Then I can't see an issue if it's only at night.
Mine stays in the kitchen at night as she scratches the furniture. If I'm not around to tell her to stop she'll wreck it.
A friend and the cat.
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Then I can't see an issue if it's only at night.
Mine stays in the kitchen at night as she scratches the furniture. If I'm not around to tell her to stop she'll wreck it.
Soldato
No way really except to tell them off and keep moving them down stairs. Even older ones will learn eventually. Best thing is just to keep doors closed in rooms you want to prevent access to.
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Regardless of whether it was your wife's pet before you met, you are married now and so surely it's your responsibility to?
Soldato
Agree but it will make disagreements somewhat more complicated.
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I mean, it's literally and legally your property since you are married.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/9968640/How-the-law-views-cats.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/9968640/How-the-law-views-cats.html
I'd pre emtivily call the RSPCA myself and ask their advice.
If they say its fine for the cat to just live in the kitchen you can tell your friend.
If they say its unsuitable you can either decide with your wife to let the cat in or the RSPCA will take the cat from you for re homing.
If they say its fine for the cat to just live in the kitchen you can tell your friend.
If they say its unsuitable you can either decide with your wife to let the cat in or the RSPCA will take the cat from you for re homing.
Soldato
Ofc the RSPCA will say is fine, there is nothing legally wrong with it. Some cats are absolutely fine in one room at night if it is what they are use to. This one probably wont like it but I cant imagine the RSPCA will say anything against it.
Leave the cat in the kitchen over night and see if it spends much time mewing to get out.
Leave the cat in the kitchen over night and see if it spends much time mewing to get out.
you need to get to the bottom of why is it urinating on the mat. could be stress and/or underlying health issue (assuming it has been neutered and isn't simply marking its territory).
realistically you cannot expect a good quality of life by keeping it in a single room.
if your wife really CBA then look at re-homing the poor thing.
realistically you cannot expect a good quality of life by keeping it in a single room.
if your wife really CBA then look at re-homing the poor thing.
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Soldato
I'd get rid - charitable cat shelter or something.
No point having a pet that makes your life worse.
No point having a pet that makes your life worse.
take her to cat protection or similar rather than the RSPCA please.
here you go - http://www.norwich.cats.org.uk/norwich/contact-us
This ^^.
I misread the OP when I responded.
Don't get another one either further down the line.
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The cat will probably be fine, as if you don't want it any more it will **** off and find someone who does...
What your friend was getting at is the attitude of abandoning your committment to the responsibility for a life. If one can so readily just drop that, one would wonder at how one's offspring will turn out.
Maybe she was never a cat person to begin with, but it does show cause for concern.
Why would you want to keep someone like this as a friend, sounds like he just wants to cause you problems all the time over something that is nothing to do with him.
First up, man up and tell him to **** off, then deal with the cat and wife issue in a way you deem appropriate.
Break it's legs or move to a bungalow.