Unexpected Challenges of House Sitting

[ZenGum]

Just deal with Outside Cat as you would deal with any mentally ill patient who has been missing their meds.

Step 1. Takedown gloves.

[wolf]

Originally Posted by ZenGum

Just deal with Outside Cat as you would deal with any mentally ill patient who has been missing their meds.

Step 1. Takedown gloves.

Largedog and mediumsizeddog just watched fireworks with me in the back yard ... from my lap. I was able to peek around largedog's chest to see the display.

[casimendocina]

Originally Posted by wolf

Largedog and mediumsizeddog just watched fireworks with me in the back yard ... from my lap. I was able to peek around largedog's chest to see the display.

If you crushed up the Prozac and put it in the food, would Outside Cat be fooled? There's no way he could eat around it and it's unlikely if he's hungry that he'll refuse the food. (Tried and tested).

[wolf]

Originally Posted by casimendocina

If you crushed up the Prozac and put it in the food, would Outside Cat be fooled? There's no way he could eat around it and it's unlikely if he's hungry that he'll refuse the food. (Tried and tested).

Multi cat household, the other cat is friendly and calm and doesn't need the Prozac. To specifically target outsidecat, I would have to put the Prozac inside of the little birdies' hearts.

[Beest]

A couple of weeks ago while Hector was slogging to finish some project one evening we had a 'cat whisperer' type program on in the background.
People with problem cats call this guy and he comes round and advises them on changes in lifestyle. Part of the show was that this guy was alsoa musician, weighed ~250 lbs, bald head, goatee, tattoos etc. so lots of shock value when people open the door to 'the cat guy'.

Anyway, letting several episodes run back to back his solution in each case was basically the same, cat's need a 3D enviromnet, lot's opportunites to climb on shelves or on top of TV's etc. mostly so they can be higher up and look down on everything else (for those of us who have read the Unalderated cat, cats need to play cat chess and win).
In each house he would advise them on clearing shleves and adding climbing toys so that a cat could navigate around a room without touching the floor.