Quote Originally Posted by jenluckenbach
Your Taranis sounds exactly like my foster cat Lizzie (coincidence, huh?)

Is you home physically divided between the upstairs and the downstairs? or do the cats just tend to stay on "their" own floor?

My own home is divided with a door to keep the foster cats on the 3rd floor and my own guys on the 1st and 2nd floors.
I seems to me that if you are going to get a difficult to know cat, it's going to be female. Funnily enough, the only male cat I bonded with was the most difficult (I'm not talking about destructive behavior, he didn't do any of that) and I still miss my Artful Dodger dreadfully (he died in October).

The upstairs is the main floor since my house is set into a steep hill, and has my bedroom, litter room, dressing room, bathrooms, and open plan kitchen, dining and living room. That open plan business looks attractive but when Loki started spraying on everything in the kitchen, I couldn't shut him out. Downstairs is the daylight basement with a large living room and two bedrooms. There is a door on the downstairs area but also a childgate at the top of the stairs so Big Ted doesn't go down and spray outside the door. I wish I'd never had to split up the house but I had to take in a neighbor's cat and he sprayed. There were dark days in the past when I used to feel as though I was living in a cat toilet. At one point, about ten years ago, I had Sesat and Roo (feline leukemia) in my bedroom, Thor (a Persian foster with ringworm) in what became the dressing room, 7 cats in the main area, Sam and Bete in the living area downstairs, and Macduff being socialized in one of the downstairs bedrooms. It was chaos running in and out of rooms feeding, watering and littering. I also had to strip off all my clothes every time I came out of Thor's room so that the others didn't get ringworm.

Thanks for the welcome, everyone.