kitties......

mrskitty

mrskitty

Nori Brick
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Due to our recent sightings of a mouse in our home (:eek:) we recently got a moggy as the mice were getting the food from the traps we put down but not getting trapped!?
Anyway he is an indoor cat and has been a bit spoilt by his previous owner.As far as we know he is about 9 months old.He was fine the first couple of days but this morning since we got up his been manically running around the lounge and kitchen as if he is hunting/trying to catch something (which isnt there)....my question is...is this normal for an indoor cat???
Is it because he is not releasing his energy by going outside?
How can i calm him down a bit when he does go mad?
Im asking because its a bit scary for my Jack and his been scratched by the cat (although it didnt leave a mark).
 
Cats have those 'mad do s' - nothing to get concerned about - it's just a bit alarming at first because of the wild look they get in their eyes.

My cat is geriatric now and hasn't 'played out' for 2 years, but still has mad do s occasionally. When he did 'play out' he had them in the house - they're like 'hunting practice'
 
Ours does this just after being fed racing about upstairs and down she is 12 years old but acts like a kitten sometimes:D
 
Thank goodness for that-was getting worried cos we have become really attached to him now, thanks guys x
 
Our cats both do this. They spend most of their lives asleep but when they do come to life they often charge manically up and down the house, and up and down the staircases, leaping over each other or sometimes running into each other which results in a bit of hissing and spitting. Then it all calms down again and they have another kip.
 
MargaretR said:
Cats have those 'mad do s' - nothing to get concerned about - it's just a bit alarming at first because of the wild look they get in their eyes.
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I remember one of the cats I had when a youngster used to arch its back and hop sideways if you disturbed it whilst having a mad do.
It was so funny they are strange creatures arent they !!
 
Padiham Lass said:
I don't really understand the concept of an "indoor cat".

Do you intend to keep him indoors for the rest of his life?
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Some cats never have outdoor hunting and 'what they don't know they don't miss'. They tend to need indoor toys more, for satisfaction of hunting instincts.

I made the decision to keep my cat indoors soon after I moved here, because I can't have a catflap(tenant), and he caught several parasites from other cats in the area. Also this area is a place where dog walking is rife.

Because he was accustomed to freedom to come and go at any hour, he was quite furious about it first - now he doesn't seem to bother - likes his home comforts at age 15
 
Padiham Lass said:
I don't really understand the concept of an "indoor cat".

Do you intend to keep him indoors for the rest of his life?
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thats how every cat should be kept ,well done to those that do this it shows condsideration for other people and for every cat kept indoors its one less cat out there potentialy causing blindness in children , people keep birds in cages,fish in a tank so why not keep a cat in the house

if you think an animal should not be caged then should anyone have any sort of pet at all and leave animals in their natural enviroment ?
 
He was in a top floor flat at his home before and they had him as an indoor cat from day one so now he is actually too frightened to go outside.Someone told me if i just keep leaving the door open he will eventually decide to go outside through curiousity but will probably never go further than the back fence.Which is fine with me, i just think its weird keeping a cat in ALL the time.
Even if he does goes outside i shall keep his litter tray here so he can still do all his business here and not in anyones garden.

But so far so good, his settling in well and seems to have taken to me a bit more than he has Corker n Jack which i reckon is because i was the one that went n picked him up.
 
Cats can be very funny about who they 'own' in the household. Bracken definitely is Em's cat. She's quite timid and very wary of strangers and more or less tolerates the rest of us. She does tend to boss me about when I'm the only human at home though.

Furby on the other hand is definitely Busman's friend, even though he wasn't even at home when we went to collect Furbs as a kitten! If Furby isn't around and Em isn't here then Bracken will be friends with Busman. :D
 
Sassy is Tylers cat, she doesnt come near me and i feed her! they are both as mad as each other as well and have mad running around do's together lol
 
In the car on the way back he was very scared but i soothed him enough to the point where he laid down on my lap and was just looking out the car window...i thought maybe because of that he has taken to me......or maybe im just alot nicer than the lads in this house haha
 
Use to have a tom cat when I lived in Hassy so some mice, got the cat never saw the mice again, and the cat either, that is until it was hungry or when it was cold, then it used to knock on the kitcen window:D
 
misskitty said:
He was in a top floor flat at his home before and they had him as an indoor cat from day one so now he is actually too frightened to go outside.Someone told me if i just keep leaving the door open he will eventually decide to go outside through curiousity but will probably never go further than the back fence.Which is fine with me, i just think its weird keeping a cat in ALL the time.
Even if he does goes outside i shall keep his litter tray here so he can still do all his business here and not in anyones garden.

But so far so good, his settling in well and seems to have taken to me a bit more than he has Corker n Jack which i reckon is because i was the one that went n picked him up.
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a word of caution because the advice you got isnt exactly true

a friend of mine had a house cat that had never left the house apart from visits to the vets etc , one day it got out and wasnt seen for about 3 or 4 weeks when it turned up in the back yard in a pretty bad condition

when put back in the home it started to have mad do's and even clawed its way up the wall digging into the wallpaper , it was pretty awfull seeing an animal this way because it was going crazy inside but went worse if you tried taking it outside

he took it to the vets and was told that it had basicly gone insane caused by it been outside and been flung into what to it was a very un natural enviroment and had to be put down

not saying this coz i hate cats or to wind you up but its well known that housecats taht have lived in the home for years cant cope when flung into the outside world and they never come back the same
 
Our Bracken has always basically been a housecat but she took herself off one day when we were due to go away for the weekend to a wedding down south. We had neighbours looking for her and spent ages searching but couldn't find her so in the end we had to just leave her to it and hope she'd be OK and go to the family wedding. When we got back a neighbour came and told us she thought our cat was in her shed. She was. She had managed to find shelter and water and seemed none the worse apart from being a bit slimmer. I thought it would have changed her personality even though it had only been a couple of days but she soon settled back to her old routine and bossed us around in the house again. I suppose all cats are different just as people are.
 
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