I called to confirm picking up Melbcat tomorrow, she's been such a good cat. I'm going to get the cold shoulder for abandoning her when she gets home though :(
it's actually not even butthurt - cats are used to having each other randomly disappear then reappear like nbd. The making obsessively sure they're near you is the enthusiastic welcome back jumping and facelicks of the cat world.
Oh baby girl is social and crawls into laps for fun. She rolls over for belly rubs with people she knows, and in her old home she used to sit on the low wall and get pats and chats from passersby. She's not fooling me!
I hope it's just being a bit shaken and readjusting. I hated doing that but knew it could be a long wait, and I needed to make sure she was properly looked after if I was unexpectedly longer in the hospital.