Thread: Sorry, more questions / advice please

The litter tray habbits seem to vary with our lot. Pretty much all of them did not use the tray for the first day. Could be nerves or tension. Once settled in each of them has different "requirements" The girls seem to pee very frequently and the 4 year old retiree sometimes only goes to poop every other day (BIG jobs when he does this!)
Food wise they all eat very differently and quantity wise. The one girl and the retiree eat very little where as the 2 kittens will eat all day if we let them, the other boy eats "normal".
Vocally it is the same, the one boy meow, chirps, howls all day! The others are sometimes silent for days on end then very vocal.
We use a standard cat carrier for the kittens and dog carriers for the big ones.
The cat flap going out to the cat run is a "dog" flap, but no lock fitted.
All of our love water and I have had them jump in the bath and shower with me! They also like to play / sleep in the bath when it is empty. The one likes to have the tap running to play with.
Attitude! They all have that!! Some of them love to be picked up and fussed, 2 of them dont. The one girl will lay on my lap for hours but will not go near my wife.

Hope these few answers help.

Hello
Your cat sounds perfectly normal to me!!

We have 2 boys and a girl, both boys call a lot, trilling and chirping, our girl is preety much silent.

Toilet habits - as someone else said, it takes them a few days to settle in and the lack of poop is a sign of that. If he is underweight, his body is absorbing most so he should go again very soon. Wees - one of my other cats just wees once a day, so as long as he is drinking and you dont notice he is getting a pot bloated belly its fine.

Food - all ours are fed as they want, we only feed biscuit, Royal Canin Fit 32, and its left down all the time. Cats are grazers. I would only feed what you want him to have but just give him a lot of it, dont introduce foods you dont want him to have in the long run.

Carriers - you can get really big ones.

Catflap - we dont let ours out. Coonies are not good with roads, and dont have much road sense. I know some get let out, you have to judge your coonie yourself. Also they are not like normal cats and run from people, in fact mine tend to come and sit and look at new people, and they run to answer the door with the dog!

Attitude or catitude, yep they have it. My boys demand cuddles in the morning and will get on my lap. My girl will snuggle up next to me but try and cuddle her and she tells you to get lost - saying that she is as affectionate as can be but doesnt like being held much.

Just keep doing what you are doing, a daily brush/comb, lots of attention. Talk to him constantly and think of a name for him soon - even if its what you call him - sweetpea, sugar, darling etc. Get him to know his name so you can call him - definately before you think of letting him out.

Good luck and dont worry about any more questions coonies are different! I have never had cats that wash me like a dog before but they do lol.

Hugs
Ruth

Can't add much to above & I also don't allow any of my MC's into the outside world,only into a safeproof garden & pen, but if that is what you want to do I would suggest getting him microchipped & getting the flap that you program to allow only him through,collars are dangerous things on their own on cats,have seen lots of nasty accidents including deaths through them at work.
Hope "cat" soon gets a name,we took on a stray moggy years ago & I didn't want to raise daughters hopes that we would keep it if the owner wasn't found so I told daughter we were looking after it for a couple of weeks while the people were away & of course then got the obvious question "Whats its name",sugar,hadn't thought that one out so off of top of head said Pusskins,she went to her little grave with that name,wouldn't answer to anything else when we decided that she wasn't going to be claimed,seemed to suit her though...!

Thank you all so much. Cat now has name Buddy!

Taking on board that most of your cats don't go out we are securing a section of the garden for Buddy to keep him safe at least until I get to know him properly.

Food wise, I will continue to give him tin morning and evening and leave dry food down all the time. Will continue with fresh chicken etc until weight up and then use as treats in smaller amounts. He used litterbox overnight, and boy did he use it, so think you were all right in him just settling in. I did move the litterbox to give Buddy more privacy.

Have decided to buy the dog carrier as before his previous owner became ill Buddy was 9kg. He is 40 inches nose to end of tail. Took me nearly an hour to measure him as he thought tape measure was a toy. He is starting to play now, bit like an overgrown kitten. Off out to buy him some more toys today.

Glad things are smoothing out for you...and I love the name Buddy.
We all seem to try so hard to do what is best and I found just relaxing a bit helped.
Paris poops every other day, and pees one to two times a day, her back up bowl is dry food, and she has one small can of wet food a day. And just a few cat treats a day from my husband.
You're doing good.
One little tid bit, when the door bell rings, Paris runs to the door and then hisses at who ever it is....I guess, instead of barking. It's funny.