r/CatsUK

My 9 month year old cats have semi supervised outdoor time and have just gor a catflap. Unfortuntely they are not fully able to use it yet. We both work full days and cant leave catflap propped open as it is in our front door. As its due to reach 30 degrrees again next week and they go a teeny bit crazy outside in the heat (one has 0 recall) is it safer for us to keep them inside next week as i cannot reliably get him home after 2 hours and Im prerry sure he will completely ignore me at dusk? Or is it better for my cat sitter to pop over and let them out in the afternoon, even if they cant get back in the house until we come home at 5? Not sure what's best....!

We just moved to a new house and if I let her go at night she travels far away.

So I want her to do it in a cat litter box.

When I put her on Danish Moler she runs away instantly.

What do I do? 😥🐱

And what kind of litter box and what litter is best?
Also how big the litter box should be?

Is this good?

https://amzn.eu/d/03ikHKfD

Thanks!

We have two cats that are the same age, but my inquiry is for my grey cat, Luna. History-wise they have been indoor cats their whole life. We lived in apartment buildings for the first 4yrs of their life in Toronto before we made big leaps to move to the UK late last year. We've also had them as kittens.

In our days living in apartments, Luna was exposed to hallway walks (supervised), our other cat could not be bothered by this. Luna can also be easily harness trained. She picks things up quite quickly and is very treat motivated. We always had floor to ceiling cat trees and multiple wall perches to food puzzles and cat scratchers for enrichment. Luna however never found this to be enough. She always wanted to be in hallways and building staircases and no matter how long you are out with her it was just never long enough. I'm talking between 5mins- 25mins. She will exhibit a behaviour like constant meowing to get out which only gets increasingly louder and more obsessive. I have roommates at one point where they also have to walk her just so she stops meowing. That was our experience in apartments.

Now that we moved into a house in a country village neighborhood estate, with a decent fenced garden, We thought it would be good for both our cats to have an added enrichment. So far we are only allowing supervised yard access when the weather allows.We started with 2-5mins out and slowly increased the time based on individual cats' confidence. Our other cat, was shy at first but eventually learned to pace her excitement and would come back into our conservatory when she feels shes had enough garden time. And shes happy to be let out when we let her. We think hallways were not her fave because people come out and she's more reserved in nature. Luna on the other hand, started exhibiting new behaviour on top of the constant meowing, she would start pacing and turning around a foot stool then watch the garden door and repeat the behaviour, which worried us after reading on obsessive behaviors in cats, and we decided to take a break from letting her out. After maybe a week from the break the obsession would start to die down. But there have been times where she bolts out, gets a taste of being outside and then the obsessive cycle begins again.

This does worry me about her fulfillment. I always feel I am short of giving her the life she deserves but we are not sure how to go about this we started exploring letting her out 3 months ago. I do also want to mention that after the first time we experienced her obsessive behaviour, it took 2.5weeks for her to settle from meowing every time we are in the living room (the door to the garden is glass and its in this room) and we attempted different ways to redirect her obsession from different online sources. One said if she kept meowing to calmly let her out of the room and only letting her have access when she stops meowing for at least 30 secs (that was really difficult) personally it is also distressing for me to constantly hear her meowing and scratching at doors. We also did 2 more attempts of exploring how we should reintroduce garden time to her all of which ended the same way. Which has been discouraging.

Although in our new place we have yet to add wall perches, I don't feel confident that this will help distract her as back in apartments this wasn't enough.

TLDR: Are we distressing her more by introducing outside or should we be looking for other approaches to letting her out?

We are open to getting gps tracker collars just the initial phase seems to be challenging.

I have a bonded pair that I adopted in January. They’ve been to the vets a few times for a n introductory appointment, and again for a vaccine. The more nervous cat understandably hates it but the more confident one actually doesn’t seem phased at all. She’s so nosy and curious that she can’t wait for her part to be done so she can jump down off the table and snoop around the vets room while her sister has her turn.

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I have a 3.5 year old British Shorthair and love her so much. Sometimes it feels like she's a cat, dog and human all mixed into one. Only regret I have is not buying one of her siblings when I got her as a kitten!

Anyway I really want to get another cat, mainly so that she has someone to keep her company as I do shift work and so does my wife. Other reason being the obvious I just love cats, but also because I'm her favourite person and she treats me very differently to my wife, and would love for her to be another cat's favourite person.

I would get a kitten, most likely another BrSh, but the only thing that worries me is what if my current cat doesn't like it, or doesn't accept it? Is this a common issue? Or do they just need time?

I know nobody can predict how my cat would behave, but is it more likely it would all be ok or the opposite? Anyone have experience getting a kitten to join their cat?

okay so i have a cat which i love to death shes 1 year old and persian. I have to leave for another country for 2 months and can’t bring her with me BC MY DAD REFUSED AT THE VERY LAST SECOND. I genuinely wanna bring her with me but i can’t. Should i board my cat for 2 months? i know its a long long time and im looking for the BEST PLACES with plenty of space and enrichment with attentive staff in another city bc my city doesn’t have anything. Will it be worth it since i looked at everyone’s experience and MAJORITYYY of them are negative.

Im gen so scared bc i don’t want my cat to be depressed,, be in stress. The thing is i have my grandma who’ll be staying in my house so should i leave my cat with her? I trust her and she has a little experience with cats and my cat knows her but i was thinking what if she accidentally leaves the door open or anything. What if my cat gets sick and she doesn’t know. Im so scared and confused idk what to do like people who boarded their cats have no good experience and 2 months is a long long time. Also my grandma doesn’t know how to use phone so she won’t be able to send me pics or videos like yk keep me updated or anything . Only if i could bring her with me but thanks to my dad for being a nuisance. Also what if some random insect bites my cat and she’ll be definitely getting bored. Shes very sensitive,,shy,,a big big introvert also gets stressed easily.

On Monday me and my family are going away and we’re bringing our cats with us. They’re both 6 years old and have been with us since November. Both are girls and are lovely in their own way. It’s not our first time having cats but it’s our first time having rescue cats.

When we brought them home they were in crates and were yowling the whole time. We have bought a seat for them so we don’t have to put them in crates. However we’re worried about stressing them but leaving them isn’t an option because of the heat. Anyone have any tips on how to keep them calm? The last thing we want to do is stress them when they’ve just fully settled in.

I adopted two 9 week old brown tabby kittens from the same litter a week ago. One is very outgoing, playful and not fearful from day one. The other is scared, skittish and only hides. The woman I got them from told me this upfront as well, so it’s definitely not just due to new environment although could be part of the reason. I’m considering rehoming the skittish one or maybe contacting the girl to take him back? I just feel bad, I don’t want him to live a life under my couch or bed because he doesn’t come out. He also doesn’t like to play with his brother much, he will run and hide from him too. Is it cruel if he doesn’t fit our household and I rehome him? Should I contact the lady I got him from first? TYIA.