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Kitten is getting along okay. The more freedom we give her, the less frantic she is to get into everything at once, and the better we all get along. She and Penny are doing okay, though Penny's not thrilled with quite how often kitten wants to leap on her. She's tolerating it pretty well, though, sometimes returning play and sometimes giving kitten the smackdown; I just don't like to see patient Penny hissing. Kitten is pushy, in the manner of kittens, and so Penny doesn't get to play with her toys as much as she used to, unless we make a point of distracting kitten elsewhere so Penny can chase the feather too.
But kitten had the run of the house pretty much all weekend without significant incident, and we left her out when we went to work today. The only times we put her in the den were when I finished cooking dinner (or she'd have been on the counter going after the turkey), when we needed to go in and out of the garage to do laundry and take out the garbage (or we'd have had to fish her out from under the car half a dozen times), and when she woke up at 5am and wanted to romp across the bed and attack our feet and crash repeatedly through the window blinds (other than that, she slept pretty nicely on the bed).
She's awfully cute, and she loves sleeping in laps and being held upside down (sometimes both at once). She does not talk much unless she has a particularly urgent demand, like being let out of a room, or being given that plate of food you are holding, or needing help because her paw is stuck under the toilet seat. (Which happened.) She is very, very soft.
I want to call her Katie (I have no reasons, it just feels like her name) but Ken thinks it sounds too much like "kitty," which I guess it sort of does, at least the way he says "kitty" when he coos it at a cat. But I don't really see that as an insurmountable problem. He still wants to call her Noodle, but I think that's a better nickname than actual name. He could use it as a nickname as much as he wanted! We called Toeffe "Buddy" more than half the time, probably. It just wasn't his actual name. Ken named the last cat, I think it's my turn.
But kitten had the run of the house pretty much all weekend without significant incident, and we left her out when we went to work today. The only times we put her in the den were when I finished cooking dinner (or she'd have been on the counter going after the turkey), when we needed to go in and out of the garage to do laundry and take out the garbage (or we'd have had to fish her out from under the car half a dozen times), and when she woke up at 5am and wanted to romp across the bed and attack our feet and crash repeatedly through the window blinds (other than that, she slept pretty nicely on the bed).
She's awfully cute, and she loves sleeping in laps and being held upside down (sometimes both at once). She does not talk much unless she has a particularly urgent demand, like being let out of a room, or being given that plate of food you are holding, or needing help because her paw is stuck under the toilet seat. (Which happened.) She is very, very soft.
I want to call her Katie (I have no reasons, it just feels like her name) but Ken thinks it sounds too much like "kitty," which I guess it sort of does, at least the way he says "kitty" when he coos it at a cat. But I don't really see that as an insurmountable problem. He still wants to call her Noodle, but I think that's a better nickname than actual name. He could use it as a nickname as much as he wanted! We called Toeffe "Buddy" more than half the time, probably. It just wasn't his actual name. Ken named the last cat, I think it's my turn.
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Katie is a great name for her. You could always name her Katie Noodle Keys, which has pleasantly palindromic initials, and then you can both get what you want out of her name.