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SINKING FEELING

John and I figured this out almost the same moment today.

Booker has gone through periods of being skittish about walking across the kitchen floor. The floor is no different than most of the rest of the house. White ceramic tile.

We thought that it had to do with slipping and worrying about it happening again. Maybe.

We also thought, perhaps, that he felt vulnerable and uneasy with his new house and life.

But he is not consistent. Sometimes he just walks over the floor as easy as can be. Oblivious to any threat.

Sure, sometimes that is around food or food times but even other times it would be OK and then, inexplicably, not.

The other thing is that he most often avoids the floor going north. So weird.

What I saw and John saw today is that there is, from some angles, a shine or glint from the lights on the floor. It makes it appear as though there is water on it. It is more obvious looking north.

Maybe, to him, it appears to be like a surface of water.

He is not averse to wading. He is way averse to immersion.

We think that he is seeing danger signs on the surface and is not going to risk going under.

This behavior had us freaked out. "Is he unhappy with the house?", "unhappy with us"

No. He is very happy with us.

But we are over that. We figure that if he doesn't want to walk on the tile today he doesn't have to. There are options.

He is quite contented in general. It is just that the floor looks weird sometimes. Which, of course, makes Booker look weird. Which he is not.

Another hypothesis. We shall see. Gather more data. Will report back.

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