I thought you might appreciate a photo of Surya (was Beans) in his new home, at long last. He isn't easy to photograph when he's moving around and when he looks at the camera, it always ends up showing him as having glowing greenish irises although they are actually a dark gold. I need to work on taking a movie of him. He loves his folded over comforters on the floor with just a flannel pillowcase over them. I bought him some big and fluffy pet beds but he prefers something harder and flatter.
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We are still going through a settling-in process. He seems to be doing well on his new diet of venison and field peas, dry, but we have to wait some weeks to see if it really is working. After dealing with piles of poop and pools of pee in the kitchen, hall and living room, I ripped out the carpet in my hall closet and installed litter boxes so he wouldn't have to go far in any direction for a litter box. That worked for one day, and then back to random pooping and peeing. Now I've cut back his free-roaming area to three bedrooms, all with their own litter box areas (no living room, kitchen, etc.) and that's worked for the past day or so. The only problem is that some of the cats don't like having to jump over the gate to get from one area to another. I have to develop an easy method for them that Surya can't navigate. He also seems calmer in a smaller environment. Although he loved being in the larger area, he was more nervous and more aggresive to the other cats - biting them on the back when they were sitting quietly for instance (though only the black cats!)
