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I feel like an overbearing parent sometimes but my reasons for not letting mine out are purely thinking about their well being. So many stories of idiots kicking/shooting/maiming animals or them getting run over etc etc. They are quite safe and ridiculously well looked after in my flat, so, thats where they stay :)
 
PiKe said:
Do many here have their cats as housecats?
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I live in a city centre flat, so yes.

Tia will sometimes make an escape bid for the stairwell, but then promptly decides it's too scary and runs back inside :) We're thinking of moving to the country, if so we'll introduce her to the big outdoors.
 
ubern00b said:
I feel like an overbearing parent sometimes but my reasons for not letting mine out are purely thinking about their well being. So many stories of idiots kicking/shooting/maiming animals or them getting run over etc etc. They are quite safe and ridiculously well looked after in my flat, so, thats where they stay :)
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Can so relate to this and its for the same reason I don't want our Mully going out when we get him. We have a small shopping centre a short distance from our house and it has a busy road running along side it if he got on to there he could easily be hit.
 
PiKe said:
Do many here have their cats as housecats?
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Dex is mostly a house cat, mainly because he'll only stay outside if one of the back doors are open. As soon as I close them he comes crying to be let back in. He never really goes much further than a garden or so away anyway and most of the time sits on the fence at the back watching the birds in the trees. If I'm home early in the evening or I'm about at the weekend I let him go out.
 
Winston has definitely had any feralness bred out of his lineage.

He can't even jump on to the table/work surfaces without using a chair as a booster.

Fail cat is fail.
 
Don't know if it will ease anyones minds, but female cats typically won't venture more than 50m and males around 100m from home.

Both of ours are female and they certainly stick to that 50m zone. Mostly spend it in the back gardens and back alley by our garage, but they will venture over the road out the front into the front gardens. Never any further. I still worry about the road, but it's not a main road and they would have to go about 3-400 meters before reaching one, which is very unlikely.
 
PiKe said:
Looks very young to be rehomed already, how old is he?
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He is 9 weeks old, so a bit less than the latest advice of 12 weeks. His mother was no longer tolerant of him around so he wasn't having any milk from her and was on wet kitten food exclusively and he is fully litter trained. I know 12 weeks is ideal, but I have had many cats from 9 weeks in the past and all have been absolutely fine. We have another cat in the house too, so he isn't alone. He certainly seems happy enough, he is totally relaxed and is eating, sleeping and pooping like he should :)

G.
 
pokerking said:
Any body had experiances with electronic cat flaps that only open with a chipped cat? We need to get one asap as we have a rouge cat coming in our home spraying and its driving me mad :mad: :mad:
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We have had two. The first was a Staywell Smartflap and it worked well but stopped working after a year or so. So did the one a friend bought on our recommendation:mad:
the flap stopped reading the chip in in one of our cats, which was down to the chip moving away from the top of the shoulders where it was implanted. Seems to be a fairly common occurrence. The Smartflap has a fairly weak sensor so stopped reading the chip once it moved.


We have now got a PetPorte (still Staywell) but it seems more robust and reads the chip the Smartflap wouldn't. Bloody expensive though, but more programmable.
 
Thanks for the kind words about losing my old cat Meiko, but I now have his little sister which the breeder extremely kindly gave us for free.

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We named her Skyla, she's a Tortie point Siamese, just over 5 months old. :)
 
SouthEastBlue said:
Thanks for the kind words about losing my old cat Meiko, but I now have his little sister which the breeder extremely kindly gave us for free.

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We named her Skyla, she's a Tortie point Siamese, just over 5 months old. :)
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She's lovely :)

My Sealpoint was almost 16 before we had to say goodbye to her, if well loved and looked after Siamese live for years :)

Never met such a loving cat either, they give it back in spades and the Tabby Tortie Cinamon point Siamese my parents have is the same, they trule are lovely cats. Just wish my Mrs was'nt allergic otherwise we'd have one each !
 
Behemoth said:
She's lovely :)

My Sealpoint was almost 16 before we had to say goodbye to her, if well loved and looked after Siamese live for years :)

Never met such a loving cat either, they give it back in spades and the Tabby Tortie Cinamon point Siamese my parents have is the same, they trule are lovely cats. Just wish my Mrs was'nt allergic otherwise we'd have one each !
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She's the third Siamese I have had in the family now, grew up with one, and my last cat Meiko also Siamese (was sadly put to sleep because of a suspected brain tumour).

They're the most vocal, lovely dog like cats you can get - I love them! :D
 
Just got back from a weeks holiday. Dave and Lola were in the cattery. Lola had another bout of cystitis just before I went, but didn't seem to suffer too badly in the cattery as you can see

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They kept me supplied with photos via their Facebook page

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Went to pick them up this morning, started calling Lola as I was walking down to where they were. She did THE MOST excited miaow I've ever heard her do when she recognised my voice, and then jumped on me when I got in the pen. My heart properly melted. She's then followed me round most of the day. Dave in particular seems happy to be home

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:D :D :D
 
Can anyone recommend a cat treat ball? The kind that treats fall out of as they play with it.
 
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