Adopting a cat

M3G4UK said:
I've got all the essentials (bedding, toys, treats, food, litter tray and litter etc)
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Don't do it. I have 2 cats that are 14 nearly 15 years old. It's all fun and games till it gets to winter and they refuse to leave the house.

Wake up to a pile of cat **** on the bottom of my curtains, in the bath, under the stairs. One even **** in a box filled with nails, screws that sort of thing. They don't use litter boxes. The only way to stop this is throw them outside every couple hours and for a good 3 hours before i go to bed.

Then if i can't find them before i go to bed they scream at the front door at 2am since they are to old to climb through the window. THEN when i open the front door they run off and so the saga continues.....

Moral of the story. **** cats.
 
Voisier said:
Don't do it. I have 2 cats that are 14 nearly 15 years old. It's all fun and games till it gets to winter and they refuse to leave the house.

Wake up to a pile of cat **** on the bottom of my curtains, in the bath, under the stairs. One even **** in a box filled with nails, screws that sort of thing. They don't use litter boxes. The only way to stop this is throw them outside every couple hours and for a good 3 hours before i go to bed.

Then if i can't find them before i go to bed they scream at the front door at 2am since they are to old to climb through the window. THEN when i open the front door they run off and so the saga continues.....

Moral of the story. **** cats.
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We had one of our cats till he was 18/19 years old. He never stopped going outside and refused to use the litter box. He never once had any issues getting outside and holding it in.

He ended up having a stroke under the hedge in our garden.
 
Antony101 said:
We had one of our cats till he was 18/19 years old. He never stopped going outside and refused to use the litter box. He never once had any issues getting outside and holding it in.

He ended up having a stroke under the hedge in our garden.
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I can have the back door open all day and they will not go out there in the winter. But somehow in summer they magically gain the power to climb through the kitchen window..... when winter rolls back round they lose this power -_-
 
Haha yeah scratch post is sorted - bought him a cat multi gym thing from pets at home. He seems a little friendlier today. Retreated back to the stairs but now beginning to pick up my scent and would eat some dreamies if I put them in front of him, or if they were in my hand he'd nudge them out. :)
 
M3G4UK said:
Cat is here now but is terrified. He's buried himself in a corner and dug his claws into the carpet. :( I've put some food nearby but any movement near him and he starts to tremble. Can't actually get him into the living room where the litter tray is :( I feel terrible at the moment, poor mog is terrified!
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It will calm down, just don't risk letting him out.

One time we moved by mother let the cats out within a few hours :eek:

We had 4 cats at the time, one just wondered round the new place as if nothing had happened. Two buried themselves underneath the bath tub and the 4th one moved into the neighbours shed.

They did all eventually start behaving normally (well maybe not the one who liked green beans and sweet corn, but he was a bit special).
 
we normally keep em in the house for about a week ish before letting them out and about. had a few rescue cats over the years indeed our current [a fat blob called angus] is a stray, sadly I fear someone may have given him the odd boot in his previous life because he's utterly terrified of me for no good reason.
 
Update on little Sam..

He's found a new hiding place - under the bathroom cabinet (it's raised on stilts) so I've tucked my old hoodie under there to lay on and put his food and litter tray outside. On Sunday night when everyone was asleep he ran around the kitchen, found the cat treats, destroyed the packaging and ate most of the contents, found his litter try and did his business.

Me and my other half have been sitting in the bathroom and talking to him; he came out and had a huge fuss (he loves attention) and was purring away. He even poked his head out of the room wanting to take a look around the house. He's slowly becoming more receptive :)
 
good news :)

like i say one of ours was like that, i was REALLY worried about him and one day he was just like "GIVE ME CUDDLES HUMAN!" :D
 
Great news!! Glad he is coming out of his shell, it will take time but he is getting there :) Also I would just leave his food and litter tray in the same place as he may get confused and not find the tray if he is in quick need of it. I never moved my litter tray when the foster cats hid, I did move the food but only till I knew they had eaten something. I then put it where I normally keep it and when putting the food out I have a special sound I make so no matter where they are in the house they no its grub time lol.

Keep up the talking, playing and fussing and he will soon be running round causing chaos lol.
 
bitslice said:
So, still no upside down cardboard box to hide in?
Cats like to hide and he's obviously struggling to find a suitable place in your house. Make a cat fort for him.

Gah!
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Tbh you don't need to make him a fort all you need to do is leave a box somewhere with the flaps closed and he will find it and hide in it and feel comftable.
 
I really hope the Maine Cooon kittens i get in a Feb don't do that when their fully grown as they can get up to 8kg!!! I'd be dead before I knew what was happening lol!!
 
You get them home, put butter on it's paws, and by time it has licked it off it knows it's new home. :)
 
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