Happy Cat Family

Hi Furriends, Bugsy Here!
Now it is for Real! The gate is finally down, Gracie is in the house!
Today marks the 4th day of Gracie coming down to explore the house and meowmy finally feels secure enough to let her out for good...
Days one and two she came out for only about 10 minutes each time, and the reaction was pretty much what you saw on the video.
Day three, yesterday, the gate was down for about 3-4 hours. She came out a couple of times, explored the house, hissed a few times and went back to the bathroom on her own.
Today the gate was down the whole day. She came out a few times, but this time she hung out in the living room for a while. She did hiss a few times, but also laid down in there with all of us for about 30 minutes just relaxing "watching TV"... She did this twice! All of us kitties were in the room, everybody relaxed, just laying in there... We were not playing or running around, but didn't flee the room either. She did hiss at us a few times whenever one of us approached her, but there were no threats, no claws showing, no movement towards us, no back arching, nothing that would indicate a fight...
After a while she just got up, stretched and went back to her bed in the bathroom, where she is now.
On the health front, she is doing wonderful!
She is gaining weight, meowmy says she can feel much less of her spine bones now! She seems much much happier now and soooo much sweeter! Sometimes meowmy goes in there to give her love and she just meows meows and melts in her hands. It is sad to realize that she might never had this kind of love and care before :(
Even though she came infested, covered with fleas, there are no fleas to be found on her now - she must be feeling much much better without those pesters on her too!
Anyway, just wanted to update you all! It seems we are on track here... Wish us good luck!

Hi furriends, Lucky here!
After 10 days in the bathroom, meowmy thought Gracie was ready to explore the house and meet us face to face.... WRONG! It was a hiss fest!
We are all doing better with her here, but furriends, we got to admit, we like her better in the bathroom, thank you very much!
Meowmy even put some stinky stuff under our chins to make things easier - some cake baking stuff called vanilla or something like that... She sprayed the house with Feliway.......... and out Gracie comes... to OUR house!
The whole thing lasted about 5-10 minutes or so and luckily Gracie seems to have some common sense (apparently unlike meowmy); she went back to the bathroom on her own...
Meowmy says she is going to take it slowly... let her out a little everyday.... Thank goodness!
You know, Gracie can be a sweet thing, but gee, her hiss is reeeeaaaalllyy scary!
The video of her first explorations is below -
Happy Friday furriends!