Anxiety Diminishing?

When Lisa, Felix and Thunderthighs were kittens

Nothing much in the archives so I thought I’d use this one a couple of days late.

3 November 2023 at 16:32

Ever since Kitty the mad cat went out one dark and stormy night and never came home, and little Lisa met with a car outside our house, Thunderthighs has been very anxious about keeping the cats in. 

Even in the light summer nights he hates to let them out after 8pm and is up and down the stairs like a thundering humungous yo-yo, peering out the back and front until they are in.  

I eventually get fed up, give in and go and call or whistle for them once it gets dark.

In the winter he's even worse.

However...

Last night about 7.30 he comes into the living room 

"Felix is by the back door desperate to be out."

"It's up to you."

Much to my surprise I heard the back door open and shut.

When he came into the living room I said "Well done.  Now pull back that back curtain so we can see him when he lands back on the windowsill."

Which he did, and went upstairs.

Half an hour or so later I spotted Felix glaring through the window so I went to let him in.

I thought Thunderthighs would hear the door and come downstairs.

Nothing.

In fact it was around nine before he descended and spotted Felix, much to his delight, sitting on the inside windowsill being warmed by the radiator.

Maybe that one little bit of anxiety is diminishing.