Originally posted by slick
Did I mention yet how cute his tail is?? I just love that little curly-cue at the end.
I do too, and he's always flipping that tip. Not the whole tail, just the tip.

Thanks everybody. Things are going as smooth as can be expected this morning. I almost let them both roam freely last night while we slept.....until I found CJ awake and alert at peering out the back window, and Peanut sitting at the edge of the kitchen peering in at him....and hissing! There were two bunnies at the bird feeder which he was watching intently. The whole scenerio reminded me too much of a few years back when we had a stray cat coming around and terrorizing T & P to the point where they attacked each other - in the middle of the night! I wanted nothing to do with that scenerio again, so I brought Jack in the bedroom with me and closed the door again.

This morning Terry and I discussed things and we decided we were doing things all wrong. Whenever Peanut would hiss at CJ, we'd start petting her and cooing to her, trying to calm her down - we were rewarding her bad behavior! So this morning he was handing out treats. Peanut started hissing so CJ got a treat and Peanut didn't. Terry started ignoring her and was talking to CJ and petting him and paying attention to him. Next thing you know, Peanut is in her little bed Cracker Jack walks by and by golly, no hissing! So maybe things will be all worked out by the time I get home tonight!

Oh, and as for the stand off in the doorway in the kitchen, Crackers usually doesn't even know Peanut is there until she hisses (she's quite sneaky), so she was hissing at him (yes, that's her in the background) and he just wanted to go up to her and make friends, but the hissing kept him at bay. I thought it was hilarious though that he rubbed the cabinet a few times, then said the heck with this, I'm going back to begging! He has even started turning his back on her when she hisses at him - how insulting! But I think it sends the right signal. I want nothing to do with your hissy fits so just get over it already!

Now I've got other problems though.....but will start a new thread on that.