Does you cat come in without playing silly ruggers?

I_luv_cats

My cat (and previous ones) seem to enjoy playing catch me if you can by scooting off when you open the door or attempt to pick-up.

Only the rain or cold (and sometimes hunger) gets them straight in :eek:

Once (eventually) in they are their usual sweet self! (as if nothing has occurred)


Does yours play silly ruggers?

Tiglath

Ours have a catflap at the back, but the one who goes out the front knocks on the door by banging the letterbox repeatedly when he wants to come in. It's not funny at 4am.

scaredy_cat

what you do is have a bag of treats in your hand and make as if to open it - the noise soon gets them in!

I_luv_cats

scaredy_cat wrote: »

what you do is have a bag of treats in your hand and make as if to open it - the noise soon gets them in!

Only works if really hungry!

So funny today as really wet, my cat doesn't really want to go out or play catch me if you can when steps out briefly

ERICS_MUM

My Eric has always been very good at coming home when called, I could hear him scrambling over the fences then running full-pelt across the garden.

Now he's nearly 16 and I think he's getting deaf - I can get very close to him and he doesn't know I'm there until I touch him and he seems startled. Also his meow has got a lot louder.

I've had to lock his catflap to stop the neighbourhood bully coming in, stealing his dinner and sleeping on his favourite stair !

Notsosharp

Nine times out of ten I can get them in with no bother.

I think it's more down to routine more than anything else, I send them out hungry and then by the time I come to call them in at around ten o'clock at night they're *usually ready to come it and get dinner.

Although I will admit it has been harder to get them in with the weather being OK.

It was funny on Thursday night, I was walking back from the pub with my brother when I spotted my cats in the ginnel where they usually hang around. One of them tried his usual trick of rolling around on the roof just a smidgen out of my reach. Little does he know my brother is significantly taller than me at six foot three and my brother just picked the cat up and handed him to me.

The look of complete and utter shock combined with indignation on my cat's face was really quite something to behold!

bacardi66

Even at 19 my cat still enjoys leading me a merry dance when I try to lock in him at night! He has always had a catflap and the freedom to come and go as he wants but in the last year I have tried to keep him in at night.

He can still move very fast and will just run off down the garden and disappear if he thinks Im trying to get him in. During the hot weather he just refused point blank to come in and would stay under the bushes in the garden all night.

I just have to wait for him to come to eat in the evening and then lock the catflap behind him - after which he will sit by the catflap and glare at it and me for at least half an hour :rotfl:

StaffieTerrier

My cat doesn't never strays too far from home. She's too scared of other cats, dogs, people, cars, tractors, other animals the same size or larger than her, strange noises, wind, rain, etc. She needs to be close to run into the house the moment one of these appears. She's also highly motivated by her belly. One yell of 'Spooky, do you want some food?' and she runs into the house at high speed.

Battleaxe44

We have a bell in a plastic ball, I shake it and no matter where the cats are they come running, as they know it means Dreamies time, it;s good to get them in before we fo to bed, at least I know they are safe then, but as the cat works with the discs on their collars, they can leave and enter at will after that, it just head count each night before we go to bed.

One of the girls thinks she is Greta Gabo when she comes in, unless of course she hears the rustle of the dreamies packet.

Fidget plays silly ruggers if nothing is on offer for when she comes in. Sparky just strolls in as if he wons the world, he knows he is beautiful. Old Smiler just sits there, wont come in, but still gets his treats (he is the cat who prefers to stay outside, he adopted us after being abandoned.)

I_luv_cats

I guess my cats have come and go (no real routine) as they please. (coming in for a nibble when they fancy)

Gives them less incentive to come/stay in on command. Plus gives them the upper hand in Catch me if you can!

Some lovely tales of obedient (or not so) ^ cats above

Sagz_2

Mine have a cat flap but I also trained them to come in when called as I like to know where they all are at bed time.

Training was easy with food, they mostly come in when called but if the don't appear a tupperware box with treats in rattled does the trick.