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| Help! We moved here in feb and brought our cat with us. The journey over was remarkably stress-free,Oscar travelled in the cabin with me and seemed to have no lasting after effects. For the first few days in our house, horizontally terraced with a huge stone area all around it and wide concrete flower beds (plenty big enough for him to do his 'business' in without falling over the side!) he was fine,went out explored and generally acted 'normal'.
Since then he very rarely goes out, but sits at the open doors and watches what's going on. When it gets dark he does venture out a bit more without much persuading, but the slightest noise and he's in like a bat out of hell!
On top of that he's gone from the cat who NEVER used a litter tray if he could possibly help it....to one that ALWAYS uses the litter tray even if the doors are wide open and he can see the flowerbeds. I've tried sprinkling some of his litter on the earth, putting his tray outside to encourage him and even gone to the stage of digging little holes to remind him of how he used to do it (I know......how sad am I?)
I can't believe that my out-going, adventurous boy has turned into this introverted character that won't say boo to a goose.
I did see one huge cat just after we moved in....who would have put Garfield to shame...but apart from that one sighting he hasn't appeared again, so I don't think it's the fear of other cats that has done this to him. Had he not been perfectly normal for the first few days I would have put it down to the trauma of the move, but I don't think that's the problem either...we've also brought all our furniture with us,he's got all his stuff,his bedding/chair/toys etc. so he should feel at home.
I know this is a pretty trivial thing compared to what some people are going through after moving over here.......but it's upsetting to see the change in him that's been caused by us moving.
Any help/advice will be really appreciated. Thanks. | |
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What kind of plants are they? Some plants are cat deterrents - so if those are that would explain not wanting to do his business there...