Gus, get off the table!

Half the time these days, when we address Gus it isn't to coo him to come to us, it's scolding him for being too bold! He gets up on the countertops in the kitchen, he gets on the table to check out what we're eating for dinner... Gus is not the shy little dude he once was!



He almost never hides anymore, although if you go in the bedroom, he'll follow you in there and hide under the bed until you leave again. I really think that once he's in his forever home, Gus will really become a normal cat. At first I didn't think he'd ever really warm up enough, that he would always be skittish, but now I really think that he just wants to be one of the gang, he just wants to fit in. I still think Gus does best when he has one or more other kitties he can follow around. He does really well in our multi-cat household, I think as far as he's concerned: THE MORE THE MERRIER!

He still loves wet food and treats, and he is still very food-motivated. Weirdly, he really prefers the chopped-up kind of canned food (not the kind in gravy, but the loaf type), stirred up really well into an equal amount of water, so he can "drink" it. He leaves a lot of the chunks, for which the dog is grateful. He still doesn't love the dog, but he is learning to ignore him.