Say hi to the new girl

[Catlyn]

It must be much more invasive for the spays I can imagine! I've only had boys but I have heard that spaying recovery can be very tough!

Yeah, that's why i've been fussy tonight. I've read loads on spays being harder/taking longer to recover from than neuters, and the fact that Iris had harboured a cancer about to knock on her health, it mustn't've made it easy. Besides, she's only been with us since sunday, so she was still in the middle of getting to know her new home. I could've waited a bit longer with her spay, but with her narrowly escaping a potentially lethal and totally preventable illness, boy am i glad that we went with the nearest time presented to us.
She's been about 4 hrs without me hovering around her, she has her hay, greens, pellets and a lower litterbox, so i'll see in the morning if she's eaten anyting noticeable. I don't think that she'll waddle over to her bottle, but we'll see.

 

[Catlyn]

Well, Iris has been doing great in her recovery. I don't know where half the stitches have gone, if she's eaten them or they've dissolved. Only one on either edge of the inscision jabe remained. Still, only a teeeeny weeny bit of redness at the very cut, and a lil crust. No swelling, no oozing, no more blood spots in her pee.

They have collaboratively decided to forego all signs of love at first sight.
Storm would just pass through the room and Iris would have her ears perk wide and hard forward, tail raised and neck stretched, schnozz peeking out through the door grid. I'd pet Storm to stay still when he was almost right next to her crate, his toe got too close to her reach and it got snifded, then nipped. Storm didn't like that and blindly started grunting whenever i tried to guide him away.

I don't plan on initiating any real bonding attempt until a week after Iris has fully healed, but i will postpone if the situation requires. I hope they can figure out their dislikes in a somewhat nice and calm way and that they would eventually try to get along.
Boy is it going to be a long bumpy ride but i really really wish for the end result to be them accepting one another.