Hello,

This my first post to this group, so please bear with me if this is
an all too common thread.  After purchasing my first house about six
months ago, A friend who was moving out of state offered me this cute
little bundle of fur that she was a foster mom to.  I took one look at
her and said yes.  So I moved her to my house, unfortunatlly durring
the course of remodeling the front room she found her way into the
cellar.  She loves it there, anytime I was home and awake she would be
hiding there.  At night she would come up and eat use the litter box
and look out the window from her perch.  For a while she cried at
night, but has since stopped.  I did manage to get her out of the
cellar for a month but she has  now broken the cat flap which I had
installed on the cellar door, so she is back down there.

I work Monday through Friday and can't spend alot of time talking
to the cellar.  It is going on three months since she arrived, and she
was a little over a year then.  How much longer do I have before she
warms up to me and will at least be in the same room as me.
Thanks for any advice,
Michael