I cut about half of my list. NONE OF THE CUTS WERE FOR PERSONAL REASONS. I cut either dead journals, journals of people I haven't been able to keep up with, or people I think I've just grown apart from. My list was too huge and I've been horrible at reading my friends page as it is - I just wanted a smaller more manageable list. I'm sincerely sorry if you were cut. I know how it feels. :(

I burned the roof of my mouth royally on my breakfast sandwich this morning. Holy cow.

Anyway, serious question for those of you with kitties.. or just anyone's opinion, really.

Tortoiseshells, as a rule, can be jumpy. Paisley definitely fits this. She runs and hides when someone knocks on the door or when she thinks I'm about to try to pick her up. She certainly hides from her cage. She fights me every step of the way, and once she gets IN the cage she's perfectly fine. She doesn't even mind being in it. It's just GOING in it that she hates. But it's obviously a part of life, and to keep her healthy and happy she doesn't get that she NEEDS to go in it. I scheduled a vet appointment for tomorrow morning at 10am. What I'd do when I was living with my parents was I would have my mom be standing by with the cage, somewhere out of Paisley's sight, and I would pick her up and my mom would then come in with the cage. Now that I don't have a second person to help (and man I wish I did), what I did last time was set the cage in the other room overnight with the lid open and let her see it. If she was ever near it and I would approach her, she'd dart, but over time she got used to seeing it there and would play with me in the family room, etc. But it took 6 hours for me to really get a good shot at grabbing her to put her in there. I'm not sure if I want to try this approach tonight or not. 1) I really don't want to immediately set it out and have Paisley not wanna play with me, but I know that's a selfish reason 2) I'm scared of it not working this time because she'll know the last time it was sitting out, she ended up going in it.

So I'm just asking you how you think I should approach the cage thing this time. Either set it out when I get home and then pray I can get her in sometime tomorrow morning or try to take it out of the closet when she's in the other room and then carry her in there. I also really do secretly hope that with time her fear of the cage will go away. It's actually gotten worse over time, not better, and considering I had her in that cage during a very traumatic experience (moving/the plane), I doubt she'll ever calm down about it.