Day 99: Now that Merry weighs 13.5 pounds (at not quite 10 months old!), he's too big to be left in his carrier when I have to be gone. I still can't trust him alone and loose in the house, so I've taken to putting him in the bathroom. Up until now, I've been making a bed for him on the counter by folding up a fleece blanket, but I wanted him to be a bit more comfortable, so I purchased a "cushy bed" for him. To introduce him to it, I put it on top of the harpsichord where he usually naps, but he didn't want anything to do with the new smell and unfamiliar texture. Then I had an idea. He had responded well to a catnip toy his auntie Mousie gave him for Christmas, so I bought a little bag of mixed catnip and silvervine (a kiwi relative), filled one of his Squirrelly toys with it and put it in the new bed. He was quite interested in the scent, but only kept patting Squirrelly until the toy flipped out onto the floor. Then it was time for the sillies, and once the initial effects had worn off, I put Squirrelly back in the cushy bed. We went through this process several times over the course of the day, and by evening, Merry had accepted the new bed. He likes having a raised "pillow" around the edge.
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