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[Deleted member 66701]

Cheers for the thoughts guys. Feeling better about it now - feelings of guilt have subsided and feel better in the knowledge that it was the right thing to do.

Concentrating on giving her brother a good fuss every time he's around - although he keeps sitting at the window above the cat flap waiting for her and when I put cat food down he sat watching the stairs waiting for her to come down and join him

Terrible no, tasteless and a sly dig at someone who has lost a dear fiend...yes.

It's the internet - there's always a **** or two about.

 

[Red_knight]

My Oscar-catte was a blood donor for some very sick kittens last night

So far three (out of five ) of them have survived.

 

[TrixiBuG]

I need a bit of advise

We are moving house (yay!) but the house we are moving into used to be the home of 3 kittehs and a dog, and up until last night they were still living there.

We get the keys on the 2nd Feb, and we have a bit of time to move before the tenancy on the current house has lapsed.

My problem is that I don't know when to move my 2 kittehs (who fight each other constantly) over to this new house, with strange cat and dog smells (to them at least) which they are going to have to endure for 2 weeks while we keep them in :O

I was thinking about taking Snoopy to the house first and let her get used to the house. I would pop in in the Morning and at Night (we will be moving stuff in too) to see her and feed her, but ultimately she will be on her own locked in.

She is the most territorial of the 2 of them and we suspect that she has been in flights with one of the ex feline residents in the past too (this house is 8 doors down from our old one), but I am worried that she will get settled, then I will move Peanut in and all hell will let loose and she will get very upset again

Tried using Feliway on them but it doesn't have any effect on her at all (or Pea either)

So, would it be better to move her first to get used to the house by herself, or move them both in at the same time??

Help!!!

 

[neil_g]

i think definitely move them together, otherwise i think one may claim the territory?

i also think definitely get some more feliway. it's not really designed to stop cats from fighting if thats what you used it for previously but it does help with the stresses of moving.

otherwise try and air the house before hand? fabreeze?

 

[TrixiBuG]

i think definitely move them together, otherwise i think one may claim the territory?

i also think definitely get some more feliway. it's not really designed to stop cats from fighting if thats what you used it for previously but it does help with the stresses of moving.

otherwise try and air the house before hand? fabreeze?

Yeah, I was worried that she would claim the house as her own then Peanut would come in and it would upset her all over again (considering we had Snoopy first so Peanut has already 'invaded' her space so to speak) so moving them together would probably be for the best.

Considering we have a few weeks between getting the keys and having to be out of our current house, then I have more than enough time to hover excessively and air the place out - well that is unless our estate agents decide to let us go early, which will just be our luck

My issue with Feliway is the price! One plug in only covers one room. This new house is bigger, so I would have to get 8/9 plug in's at £14 a go And as they didnt work to stop them fighting then i was reluctant to pay out. But if its not designed to stop them from scrapping then I will look into it again

Are there any alternatives that people have tried? Buttering paws etc?

 

[Quartz]

We are moving house (yay!) but the house we are moving into used to be the home of 3 kittehs and a dog, and up until last night they were still living there.

Before you move in is the ideal time to have the new house redecorated. Fresh paint and new carpets. That should kill all smells dead. And stand you in good stead for the years to come.

 

[drunkenmaster]

Yup full on house clean will help significantly. If carpets and not being replaced then either pay someone or hire a proper carpet steam cleaner. Honestly I'd do that when moving into a newly bought house regardless. Get keys, get the place steam cleaned day one, leave for a few days to dry out/air out as much of the smell as possible while cleaning walls and everything else and a lot of the smell should be gone. Also move furniture over probably before the cats, sofa's and things tend to smell of your cats so if you move some things over that smell of them several days before you move the cats over then some of their smell should be present already.

The other option is be a alpha male, pee on your cats, pee all over the new house, and hell, the old one, assert dominance... then to the cats both houses will smell of their pack leader

 

[Kronos]

Absolutely chucking it down with snow so went down to get the cat in except she has no wish to come in as she having the time of her life chasing snow flakes, she's mad.

 

[knip]

Absolutely chucking it down with snow so went down to get the cat in except she has no wish to come in as she having the time of her life chasing snow flakes, she's mad.

Ha! Mine were the same the one time we've had it since they were around. Dave even got frostbite and had to have special ointment to clear it up, cos he was walking about on it so long.

 

[subbytna]

SQEEUSPLOSION!!!

Without sounding all effeminate, those pics are precious. She's part of their family regardless of breed/animal. Lovely to see the squee-o-meter go off the scale

 

[Kronos]

Is My Cat Plotting To Kill Me? (Quiz)

I don't think she is plotting to kill me but my partner is another matter.

http://www.youthink.com/quiz.cfm?ac...lter=popular&time_span=latest&sub_action=take

 

[Mat]

"Your cat loves you

There is a 7% chance you cat is plotting to kill you. You and your cat are veru close and would never hurt one another."

I was surprised not to see the results stating that my cat was plotting to kill me. I imagined that any combination of any answers would still result in the same ending because, you know... cats.

 

[neil_g]

Your cat is a KIller

There is a 93% chance wour cat is plotting to kill you.

 

[Will Gill]

Here is a random shot of mine by an odd fake owl my ex bought me, can'r bring myself to throw it away!

 

[arc@css]

I love it when you see pics / videos of cats (or dogs) with their tongues poking out.

 

[Kronos]

What is the one really weird thing your cat does? Mine does many but the one that I really cannot fathom is. I had a smallish box on the floor which had a bit of the super sized bubble wrap, (this was a piece with 4 large bubbles) , which sh pulled out of the box and proceeded to burst the bubbles which produced a bit of polythene 36cm x 28 cm which she will now sit on quite regularly.

I had another bit of this bubble wrap which I put on the same box and she has totally ignored it.

As I say weird.

 

[Mat]

I imagine she has made an association with that particular piece of plastic, somewhere along the lines of:

Popping these bubbles is fun.
I'm done popping these bubbles so I'll sit down.
I have no idea what this plastic is for but this is a comfortable place to sit.
There something in that box but I am comfortable.

Luna will miaow at her water dish before she drinks so I can only assume there was a time, as a kitten perhaps, when she wanted a drink, miaowed at someone and was given some water. Why she finds the need to paw at the floor to 'uncover' the bowl first, is beyond me.

 

[LiamC]

 

[Skunkworks]

Here is a random shot of mine by an odd fake owl my ex bought me, can'r bring myself to throw it away!

http://i.imgur.com/Wo2igoX.jpg

Did they go to sea in a beautiful pea green boat?

 

[GAM8LE]

Here is my sushi! He is about 6 months old now.

And I also just bought another little kitten which is a fluffy version of him(black as well) but she wont keep still for a photo at the moment haha Her name is Peanut