Progress with Carys being around Merlin [View all]

I'm trying to get Merlin to eat as much as he can so he will put on weight so I'm 'taste testing' some foods with him. Today it is tuna.

As I was dishing some out for Merlin, Madoc and Carys came trotting in to the kitchen. Of course they both got some, too. Now, Carys will gobble down her food and then invade the nearest sibling food bowl. She finished her tuna and then edged Madoc away from his. (I gave him more.) Then she looked towards Merlin's dish but didn't make her usual move. She only looked at him but then returned to trying to lick every molecule of tuna from her bowl and Madoc's. As long as Merlin was eating, she kept clear. (He likes tuna.) There were a few soft and very low demi-growls from her but that was it.

Finally, after Merlin was done, then and only then did she approach him. She gave his butt a quick sniff and then started in on the tiny tuna scraps he'd left.
Then she ran up and 'hid' beneath the table, on a chair. I think they are both still in the kitchen and I hear no chaos so maybe she's finally accepting him as much as she does any of the rest of us.

So I call that progress.