Dear George,My daily routine goes like this - eat dry food breakfast out of bowl, human leaves for work, nap. More daytime sleep. Human arrives back, eat supper out of bowl. Then, when I am ready to play, my human just sits in front of the television doing nothing.
So I climb on her knee. Sit there napping and purring for a bit. Climb off, have late night snack out of bowl. Then its bed time and we both nap. My only activity, apart from sleep, eat and litter tray, is the occasional bit of human attention on the days where she stays home.
This is dull, dull, dull. What can I do about this lifestyle?
Yours
April.
Dear April,
Yours is a common problem among indoor only cats. Your human needs to give you a climbing frame. She could use shelves or the drawers of an unwanted chest of drawers, like this photo shows. Leaping from one to another will give you some exercise.Stop using that bowl. Get her to throw the dry food round the house so you have to hunt for it. Or make a food dispenser out of a lavatory roll, a plastic bottle, small cardboard boxes, or an old tennis ball - examples here here. Hunting for food will be more fun.
And why hasn't she bought a fishing rod toy, so she can play with you from a distance while watching TV. Indoor cats need games. Get that idle human working for you.
Yours
George.
PS. Please comment with some other ideas.
I share my house with an indoor only cat called Dru. She loves fishing rod toys, so we try to play for half an hour every evening. She also loves a good brush each day, so we make time for that. I got Dru a window bird feeder for her birthday. It suctions to the outside of the window and I have positioned it somewhere where birds will get lots of warning if a passing outdoor cat approaches. I think this must be like TV for cats. Dru seems to appreciate it. The birds are just starting to eat the food, so I hope they will get braver as time goes on. She is an indoor cat for health reasons, but I hope to get the garden set up with catproof fencing at some point- maybe next spring.
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DeleteI like the idea of food hunting! I got the brush - I even brush myself :-)
ReplyDeleteI'm an indoor cat too (after being rescued - after 3 years spent on the streets)
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