I have made wonderful progress with Merlin. While I still do not know if he is a she I have been able to get closer to Merlin than I had in the past.

Last night Merlin came up to the breezeway and jumped on the top of Tucker's house that I keep out there for her. He began to "meow" to let me know that he was outside. So I made a dish for him and went out and sat with him. While he was eating I managed to pet his head without him running away. He is still very scared at sudden movements but after he let me pet his head he moved closer and I was able to pet his entire body for a good 5 minutes while he ate his dinner.

I decided that I would go in the house and get him a toy mouse and sprinkle a little catnip on it to see if he would like it...well he took the mouse and rolled all over the breezeway and then when I snapped the first picture he took the mouse and RAN with it.

Here are a few pictures. Keep me in your prayers that Merlin will keep trusting me. He is such a beautiful cat.

Here he is with the mouse.


Here he is hidding from me with the mouse. He took it to my bird garden and went under one of the shrubs.


And finally on a "catnip high". It was almost an hour that he had this mouse and he really did tear it apart. It is missing most of it "fur".