Cave Girl Goes to Camp

Well it's the day before we leave for New Mexico and it's time to get Cave Girl settled in her new home for the next 3 weeks. Cave girl is just barely tamed and does not know what's in store for her. We have a transport cage that we will need to get her into so that we can take her over to Mari's place. Well, the hour has arrived. We get her into the travel cage and she is miserable. Screams howls, yowls, growls, all the sounds you never heard from a cat. We get her over to Mari's, and put her in her cubicle inside the barn which will be her home for the next 3 weeks. As soon as we open the door to the travel carrier, she runs to the corner behind the wooden pallets. Then, she climbs the plywood wall to the top of where the plywood ends, looks down between the wall stud cavities and decides to go down inside the wall, where she is now blocked from going further. She now starts to howl again, scrambling around inside the wall. She then begins to claw her way back up out of the wall cavity. When she reaches the top, she hangs on the edge of the plywood and looks at us as her arch enemy. We then leave her to her own devices since that seems to be what she wants in order to calm down.

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