The Cat Thread

Morning sun

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What a beauty

Any tips to stop our ragdoll from weeing on our beds? she loves them specifically. We adopted her 8 months ago and she took a while to literally get her shit together. We have had to keep our bedroom doors closed all the time. But basically whenever we accidentally leave the door open she'll pop in and go right in the middle of the bed, it's upsetting and infuriating.

We had some builders in to put some new radiators in today, the spare bedroom door has been open and low and behold we found a large wet patch in the middle of the spare bed. She clearly went in there to go on the bed. Whats going on?

Ive had what my family referred to as moggies for years. Basically a post office cat. Mixed heritage and mild murder tendencies. I got one at my last home and he stayed with me for years before my daughter adopted him as i moved and it seemed cruel to uproot him when he'd drummed the fear of god into every dog, cat and wild beast with a few miles.

Fast forward to no and i'm finally ready to readopt another cat and have discovered maine coon cats. They are fantastic huge beasties and i'm rapidly falling for them. But can they be allowed to roam as i have with my previous cats? I cant help but worry should i go down this route some unscrupulous scrote will steal it while its prowling around hunting cows and such like.

I mean, Maine Coons are predominantly indoor cats no? So they shouldn't be roaming too much.

We had this one or two times in the beginning with the grey furry idiot.
Still pisses randomly on bath mat, down jacket or whatever but bed seems safe.
The pissing into the bathtub is the least annoying.

We think she does it when the toilet is smelly bc not changed for too long. And general unhappiness/stressed.
Problem is that when something smells of piss they will probably piss there again.
Do you have one of those cat piss sprays?

So not really any tips, but solidarity;-).

Our previous cat always pissed / pooed on the doormat.

Keeping the little tray very clean did reduce the frequency of her using the doormat as an alternative but it was hard to eliminate even with daily litter change. In the end we just got rid of the doormat.

Obviously this isn't an option with your bed so I feel for you. All I can suggest is keeping the litter tray very clean and maybe putting another litter tray somewhere nearer the bedrooms, and trying to keep doors closed.

The bonkers £10 spray, yeah. She has to walk past her litter tray in the bathroom to get to the bedrooms

I just don’t know hence the query. I’m hoping some folk here have the breed and can give insight. I’ve never had an indoor cat. They’ve all been intent on the immediate murder of everything with a few miles of the house. Which included the guy over the roads Alsatian which would cross the car park to avoid my garden and the inevitable ambush.

Indoor cats will trade murdering small animals outside for murdering your sanity and soft furnishings..

If you do catch her in the act spray her with a water pistol or similar, maybe?
Maybe try different litter, cat might not like it?
Sorry if this offends someone, I am not a cat psychologist, and I don't shoot my cats. But I probably would if they pissed in my bed.

Doesn't @ejay2.0 have like 5 huge furry cats?

Yes ejay has 5 Maine coon.
Well 4 and a rag doll.
We let ours roam for years, and had no issues. One neighbor did call the rspca cos she thought she had seen a lynx in the garden. We never feared for them being stolen, but they were for the most part tabbies only one was one of the dramatic looking black smokes.
Having said that I’m not in “that London” but Oxfordshire.
One downside was the size of the the things they caught , big pigeons and squirrels.

My ragdoll will pee in the bathroom floor if the tray is even a little bit dirty.
And we had an another one before this one and she did the same.

5 was just a guess, honest, haven't been to your house checking out cats!

You are welcome to come and visit the zoo anytime.
Just promise you’ll take one away with you , I’m still not sure how I ended up with this many.
You can’t have the black and white one though , he’s my boy.

I'm deeply tempted by the big cats but the area i live in, folk steal dogs out of the yard if you aren't careful. Id be devastated to lose a cat of any type but standard moggies tend to run from strangers and aren't that identifiable from a distance as anything other than a murderball of fluff.
Its quite a semi rural location so theres plenty of sheep and cows for it to hunt too.

Apart from it beeing quite far, don't think it would end well.
There's two cats here that probably weigh as much as one of yours....

I think you’ll be fine, dogs are different.
Just get a brown or silver tabby.
Where are you looking?

One of my boys did weigh 14 kilos.

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There's an incredible fluff cat that appears in our garden like a ghost. Pale apricot extremely fluffy like a cloud, never any tangles, just softness. Haven't tried to get close.

So good looking. And definitely not small.
When ours do stupid stuff I sometimes think how a bigger cat would be able to crate way more chaos.

I'm still in the research stage at the moment. Need to determine if my home life would be suitable for them. I travel for work every few weeks for a week, but my adult son shares a home with me and is also a huge cat fan so the cat will still have a suitable minion and servant. I'm just concerned if the cat will have enough space in a 3 bed semi if its an indoor cat.
any suggestions of reputable breeders?

Our cats have spent stretches of their lives living in 2 bed apartments without any bother. They enjoy getting outside now, but there are still times when we need to keep them in and they quickly adapt.