After a morning fighting one very determined cat who discovered, to his pleasure, that the keyboards of laptops are quite warm, and then insisted on sitting on them constantly (made for some interesting browsing options this morning)... we reached a compromise:

Lady Penelope is starting to appear in the main part of the house a little more, but is still much more timid.  Parker on the other hand regards the dogs as some sort of noisy rabble in the background somewhere and is pressing on with his plans for world domination.