I seem to be picking Newboy up tonight......

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Currently in the middle of making arrangements to meet - he's a breed rescue - and yet to check over the house for 'breakability' issues etc. (He's only young - and it's a good few years since I had a cat that could potentially leap living with me.)

Yikes!!

Twice in the last two days, he's stayed where he is on the staircase and has allowed me to go upstairs past him before diving down to the kitchen to get his nosh. (The 'in-between' time he hissed at me so I'm not taking it too positively.) Ruddy Siamese.

Better than mine - I can't walk past either on the stairway they just run in a panic, I think it's because it's enclosed.

Ha! I've been on holiday for 2 weeks and assumed NewBoy would be all affectionately bonded by now... seems you REALLY weren't kidding about Siamese and their bonding

Pic is lovely- what do you think, thread hits 1K and he's still regarding you with suspicion, Cosie?

I fear that the fight we had to get him in his box for the vet - and it was a fight - set us way back. Into negative territory really. I should have listened to my instinct and not taken him for his booster. Hey Ho. If he's still this way come next booster renewal, I'll have to have a long hard think about things.

In the meantime, we have an .......accommodation.

He sounds like a highly intelligent and sensitive cat. I'm sure once the process is complete he'll be a wonderful companion. People tell me I 'got lucky' with my cats - they both bonded to me immediately, and Z is the kind of cat who accepts other cats, so she treats Bibi like her naughty kitten or bad little sister. If I'd had them the other way around, Bibi would not have accepted Zara.

He's spoken to me three times today. I think that each time it was a remark on how dilatory I was being in his food delivery but Hey. It's Communication.

It's a start. What does he do during the day?.

Mainly, sits. (Ignoring his toys and activities, me, etc etc.

He spoke again this morning.

You mean he has had to complain to you three times today.

Only once, today. (Only one meal so far. )

Hard not to. The food motivation is strong in this one........ He's particularly fond of chopped up cold roast chicken. (And the Nature's Menu Country Hunter snacks - which are now shut in a cupboard after the bad thieving episode. )

You'd think a détente would be in the offing if you're providing roast chicken! Mind you, he probably just thinks ' 'cos I'm worth it' and you should feel honoured to be able to wait on him.

Will he let you admire him or does he go for cover?

No Touch. That's his motto.

He's learned the 'periodicity' of food in this household. (Very quickly indeed.) Roast chicken is regarded as an 'entitlement' type of nosh.

Two yowls for his 21.00 nosh.

No Touch. Argh - you are so patient! I can't imagine having a cat I couldn't touch for over a month.

Speaking for his food sounds good though. He's coming round slowly to the idea you're not all bad...

Well I don't really have any option but to be patient.

I could have waited until he'd seen his own vet - which would have avoided the confrontation - but I fear he or his housemate might not have lasted that long. Siamese take a turf war very seriously.

I must admit, though, that I'm looking forward to seeing his personality in the round. All I'm getting at the moment is the pride and the toughness, The soppy side will be interesting.

How do you think it will progress? Will you be on the sofa, reading the paper and he will jump up on the other end and take a better look at you. Or will he make his way to your bedroom and you will wake up to a pair of eyes upon you?

Would you make the first move? Extend a hand to rub him while he is eating.

He comes into my bedroom the minute I switch my lights out - has a drink of water and, yesterday, used the extra tray there. I just don't know how it will go - it's his call.

He's not used to sleeping in bed though. (In his previous house, he and his housemate had separate and clearly defined quarters.) I shall be interested to see what happens when the central heating goes on.

He wouldn't be tempted, I fear. He doesn't know what beds are for. (And the big bed has The Creature in it, in any case.)

At the moment he sleeps on a fluffy rug in a cupboard. (Eschewing, I should say, a plush cat bed and the bed(s) in his activity centre.

If I were to put the heating on it would only be for his sake.

I don't think he likes fish or seafood much. Maybe some sirloin!