I think I have a new kitten

I adopted Cedar early last December, EC. He was found roaming in the parking lot of an apartment complex by a friend of our IT person. The person sheltering him couldn’t adopt him, and IT told me there was a cat available. They brought him to the office building after hours. He had a raging ear infection that the person sheltering him hadn’t recognized. He went straight to my vet, and that’s how he joined our family. It was Penny and Kit back then, before Kit went to the bridge.
Cedar is a little less than a year and a half old. Sheree and he are not that far apart in age, but right now their developmental stages are very far apart.

This morning I let Sheree out of the bedroom for a while. Cedar followed her around. He seemed more curious about her than anything. He sniffed her and touched noses with her. Once he raced up to her, but stopped a short distance from her. I could tell where she was by watching Cedar.

I’ll let her out again this evening, but I’m still not going to leave her alone with the big cats until she gets bigger herself.

Well, I think I have a little spitfire on my hands, and I’ve already gotten mad at her. The spitfire part comes from my discovery that, when she and Cedar encounter each other and there’s growling, the growling is coming from her! Not unusual for a new cat trying to establish territory in a new home, but I think kind of unusual coming from a baby.
I got mad at her because last night she broke the bowl that Quinn had given me. (He’d gotten it at a fundraiser and didn’t want it, so he gave it to me.) It was sitting on the table by the sofa. She jumped up on the table and then jumped on the bowl, knocking it to the floor and breaking it. It broke into 2 large and 2 small pieces. I put Sheree in the bedroom and then put away the pieces. I’ll wash them and see if I can put them back together. It just hurt to have a gift from a friend whom I’ll never see again broken, particularly just due to a kitten’s exuberance.
I’ve had cats in the past who could have turned out difficult. The answer has been in treating them kindly and gently. They’ve always responded to that.

KJ, I’ve found that Elmer’s Wood Glue is the best thing going for gluing anything porous, and this bowl was made of porous pottery. I’m going to get a fresh bottle of it and give that a try.

I think this is going to be Sheree’s last day confined to the bedroom. She’s been out with the other cats when I’ve been present, and there haven’t been any problems. Cedar is attracted to her, but he doesn’t pounce on her like he does on Penny when Sheree is shut in the bedroom.

It’s interesting how much older Cedar seems now. Before, he seemed to be defined by Penny’s being 10 years older than he is, and he was her annoying little brother. Now he’s also a big brother, and he just seems more mature.