særling is really coming into her own and learning how to be present. she has learned a large vocabulary since coming to be with us, and has abandoned some bad habits of her previous life.
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the first thing was to make sure she knows positive/calming words like nice and good and "it's fine" so we can calm her when there is, say, a loud noise
upstairs/downstairs, get up/down, back (when a door is opened that she's not allowed to go through
We'd ask our old cat Knute if he was biting when he got overstimulated from belly rubs or something, and he'd immediately switch to little licks on our hands while looking us directly in the eye.
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upstairs/downstairs, get up/down, back (when a door is opened that she's not allowed to go through
fetch, mousie
"are you biting?/scratching?"
*scritchie noises*
"Are you scratching?"
*pause....nibbling noises*