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| 1154.1 | Time...and Treats! | SKIVT::P_MARGOLIS | Paula Beth | Tue Mar 01 1988 16:02 | 16 |
| Time my dear...Time. When I first took my new kitty home...the
one I got from this notesfile...she'd hide under the dining
room chairs all day...
I know she'd come out when I was gone, because she made on my
carpeting upstairs a few times.
Well, it's a week later, and things are "back to normal"; no
more slithering...no more accidents.
When you take a cat away from its old environment, it needs
time to adjust. Some cats just take more time than others. Have
patience, and plenty of bribes around (Pounce Treats).
P.S The dining room chairs still make a great hiding place!
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| 1154.2 | Curiousity Ceasens with Familiarity | SKIVT::P_MARGOLIS | Paula Beth | Tue Mar 01 1988 16:10 | 3 |
| Actually, my first cat, like Brutus, portrayed this "opening behavior".
Just curiousity. This too ceased in time.
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| 1154.3 | Familiarity, ditto! | SALEM::ARNOLD | | Tue Mar 01 1988 16:22 | 15 |
| Between our move from CA to NH, we lived for 7 months with my folks
in MA. We started the cats out in small areas (upstairs, for example)
before allowing them run of the house. When we moved to NH, my
folks kept them for 2 days (undoubtably on tuna!) until our place
was somewhat settled. The furniture still must have retained some
of their scents, etc. because this transition was fairly smooth.
Familiarity is the key here....anything you had at your parents'
house that has moved with you? Even clothing (bathrobes always
seem to work) that they've rubbed on - suckled on, etc. seem to
bring back that secure feeling. I would also recommend that your
husband interact with them - they may not recognize his scents.
Best Wishes,
Denise
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| 1154.4 | The brat cat... | AIMHI::LLEBLANC | | Wed Mar 02 1988 10:00 | 15 |
| My cat Alex is doing the same thing....and we've lived in our house
for about a year now. At about 4:00 in the morning (consistantly) he
is jumping on my dresser and knocking everything off, walking all
over me, licking my face, trying to knock the picture off the wall,
knocking the phone off the hook, anything that will get me up.
I have a hunch that he is just bored with being cooped up in the
house because it is so cold out that he wants attention. This behavior
just started about a month ago and it's very annoying when I don't
have to be up until 6:00 AM. I pick him up and put him outside
(which he hates) and if it's to cold, I will put him in the basement.
I don't want to give him his breakfast because I don't want to
get him in the habit of waking me up for his meal.
Any suggestions???
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| 1154.5 | | CIRCUS::KOLLING | Karen, Sweetie, Holly; in Calif. | Wed Mar 02 1988 13:38 | 12 |
| Re: .4
Can you play with him a lot in the evenings, and tucker him out?
My first cat Pussycat used to try to get me up by knocking things
off the dresser; after awhile it occurred to my giant brain that
I was reinforcing this behavior by getting up to rescue things,
so for several days I pretended I didn't care and let stuff fall
while I stayed in bed; he gave up.
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| 1154.6 | getting better | IRT::HABER | | Wed Mar 02 1988 15:39 | 9 |
| Thanks all for the responses. Both cats are familiar with my husband
for a while now. My husband does whatever he can to get the cats
to go to him, he even bought a can of treats that he alone can give
to the cats. One thing that helped keep the noise is that I opend
the closet door so Brutus couldn't. But, he howled as loud as
ever.
Thanks again
Karen
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| 1154.7 | time and patience ... | CHEFS::GOUGH | | Thu Mar 03 1988 08:23 | 18 |
| The first time Oliver moved house, he hid in the spare bed for a
fortnight. I literally had to drag him out to feed him. Then he
went outside and hid under a shed down the road. This lasted for
three weeks, with me collecting him every evening, and carrying him home
for his supper. He then decided to act normally (or as normally
as he ever acts!). My other two cats settled down in about a couple
of hours.
The second time Oliver moved house, he hid under the wardrobe for
half an hour - as Ollie is a very LARGE cat, and the wardrobe is
very close to the ground, this needed to be seen to be believed!
After half an hour something seemed to click in his brain - probably
that supper doesn't arrive in a two inch gap under a wardrobe -
he came out, and has been OK ever since.
So there is hope!
Helen.
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