In January 2025, TYG dragged Snowdrop inside for fear the cold weather would be fatal.
After a couple of nights of wailing and hiding under furniture, he settled in quite nicely. I’m sure having Wisp around helped.
He’s very skittish about being petted. Wisp is always up for petting, he’s much more wary. And hates it when both TYG and I seem to be closing in on him.
However he’s establishing his own turf — he loves those poofs TYG recently bought (they double as bags holding extra sheets and blankets). And he’s never attempted to run out again, despite having had occasional opportunities (we try to minimize those, just in case). Overall he seems happy with his life as a pampered indoor cat: Wisp, easy food, comfortable places to sit, normal temperatures, no mosquitos—the summer before he came indoors, they absolutely mutilated his ears.
Four pets is a lot, but we’re glad the cat distribution network sent you are way, Snow-Snow. And not having to sit with you in the living room with the porch door open on freezing cold — it used to be the only way he’d come in and get warm — is a plus too.
I remember the Snowdrop saga as it unfolded, and am glad to hear he’s thoroughly happy being indoors. A friend of mine has a cat who’d been hers forever but wouldn’t come in the house often, but now he’s quite, quite happy to be indoors and isn’t at all fussed about being low cat on the totem pole. As long as there’s petting, soft furniture and noms, he’s good.
Sounds very familiar.