With nearly 850 miles of road behind her, Polly is home! We had a quick and easy trip today after meeting Judy and Patti in Suffolk, VA. Many, many thanks to Judy and Siamese Rescue Metro for helping us adopt Polly!
She rode pretty quietly in the carrier for the first couple of hours. I sat in the back with her and she would talk to me occasionally but mostly just rested and seemed fairly relaxed. About an hour from home, I unzipped the top of the carrier to pet her and she popped out and started checking out the car! I quickly corralled her and soon she laid down in my lap and let me pet her. She even gave me a nose kiss! After about 30 minutes, she jumped back into the carrier and settled in again, very content. It was like she said "OK, I've checked you out now and I'm happy with you!"
We arrived home about 4pm, blocked off the kitchen, and let Polly out of the carrier. She circled the kitchen about 100 times, checking everything out. She is VERY well behaved - she knew what we meant when we said "no jumping on the counter" and "down" the one time she jumped on the kitchen table. And she has such a polite little "meow"! [Huge contrast to Ashes who could be heard "meoooooooooooowing" blocks away!] She drank about a gallon (in kitty measurements) of water and ate some Little Friskies salmon (ahhhh, I've so missed the aroma of cat food:-) She's still warming up to Randy [who she only knew as "the driver"] - he has a small battle wound from moving a little too fast to try to pet her.
Around 8pm, we could see exhaustion setting in. She tested out the carrier, a kitchen chair, the top of the dryer and finally settled into the basket with the blanket we smuggled (shhhhh!) off the plane a couple of weeks ago:-) She's sleeping with her face all tucked under her tail (smart cat - built-in eyemask!)
Hopefully tomorrow we can bring her up to the media room and introduce her to the Polly Perch!
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