Introducing: The Knight of Night; Knight Night and Remembering Hope.
Whenever introducing a new pet into a household, there is always a concern whether or not they will all get along. Animals have a large non-verbal vocabulary with which to communicate, and some signals are so subtle they are easy to miss but can be hugely significant. As their human guardians, we do our best to interpret what we see and hope that what they are saying to each other is well received. After such a great meeting with Blue, I was hopeful that Opal would get along well with our other two cats. They, after all, had a tendency to either get along with, or tolerate, just about everything we threw at them, so I wasn't concerned about how they would receive the new addition. I was more concerned about what Opal would do. Thankfully her introduction to Knight Night was smooth, but she wasn't all that keen on Hope, and Hope didn't return a lot of the sentiment. Their introduction took longer, but eventually, they could coexist in the home without inflicting too mu...