dinahsmum
27-08-2006, 05:22 PM
Yes, I did get that the right way round - I want to talk about cats who seem happy to have more than one home. (I'm sure there was a children's book about a cat who had six homes, ate six suppers, got a tummy-ache and was taken to the vet six times, had six lots of pills etc ... but perhaps I dreamt that? :roll: )
Jules and Nae have posted today about neighbours who are a pain in tempting cats away but I have a theory that many cats (being life's great chancers) look to make sure they are comfortable and deliberatley cultivate more than one home where they know they can be safe and will get food.
I can speak from experience with one of our past cats - Roger - who had an 'uncle' (a single, elderly, man) near the two houses we lived in whilst we had him. To the first he was 'Abert' and he was sad when we moved and took his Albert away, the second just lived over the back fence and if Roger wasn't in our garden then that is where he could be found.
We had one/two other cats at the same time, who were happy to be one-home cats.
Anyone else think some cats just like to extend their options?
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Jules and Nae have posted today about neighbours who are a pain in tempting cats away but I have a theory that many cats (being life's great chancers) look to make sure they are comfortable and deliberatley cultivate more than one home where they know they can be safe and will get food.
I can speak from experience with one of our past cats - Roger - who had an 'uncle' (a single, elderly, man) near the two houses we lived in whilst we had him. To the first he was 'Abert' and he was sad when we moved and took his Albert away, the second just lived over the back fence and if Roger wasn't in our garden then that is where he could be found.
We had one/two other cats at the same time, who were happy to be one-home cats.
Anyone else think some cats just like to extend their options?
http://smileys.smileycentral.com/cat/16/16_1_25.gif