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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. -- Cathi |
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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. |
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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. -- Y! diatomdeb :: 0°07'W 51°18'N :: www.scientific-art.com "He looked a fierce and quarrelsome cat, but claw he never would; He only bit the ones he loved, because they tasted good." S. Greenfield |
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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. -- Marina, Frank and Nikki marina (dot) kurten (at) pp (dot) inet (dot) fi |
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"Cathi" wrote in message ... 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. -- Jette "Work for Peace and remain Fiercely Loving" - Jim Byrnes http://www.jette.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/ |
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