We're all in our new routines now, having been in our new house for five weeks or so. The kits have outside access during the day, as they did before. However, some things have changed, and I can't work out if the changes mean they're happier, not-so-happy, or just .... different.
Meesha was never one for going far, she liked to survey the garden and maybe next door in the old place. Here, she hardly ever goes out, unless it's fine, but before she used to be straight to the catflap in the morning to do her 'rounds', here she doesn't even bother going to the door, let alone go out first thing. (I suppose she doesn't have her established territory now, and so has nothing to survey). I feel rotten. I feel like she needs her little patch. She goes out mostly if I open the french windows at the back, straight into the garden (the catflap is at the front) and occasionally wanders into adjacent gardens, but that's it.
Sabby doesn't seem to go off on his adventures anymore (for which I'm grateful) ... but is he happy? He's a LOT more interactive with me though, and unlike before, comes and goes all day rather than staying out for hours at a time. Usually when I call him he appears immediately! In fact, I can call him from inside the house and within moments he's through the catflap!
Incidentally, in the old place, they didn't show this behaviour when I first let them out. Which is odd - there were a lot more cats about in the old place. There's only 2 others round here as far as I can tell (although LOADS more dogs - but they don't seem to mind them at all). There are also a LOT of kids round here, where there weren't so many before, but again, they seem to have got used to their shrieks etc.
Shanti hasn't changed much, except that she's now first at the catflap in the morning .. in the last place she often hung around indoors for a bit. Otherwise, she's exactly the same as before.
So, good or bad? None of them are showing any behavioural problems (touch wood), but I'm just not sure whether they are entirely happy here.
