Mazzy Reconciliation

Grafton rarely sees Mazzy, since our cat refuses to come out while our son is at home.  She'll usually just hide up in the office and wait for Grafton to go to bed before reclaiming the main house as her own.  And it's rather unfortunate that Mazzy is so averse to Grafton's company, because Grafton really gets excited when he catches a glimpse of the cat.

Today, we witnessed an interaction that gave us a glimmer of hope that someday these two might actually be friends, or that Mazzy might eventually tolerate Grafton. Dad had just returned home from a bike ride, and heard Grafton stomping down the stairs from the office.  When appeared in the den, he acknowledged my return, but continued with a task that he was clearly very focused on.  He went over to his pile of Matchbox cars, picked one up, and trudged all the way back up the stairs to the office on his own.  Worried that he was playing on the stairs unsupervised, Dad followed him up, only to watch him walk over to Mazzy and place the car down a few feet from her resting spot. Next to Mazzy was a small collection of cars that Grafton had apparently already brought up to share with her.  (As it turns out Mom was upstairs watching all this unfold.)  With us both up in the office, Grafton headed back down to the down to pick up yet another car to give to Mazzy.  Which he did.  Realizing that Mazzy had enough cars to play with, he went over to his block pile and brought one block after another over to Mazzy.  All the while, Mazzy looked less than thrilled that Grafton was approaching so closely.  But she refused to run away, as she had always done in the past.  And Mom had been warning Grafton that he shouldn't get too close to the cat, or she would get upset and run away.  He understood this and obeyed the rule, and was therefore able to enjoy perhaps the longest interaction with our cat to date.