Juvenile delinquent cat

Silvertabby

Royal Canin plus others do reduced calorie cat food specifically for indoor/less active cats. You'll have to go to pet shop for it, though, as I've never seen it in a supermarket.

FreeBear

Tiddlywinks wrote: »

Cats need exercise and roam over quite wide areas if left to their own devices. Being shut in a relatively small and never changing environment must be like being in prison.

My cat has shown little desire to go outside even when the door is left wide open. She much prefers to lead the life of leisure curled up on a bed.

Yes, most cats need, and even desire time outside to exercise (and poo in the flower borders), but a few are quite content with an indoor life.

suzeesu2000

My girl was a going out kitty until we moved. She hates this garden and is too rubbish to get ove the wall - if she got out of the garden she couldnot get back in so she decided not to bother.

She goes out almost daily to "check the perrimeter" chews a bit of grass then waddles back in for a sweety!

Oh, she has also developed a serious love for the (HER) new duvet...cant get the little monkey off it lol.

So long as she is happy so are we, mind you she IS treated like a perfect princess and quite rightly so!

savemoney

My daughter has two house cats and live near a busy road and she is at work Mon-Fri 7.30am until 6.30pm. One is a English short hair was a stray and is very nervous when she got him and a rag doll she got from a kitten they cant let them out. Both are fed Royal canin dry food, expensive but she doesn't need to feed them much so its probably cheaper than I feed my cat with wet food but he is a outdoor cat.

The English short hair is a little bit fat as he is greedy and steals the rag dolls food I have such trouble feeding them when she goes away for a few days as there hide and dont have time to be there all day

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

Ceiling height cat tree? Catwalk out of shelves around the house?

NewShadow

Jojo_the_Tightfisted wrote: »

Ceiling height cat tree? Catwalk out of shelves around the house?

One of the best things I bought for my cat (other than the human furniture, of course) was a 4 foot tall cat tree that sits right next to the light switch in the lounge.

I think he noticed that if he's sat at switch hight (on the top of the tree, which is about the size of a side plate; so more perched at switch hight) my hand automatically drifts to give him a fuss when flicking on or off the lights.

Now, whenever I go through the room (Something I have to do to move between the front door, kitchen and bedrooms) I automatically reach out to tickle my Dexter.

He's even been known to sit on his pole and call me from another room so I can treat him in the manner he has become accustomed :rotfl:

Other popular things include many cat beds stashed at various levels and in different rooms (including under sideboards and on top of wardrobes) for him to carry out intelligence gathering on the goings on in the house.

And my laundry basket, which is where all the toys get gathered together and hidden - the joy of having a cat that sometimes think's it's a dog. He get's most disgusted when I want to do a load and scatter his toys through the house. Doesn't speak to me for at least a couple of hours.

gettingready

Get him/her a friend to play/run around with

gabriel1980

We have tried him on a lead like our next door neighbour, but he get's terrified when he leaves the house and just wants to go back in. We bought him as a housecat so he's never known anything else. Plus we live on the top floor of some flats so it's just not practical to let him out. Also he has shown no desire to go out even if the door is left open.

arbrighton

If he's still young, there's time to get him accustomed to going out on the lead. Dogs have to be trained how to walk too- ours used to just plant her feet and not move when very young, but now, loves getting out and about and is a pain in the butt on the days OH has a lie in before he walks her