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I live in a flat & adopted a cat who lives indoors. He is an elderly cat with diabetes so I need to keep an eye on what he is eating & can't risk him going outdoors to be fed by a well meaning stranger (especially if they give him dreamies or kibble as they send his blood sugars soaring!). There are kittens in the same situation, either with injuries or health problems (diabetes, feline aids etc) that would be just fine indoors. You just need to make sure they have things to climb, play with, scratch & treat dispensing balls are great to keep them occupied.
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^ both of my cats are indoor cats as we live next to a busy road and would rather they dont get squashed.
They are fine, we occasionally take them out in the garden on a lead but other than that they are more than happy with an indoor life.
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Our cat did that at that age. He was just playing, annoying and painful though it is. He stopped when we stopped reacting to him. We found that us shooing/shouting/spraying at him was part of the game. Lock him out of the bedroom and ignore the cries.
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bet there is loads of this going on .........After Brian thought he gave Stewie cancer he was ballroom dancing with him.
(Brian is teaching Stewie to ballroom dance)
Brian: If you're going to make me do this, at least let me lead.
Stewie: Okay, fine. (they move close together) I love you.
Brian: What?!
Stewie: Olive juice.
Brian: "Olive juice"?
Stewie: "Olive juice" you, too!
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Is it possible to trim the cats claws so they aren't so sharp to draw blood? If the cat goes outside I can appreciate that you wouldn't want to do this, but one of ours was a serial foot bapper when he was younger (and still does it occasionally, but not with the persistence of his kitten days). I found him easier to ignore when he wasn't making me bleed.
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Tesla seems to be totally at home at ours now. She's used to sitting on laps, being nice to strangers, and eating properly.
So I thought we could buy a new doormat for the French doors, seeing as we have two doormats which she shows no interest in pissing on. She hadn't weed in the house for months.
Yesterday I bought a £3 IKEA doormat, then Tesla got straight onto it. I picked her up and plopped her next to it, and then covered it in catnip, hoping this would make her think it was some kind of amazing drugs blanket.
Guess what I came home to today?
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The cat we had when I was a kid used to scratch and bite - my feet were always a target when they poked out from under the duvet.
He was a vicious little bastard actually. Son of a farm cat, he never really allowed himself to be truly domesticated. I once saw him bite and swallow the head off a rabbit, and eat a squirrel's arm. Pretty much every day he'd leave just the bile sack of some rodent on the doormat. Both ears had great big nicks out of them from fighting, and he had various other exciting scars all over. When he was old and it was time to die, he dragged his failing body far into the garden, under a wheelbarrow and said 'fuck it'.
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Morning... does anyone need a relatively new cat tower thing?
Like the one Opie is sat in a couple of pages back.
40x30cm platforms, little cat cave thing and a hammock /string/toy combination.Our monster has grown out of his one after 4 months.
Collection from Herne Hill.
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^^ Maximum chill.
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We recently got this monstrosity, I have no idea where to put it long term in our quite small house!
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that pic of Opie make me smile
Climbingdrat - once he has had the chop it may calm him down, the other tactic is to play with the kitten loads with one toy distraction and to tire him out, and keep the spray bottle handy !