Stella wants nothing to do with me lately. At first I thought it had to do with the fact that I was the one who brought her to the new house and she hated me for that. She was mad because I took her away from the windows she loved and the places she liked. But she is still acting standoffish to me and she has a short memory so I'm quite certain it has nothing to do with that.
Here's what happens. Every morning, Stella gets up with us. She wanders around. She does her Stella thing. Then Rob leaves for work and that's when I first started noticing that she disappears. After he leaves, she is no where to be found. She goes to the laundry room to look out the window or to sleep under the bed. She is gone. Then I get home first and I call her. I find her, usually under the bed, sleeping and she lifts her head briefly. But otherwise she just stays where she is. She doesn't budge from her spot. Then hours later Rob comes home and she comes out as soon as he walks in the door.
It used to be that she would come out as soon as I got home and she would lay with me on the couch and nap with me and cuddle with me. But not anymore. If Rob isn't around neither is Stella. She wants nothing to do with me. She still sleeps on my side of the bed where she has always slept but otherwise nothing.
We have a theory. We have no backing and have no idea if this is even true. Lately Rob has told me almost every day that I smell good. I have done nothing different but he keeps acting like there is something different. So what we think is that there might be something different. Maybe with this pregnancy I smell slightly different. Rob loves my new smell. But for Stella, she doesn't recognize it, so right now I'm a stranger. If she sees me then she knows it's just me - like at night when she sleeps next to me. Although I should probably add that if Rob hasn't come to bed yet neither does Stella.
So when I get home from work, Stella doesn't recognize my smell so she continues to hide under the bed until a smell that she does recognize comes home. Which would explain why she hasn't been around. She has been hiding from me and wants nothing to do with me lately. It makes sense. Like I said we have no backing to this. It's just a theory. It's either the smell theory or she recently decided that she hates me. I much rather it be the smell thing....
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