Thread: First night concerns

We kept kitty in our room the first night. We may live to regret it.
He had a very comfortable first night. He has chosen to sleep a few nights on his cat tree since but I think he prefers our room!!!!

Karena we left the litter tray in the bathroom. However our bathroom was just across the landing from our bedroom.
Of course we had no dogs to deal with

We were confident he was litter trained and really spent the evening re- enforcing where his tray was . I didn't want to leave it in sitting/kitchen/dining area. If you are not confident about him finding the litter tray then I would leave it not far from where he is sleeping.

More experienced coonie owners may be better able to advise :-)

hi ya
my doggie sleep upstairs with us also and because i have a young baby i wont allow the cats to sleep upstairs so i keep the living room door closed so she can free roam downstairs with litter tray and beds etc, i think using your idea would be just creating more work for yourself if the kitten were to get used to that long term in my own opinion that is, the dogs initially will be excited and react differently to what you expect no matter how well trained they are (ours is ex police dog) and boy it was some work gettin him to listen when we brought meekka in lol..took around 1-2 days for them to be comfortable with eachother so for easy life long term and first few days my suggestion would be to let kitter have a room where you will keep the litter tray and close the door and if its bathroom keep toilet seat down lol, if dogs cannot gain acces to their water bring that out of the room to where they can get it, one peice of advice which stuck with me was you can control a dog but never a cat then i say after day 3 they will all be able to sleep in the same room depending that all goes well i reckon, dont be suprised if your dogs mouthe the cat my dog often carrys meeka around in his mouth very gentely its funny to watch cos he is massive lol, x

but another thing is i only have 1 dog and dogs are pack animals so could take longer for them both to adjust x

do you know what? just re-reading your post i think your going to be a fantastic mummy to the wee coonie, can tell its gonna be one spoilt kitty xx

We shut off teh spare bedroom for about a week, after a week we got fed up with the smell and cleaned room and let her out, cats made their own way...
(kitty poo, yuk! on another note, don't start off with a small tray, they will miss it)

Thank you all. Shelly think I'm just over worrying really which is the norm. I have had a word with his breeder today and she has told me to pick him up early the day I get him and see how the day pans out. I will put the crate up and only use it as a last resort. My dogs are big too but they are real sweethearts. I'm more worried about them accidentally hurting him than intentionally. They can be a little clumsy sometimes. When I got Elsa as a small puppy Maggie was lovely - she really took on the role of mum and followed her around everywhere even giving her a wash now and again. I hope she seems Simba the same way.

i wil be the same this time next week i bet lol, when do you get your wee one?

A week on Sunday - Valentine's day! Seems like an age away yet.

oh yes thats right- please excuse me i get a little confuzzled with so many people at times...
and what name(s) are you going through now?

Choosing a name was one of the hardest things because I have three children and they all wanted different names. In the end though we have gone with Simba. What about you?