she is getting where we can handle her at will but she isn't fond of it, she
is a very shy girl who prefers men to women, tonight when we let her out for
her exercise, we brought Chester to be introduced to her, she was more
aggressive towards him than he is used to, he wanted to lay and she
interpreted it as a minor threat so when she slapped him upside the head he
withdrew, then I brought out Trudi, who basically doesn't like other cats
but is closer to her size and if left alone shows no overt aggression,
Barbie went up to her to play and Trudi just walked off, then we brought out
Stormmee, who is a bit smaller than Barbie, they kick boxed and played a bit
but then just ignored each other.

we are now ready for the next step, when DH is finished with his reading we
will go to bed and just quietly open Barbie's penthouse door and see what
happens... the other 3 are larger than her and will ignore her.

it was funny to see Stormmee's reaction.  She went into the penthouse and
inspected it, Looked at DH like, how come she got it remodeled with this
swanky bed. and I am the smallest so I should get this toy also.  After we
put Barbie back in the penthouse, Stormmee went to the bars and tried her
hardest to remove the jingle ball through the bars, Barbie jus laid in her
bed and smirked,

Lee