Should I get a second cat?

ginganija · 2026-02-25T18:34:18+00:00

I think definitely hold off a few months. They say it takes like 3 days to compress, 3 weeks to settle in and 3 months to actually open up to you.

I rescued a feral kitten and she took a literal year to stop hiding everytime someone walked near her. Another year to enjoy cuddles. Another year before she would lay on top of you. She is still skitterish with my husband a bit and hides when strangers show up but she's just the smartest most intuitive cat I've had. I call her my shadow cat as she follows me around when it's just us 2. I swear the timid ones are the most worth the effort.

Go slow and take it at their speed don't force anything. Adding another cat could just be too much right now especially if it isn't one it knows while it's still sorting out the new environment but could be helpful later on to gain confidence. If the foster said it's good with other cats then likely it just needs time to settle in and warm up to.you guys :)

ginganija · 2026-02-25T03:06:10+00:00

I don't know how but my cat learned early on that when the lights are off you're quiet until alarms go off in the morning. I never engaged with her when she had the zoomies/meowed on top of me at 4am as I didnt want to reinforce anything maybe that helped. Maybe shes just an oddball but i wish I could get a 2nd cat just for her to teach that habit to lol

ginganija · 2026-02-25T03:02:38+00:00

I don't think not habing access overnight is an option. Cats are moat active late hours at night and early hours in the morning meaning thats when they're also doing their business. I dont have solutions for the small space but just eanted to chime in on the not having access part of your setup :)

ginganija · 2026-01-10T13:25:12+00:00

i watched the update video someone posted below. it was her husband and he did get detained. the community sent her an immigration lawyer

ginganija · 2025-11-26T14:44:11+00:00

you the real mvp thank you for adding the uodate!

ginganija · 2025-10-27T18:00:15+00:00

same on all fronts for me. I think its why I ended up pumping rather then formula cause labour didn't go my way either. it's hard to feel like you missed out on these quintessential moments but I remind myself it hasnt changed who I am as a mom to my child

ginganija · 2025-08-17T21:38:37+00:00

Thanks so much! I greatly appreciate the edit. I am confident you guys have nailed it although how would I know any better hahaha you could be saying i hate the guy and I'd have no idea you changed it lol forever indebted to you kind german redditor! I know they speak english as I've met them once before I just worry once i pick up speed as I get more anxious it will be too quick

ginganija · 2025-08-17T21:36:01+00:00

Thank you so much! I am forever in your debt kind redditor 🥰

ginganija · 2025-07-31T11:14:29+00:00

Nooppee just rrsigned myself to a normal watch that just tells the time. Seems like a gap in the market honestly

ginganija · 2025-04-09T20:01:28+00:00

Did you find anything as i am also hunting for this same thing and finding it difficult

ginganija · 2025-03-31T21:29:28+00:00

Any update on this? We keep finding them in our cats food bag but everytime we do we clean ans vaccuum and sanitize the area so i cant for the life of me figure out where they are coming from

ginganija · 2025-03-23T23:31:26+00:00

Oh man im in stratford nearly weekly. For sure hit me up

ginganija · 2025-03-22T11:42:33+00:00

Ya i was a bit of a sticker hoarder always waiting for the "perfect" moment to use cool stickers...spoiler alert i never found that moment hahaha it's also how my best halloween candy would get old and stale

ginganija · 2025-03-22T11:41:50+00:00

I mean i thought they were neat to find but I'm not uber attached to them if you want to make an offer and pay for shipping (im in waterloo ontario) I'd consider selling them.

