CATS!!!!

[slim_boy_fat]

Who on here has indoor only cats ?

I've never had any pet(s), but a neighbour has an outdoors only dog if that counts? [before any starts, it was a working sheepdog so is well used to not being in the house. It's very well looked after, just not indoors.]

 

[stuvy]

Yep we have an indoor cat but the close we’re in has a viscous monster ginger Tom and an equally bigger tabby that hates the tom aptly named lion

 

[mpats]

Who on here has indoor only cats ?

Yup, our two are indoor cats.

 

[DennisCA]

Our previous cat was an indoor cat for the first 7-8 years, when we moved to our house she wanted to go out, but only in summer when temperatures rose, didn't like the outdoors when it was cold.

These ones are already used to go outside and last night we decided to let them out, they kept to the back terrace mostly and went back inside later.

 

[Mart63]

Who on here has indoor only cats ?

Our little girl was a rescue and is a carrier of cat flu and only has one eye and no teeth. If we let her outside she would get hit by a car or attacked by dogs or foxes as she's vulnerable on her blind side. We live in a high rise block of flats, so letting her outside wouldn't be possible anyway.

 

[Seano]

I absolutely love cats, I have two British Shorthair which my ex has sadly. I live in a ground floor flat and my L/l really doesn't want me to have pets, the main reservation I have is that's it is virtually impossible to stop them clawing at carpets, and after being flooded out last year all my carpets are new, does anyone have any proven way of stopping them ? Over the years I've tried all the usual methods, water spray, clapping loudly, shouting at them, and all they do is give that Oh yeah what! look

 

[slim_boy_fat]

Google "booties for cats" - well, you did ask. . Be interesting to see a video of what the cat does after you fitted them.

 

[DennisCA]

I absolutely love cats, I have two British Shorthair which my ex has sadly. I live in a ground floor flat and my L/l really doesn't want me to have pets, the main reservation I have is that's it is virtually impossible to stop them clawing at carpets, and after being flooded out last year all my carpets are new, does anyone have any proven way of stopping them ? Over the years I've tried all the usual methods, water spray, clapping loudly, shouting at them, and all they do is give that Oh yeah what! look

It's too late now, but the solution would have been hardwood flooring, or even laminate, or good ole linoleum.

 

[stuvy]

Scratching post with cat nip spray. He never claws the carpets but the soda killed the dining chairs.

I clip his claws to help stop it and he’s used to it now so never puts up a fuss

I also make sure I play with him before work and in the evening so he’s not bored and tempted to be destructive

 

[Seano]

Google "booties for cats" - well, you did ask. . Be interesting to see a video of what the cat does after you fitted them.

Good luck with trying to get them to stay on

 

[addjunkie]

We had 6, but today had to take my favorate one on the final journey, and home to a pre dug hole next to Rosie the dog. Now down to 5. An if there are no more wee in the slipper incidents in the porch we will know which one it was!

 

[Pete.]

My daughter managed to snap a pic of her pork-chop-stealing cat staring down a juvenile fox this week. The fox absolutely refused to look at the cat until the cat got bored and turned away

 

[mpats]

My daughter managed to snap a pic of her pork-chop-stealing cat staring down a juvenile fox this week. The fox absolutely refused to look at the cat until the cat got bored and turned away

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Those are cracking pictures.

 

[brightspark]

if my whippet saw both of them he would have a fit a fox comes through our garden every night . on a morning let the dog out and he sniffs all round and marks his territory

 

[DennisCA]

Went for a drive last night, visited my parents as they will have to take care of them a few days next week due to a trip. They don't like to drive, I thought. Turns out they hate the cage. They're perfectly fine if they manage to get out of the cage and will then sleep in your lap the whole way if allowed. It's a bit odd to drive with kittens in your lap.

Found this guy sleeping like this, one paw hanging off the fly net

 

[mrsbruce]

I had a cat like that. I found that whenever I took him to the vet, the best thing to do was once in the car, open the cat carrier.

He’d sit at the back window, and shout at the cars behind us for a few minutes, then lie down behind the drivers seat for the duration of the trip.

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

Cats.
Soze doesn't matter, they are all the same.

 

[DennisCA]

Getting to be a morning ritual that they're attacking my legs as I make coffee.

Ferocious beasts. Good for waking up the kids though, just open the bedroom door and they'll be wrestling each other in their beds soon enough. Pretty hard to stay sleeping then.

 

[mrsbruce]

They are looking very content now.

 

[rtbcomp]

One of mine used to jump on the bed and walk up and down on top of me for the full length of my body. One day I pretended to stay asleep to see what happened. The little sod hooked a claw inside my nose. That worked.