Moving House with a Cat

Any tips please?

My boss has had an internal promotion, and as such is moving house.
He'll be moving no more than a few hundred yards, but move house he
must.

He would like to encourage his cat to think of new house as "home",
rather than risk it going back to its old abode and recommencing the
turf war it has with a neighbouring cat - particularly as neighbouring
cat's hoomins are likely to be moving into boss' vacated house.

IIRC he should keep kitty confined for a few days, then gradually allow
it run of the house/garden, with less supervision as time goes on. But
if anyone has any other tips, I'm sure he'd be grateful to hear them.

NB: Vehicular traffic is minimal and speed-limited. There are no major
roads to cross between the two houses.
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Cathi

On Thu, 9 Oct 2003 19:34:59 +0100, Cathi
wrote:

Any tips please?

My boss has had an internal promotion, and as such is moving house.
He'll be moving no more than a few hundred yards, but move house he
must.

He would like to encourage his cat to think of new house as "home",
rather than risk it going back to its old abode and recommencing the
turf war it has with a neighbouring cat - particularly as neighbouring
cat's hoomins are likely to be moving into boss' vacated house.

IIRC he should keep kitty confined for a few days, then gradually allow
it run of the house/garden, with less supervision as time goes on. But
if anyone has any other tips, I'm sure he'd be grateful to hear them.

NB: Vehicular traffic is minimal and speed-limited. There are no major
roads to cross between the two houses.

Sounds like a very tough situation, as cats don't really have much
respect for hoomin property lines. As I understand cats, females
generally have a range of about a block, and males three or four times
that, and the amount of territory decreases when neutered. So a move
of a few hundred yards isn't likely to change what your cat thinks of
as its territory, just the location of its food bowl and bed.

When my sister moved to a house a little under a mile from her old
house, the cat refused to move, and kept going to his established
territory. My sister finally ended up giving the cat to her old
neighbors, retaining visiting rights.

Cathi wrote:

Any tips please?


Hi Cathy,

Try this factsheet from the Feline Advisory Bureau, it should help with
what he needs to know.

http://www.fabcats.org/is13.html

HTH

Deb.
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"Cathi" wrote
Any tips please?

My boss has had an internal promotion, and as such is moving house.
He'll be moving no more than a few hundred yards, but move house he
must.

He would like to encourage his cat to think of new house as "home",
rather than risk it going back to its old abode and recommencing the
turf war it has with a neighbouring cat - particularly as neighbouring
cat's hoomins are likely to be moving into boss' vacated house.

IIRC he should keep kitty confined for a few days, then gradually allow
it run of the house/garden, with less supervision as time goes on. But
if anyone has any other tips, I'm sure he'd be grateful to hear them.

I think I've read that the cat should be held indoors for a couple of weeks,
at least, if not longer, but I don't know. It's a tough situation. Purrs
that everything goes well.

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Marina, Frank and Nikki
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"Cathi" wrote in message
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Any tips please?

My boss has had an internal promotion, and as such is moving house.
He'll be moving no more than a few hundred yards, but move house he
must.

He would like to encourage his cat to think of new house as "home",
rather than risk it going back to its old abode and recommencing the
turf war it has with a neighbouring cat - particularly as neighbouring
cat's hoomins are likely to be moving into boss' vacated house.

IIRC he should keep kitty confined for a few days, then gradually allow
it run of the house/garden, with less supervision as time goes on. But
if anyone has any other tips, I'm sure he'd be grateful to hear them.

NB: Vehicular traffic is minimal and speed-limited. There are no major
roads to cross between the two houses.


My gran always swore by the "butter her paws" - and it seemed
to work as all our cats settled in the new house when we moved.


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Jette
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