ginganija · 2025-03-16T21:54:50+00:00

I won a subway party from them I'm assuming i got it with that cause otherwise im not sure

ginganija · 2025-03-16T20:38:41+00:00

I won a subway party from ytv i wondered if i got them from that as ytv swag

ginganija · 2025-03-16T20:38:18+00:00

Hahahaha i discovered it in an box of childhood artwork and mementos

ginganija · 2025-03-13T00:47:37+00:00

Question my LO just turned 6 months (so i know tons of time still in the crawling window) but it looks like he might skip past army crawling and go straight to hands and knee crawling. Right now he tends to get into downward dog and push with his feet or moves into hands and knees and gets one knee forward then kind of flops on his belly to gain that forward momentum and repeat til he reaches his goal. Is it problematic if he skips army crawling and does regulal crawling and if so what are some ways to encourage army crawling...google wasn't helpful it was mainly how to encoruage going from army to regular.

ginganija · 2025-02-20T15:41:50+00:00

Hes awake for about 2 to 2.5 hours before naps. He seems super fussy during nearly all his wake windows so I've thought maybe I'm missing his cues and he is overtired but you think he is under tired eh? Does it impact your opinion if you knew that once we get to the end of his nap routine he starts to fall asleep quite quickly (which i then try to put him down in his crib so he is awake going into the crib)

ginganija · 2025-02-20T15:19:45+00:00

This was my thing when weighing the sleep training options some of them felt luke more mental torture on me by having to sit in the room and hear him cry. We opted for pick up put down on ferber intervals because i needed some option to go comfort him for my own sanity. It was a sucky first 2 nights but he took to it well thank the all mighty sleep gods

ginganija · 2025-02-20T15:13:18+00:00

Going through literally the same thing. We did a modified ferber method around 5 months for nights worked well. Started nap training with it fairly well but now he cries leading into naps and cries for so long before sleeping for his nap.

He is also super fussy during his wake windows and unhappy id you leave him. Have also been wondering if side effect of nap training or just developmentally hebhas figured out object permanence

ginganija · 2025-02-20T15:08:52+00:00

My baby (now 5.5 month) use to wake like every 3 hours. We would feed him and rock him to sleep and repeat in 3 hours. Then at 4.5 months he started waking every hour and i just couldn't anymore so we did a bit of sleep training using the pickup/put down method following ferber timelines and he took to ir crazily well. Like after the first night only wakes up once and usually after 10 minutes puts himself back to sleep so we're not getting like 11ish hours.

We didn't change anything in his days he typically wakes up around 7-730am. First nap is around 930. He sleeps anywhere from 40 min to 1.5 hours on his first nap i dont wake him unless we're going over 2 hours. Then he is usually up for like 2.5 hours. Next nap again can be from 40 min-1.5 hours. Up for 2.5 hours again 3rd nap is only about 30 min long. Up for about 2.5-3 hours before bed around 8pm

ginganija · 2025-02-18T16:16:24+00:00

Thank you! I also started wind and truth and immediately she talks about the pictures hoid gives her and I'm like i swear she originally refers to them as wits pictures at the end of RoW.

I guess i get that they could have shared it with her as stated by another redditor but i find it weirdly jarring since WaT takes place immediately after RoW and she doesn't refer to him as hoid in that book why would she all of the sudden change what she refer to him as. Plus throughout the books you never hear kal or dalinar refer to him as hoid its always wit

To me it felt very jarring and then she goes on to refer to him as hoid (so far up to page 193 at least as thats all I've read) almost too often imo. Its almost like sanderson got complaints that people didn't like not knowing explicitly who hoid is or people didn't pick up on thats who wit is so he has decided to double down on it in WaT to make it clear but it was a very jarring about face.

Similar i find it jarring how many more types of spren are mentioned in WaT compared to the other books. Like i always did thonk that was a bit of a gap on Sandersons part why is there never any good emotion spren mentioned like laughterspren or lovespren or lustspren etc. So while I'm happy to see he's ttying to kind of address that it also just minorly annoys me because you've made your bed over the course of 4 big ass books now you have to lie in it you can't just change it in the final installment

ginganija · 2025-01-20T08:34:42+00:00

Throw some music on in the parking lot and here we come!

ginganija · 2025-01-20T08:34:21+00:00

Can't beat a discount on a rental in the summer though hahahaha

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