Sophie enters a house for the very first time ...
Sophie's arrival at her new residence can only be described as a stubborn stand-off! Travel case down, food and water in front, quiet corner of the house, leave her alone. As we all kept coming back to her from time-to-time to encourage her to explore, she remained resolute in her crouch ... didn't blink once (blind cat humour ... narrator is allowed to do that)!
It was well past midnight when, as the last remaining encouragement, I gave up and went to bed. 'Hmmm this might be a bigger challenge than I had already prepared myself for', was what I was thinking as I fell into a deep sleep.
Next morning ... gone! Small amount of food had been eaten and the cat carrier was empty ... Let the search begin. Eventually, after much frantic hunting, I sat down on the lounge ... and there she was behind the TV cabinet ... staring at me!
“Sophie is smart. Whatever nutritional deficits she had experienced, they didn't impact her grey matter. Her physical limitations are more than offset by her intelligence, her temperament, and her innate capacity to adapt .”
A fascinating game of 'Cat & Narrator' followed over the coming weeks as I observed how Sophie mapped and re-mapped the entire house over and over until she could run down hallways, turn corners at just the right time, and navigate her way out of any 'inside' dilemma. Sophie was starting to realise that a house was very different to the streets ...
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