Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
New to owning a cat
We've taken the plunge and adopted a cat from the RSPCA. She is a beautiful little black cat, about 1 year old, with the biggest green eyes ever. She's been with us since lunchtime and has already played with the children, had some food and water, explored the whole house and generally looked very cute.
She doesn't seem keen on going into the kitchen which is where her litter tray is. Any advice on how I should encourage her in and get her to use it? I think maybe it's a bit too open and light for her in there - the whole of the back wall is glass and she seems to be intimidated by it.
Her current favourite place is under my son's bed where she's found and laid claim to the old cot matress that is stored under there. She's also discovered that the corners of my house and under the bookcase are very, very dusty.
I've never had a pet before so any other general cat owning advice will be gratefully received.
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Permalink Reply by Salsa on
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The cat flap is a "smart flap" I got it on amazon £80. It is really good!!
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Permalink Reply by tigha on
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Gosh lots of advice and lots of cat lovers
I have never manged to keep my cats in at night as they just spend all night pulling the cat flap off the wall as they are so desparate to get out
Its a cat thing and Im lucky enough after lots of sleepless nights keeping an eye on them to know they stay in my garden, but cats are nocturnal and love hunting dusk and dawn, that is there natural behaviour and my cats love it, thankfully they are now bored of bringing me in frogs and caterpillares and tend to just spend hours fantazing about all the birds etc they would like to catch, but all they ever get are a few feathers to play with
as far as cat flaps go, you could try a cheap one for the mo, and see how that fares, i found that one of the local ctas moved in so got a magnetic cat flap for bout £20 and had no probs since
cats look afetr themselves and are very self suffient-they make us feel important and needed but really they are very fickle and go whereever the food is, so if your away, they will basically sleep, and if there is no food they will go looking for it. They dont need washing, as they spend hours themselves preeening themselves,
Some will let you brush them every few days(mine alwsys have) but many also dont like it so dont stress
Thye are the easiest of animals to look after
Just make sure you always leave out water for them as they often arent drinking enough
I have never looked back from adopting the broher/sister kittens few years ago from RSPCa
And yes its really hard to keep them in at the begin but you dont want him to run off and get lost as has happened to other members on this site
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Permalink Reply by Anette on
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She really sounds like my kitten, amazing. Here she is, discovered she liked drinking from the tap, and she's really not bothered by getting wet at all! She gets really bored when I'm not in, and is prone to a bit of mischief when she is.. it's much better now that she's going out. I did last 3 weeks before I let her out, and am glad I did. She now comes when I call her, which is brilliant. Ahhh!
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Permalink Reply by JulieB on
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Cute and clever, I love her little white socks.
Mog had me up at 2am, 4am and 6am today, and she still persuaded me to give her a treat of tuna for lunch today. I'm definitely keeping her in for 4 weeks, poor thing really wanted to go out and chase the squirrel who was digging up our bulbs this morning.
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