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When Teen Kiddo was small, one of my two cats determined that if he was in the right spot of the house, he could make a "mom" sound and I'd come running because it sounded like my human child. Double points when he'd bang on one of the doors so I thought Kiddo had trapped themself somewhere. So whether or not that's what he thought if me as, he certainly knew it would get my attention.
Clever little stinker.
(Related: Little Dude's first word, far younger than he ought to have been talking, was "mama" -- though I'm not sure if he understood it was me so much as his sibling said it to make me come over, so it was a good way to summon me.)
Sympathies on the complaints. I hope you and your wife are able to recover with a bit of rest, and that your kitty adjusts soon.
And good luck with the bed frame. I've helped a couple friends move into older houses, and it's always an adventure.
Maybe you can arrange 'play dates' for your Maine Coon and your daughter?
Funny, I just re-watched a show about a renovation show on a 1700s-era New England house and they had to cut in pieces a cabinet to get it up the twisty narrow stairs and then reassemble it in the bedroom. The bed's mattress was a new 'rolled-up' in a box one, and they barely got the frame up there. Would your frame fit in pieces through the windows if you could lift it up somehow?
Mary
Mary,
The bed is a Divan Bed - basically a raised platform for a matress to be put on. The base is a box frame of low quality softwood stapled together with a fabric covering and two drawer runners for drawers to use part of the wasted volume. It's made cheaply and sold at moderate price. It's simply not worth modification, and she's going to want a double bed in the medium term, anyway.
We need the bed in the back bedroom, but the back window is narrower than the front and is directly in line with the chimney brest, meaning that is impossible to get the divan in. It may be possible for the bed to cross the upper stairs landing, so the front bedroom window is an option as it's wider and in the middle of the room (not in line with the chimney).The upstairs front window is a tilting PVC window and has a much smaller opening than the 48" wide sash window it replaced. It may be possible to get the bed base through, however, as mentioned, it's probably not worth the effort to persist with it. The base is light enough for me to lift with 1 hand, but it is bulky and hard to manoeuver.
If the bed were an antique, of particular emotional value to her or intrinsically valuable, we would do it, but it's just a couple of years old and isn't an expensive item.
When it comes to play dates for the daughter & cat. Yes, I agree. These are not entirely without problems, though. Ozzie is a cat, and behaves like one. Which means he wants to punish daughter when she returns by ignoring her for at least 10 minutes and then he doesn't get too close for half an hour, and the down side is that he mopes for hours after she leaves again. I don't know which is best for him, play dates or complete cutting of contact. I feel cutting contact for 6 months could be better in the long term.
Whatever happens, she's not having him. He's not road savvy, and her road is busy - there are never any parking spots, and while traffic speeds are low, he could have problems. Maine Coons are rare here, so when let out into her garden he'd roam well beyond her tiny garden & would run the risk of being trapped & stolen even though he's chipped - there are 34 gardens within the area he could easily roam and up to 100 if he goes a bit further without even crossing any roads. He has spent his life so far roaming over our 1 acre garden and into a number of others of similar size, and he couldn't become an indoor cat - he'd be so destructive not being able to get out, and the US option of declawing is illegal in the UK (would get the vet struck off too), not that we ever would. Also, there are other cats already there, and despite being a BIG cat, he's not a bossy cat and would loose every fight that came to him. He wouldn't enjoy a move. And at 13yo, I don't think he'd cope mentally with a move, either.
Regards,
Richard