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  • Cat owners – house move advice required.
  • RustySpanner
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    Just moved house with our 14 year old mog.

    She seems happy now things have calmed down a bit, but we’re unsure as to how long to keep her inside for.
    Opinions seem to vary massively.
    She’s always been an outdoor cat, but her eyesight isn’t too good these days.

    Read so many different opinions, but would appreciate some real world advice.

    Thanks in advance.

    footflaps
    Full Member

    2-3 weeks. Let her first out when she’s hungry ie not just been fed, more likely to stay close awaiting food…..

    mintimperial
    Full Member

    Couple of weeks at least.

    Pigface
    Free Member

    Butter her paws 🙂

    ski
    Free Member

    2 weeks, then let her out, just before your feed her, will give her a incentive to come back 😉

    qwerty
    Free Member

    💡 pop a sim card up her pooper, that way if she goes missing you can just activate a lost my phone app to find her 💡

    stumpy01
    Full Member

    We were quite worried when we moved house as our cat was quite nervous & we thought the move might really mess her up.
    Once she’d been in the new house for a couple of days, she was like a different cat – loads more confident & a lot less nervous. We were going to keep her in for 2 weeks, but after 1 week she was climbing the walls. We tentatively let her out & she was fine. Wandered around for a few minutes, wandered back in the house, back out, back in etc… for the rest of the day. So long as the door was kept open, so she could get inside if need be, she was fine…

    footflaps
    Full Member

    If you’re really worried you can get GPS / Phone trackers for pets, a few were reviewed in the Sunday Times In Gear section yesterday…..

    geoffj
    Full Member

    Open the door she’ll be fine as long as you are there.
    Maybe keep her in whilst you go out for the first 2 weeks, but that’s all.

    coolhandluke
    Free Member

    yep, butter on the paws always worked with our cats after just a couple of days (after things have calmed down like).

    dewydd
    Free Member

    Moved house with two cats a few years back – both cats had been at the old address for about seven years. The intention was to keep them in for the first week but they were climbing the walls by day two. We ended up letting them out on the second night and had absolutely no problems with either of them.

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