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i am to nervous to let my kitten/ cat out!!

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piratecat · 02/02/2009 09:48

i just let her have a 5 min sniff round the garden, but just couldn't leave her.

she's very lively, and i have taken her out on a harness a few times.

my other cat is very doclie and i guess letting go of her was easier.

pfb or what!!!

oh plus i have had two precious cats die onthe road in the past. NOt at this address tho. I know cats have to take thier chances.

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PoloPlayingMummy · 02/02/2009 10:47

It is so hard to let them out the 1st few times isn't it. Just stay out there with her for a few days until you feel reassured that she will come back (and she will, you know she will!)

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piratecat · 02/02/2009 10:52

it's cold out there! ok, so i'll stay out ther. if she goes up and over the fence, i'll be tempted to grab her legs. maybe that's what i should do for a while.

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piratecat · 02/02/2009 14:41

i did it. sun was out, i went out with her, and seh loved it. cautious to start with , then her and my older cat were running round like loonies!!!

I kept the back door open, and she kept coming back to check the house was still there

then finally, when she came in i fed her, and told her how clever she had been,

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PaulaMummyKnowsBest · 03/02/2009 16:42

it is scary when they first start going out

nobodysfool · 03/02/2009 16:45

We always use to let our kittens out when they were hungry then when we wanted them back open the can then bingo! they came back for their food.
Might be worth a try for the first gew times.

TheInvisibleManDidIt · 03/02/2009 16:54

put butter on her paws

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piratecat · 03/02/2009 19:23

hi, it went well today too!! yes i lether out today with the older one, before lunchtime AND i shut the back door (faints).

called her back about 10 mins later, and she flew in!!!

have blocked up the back gate with the dead xmas tree. can't face removing that just yet!!

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LadyGlencoraPalliser · 04/02/2009 17:46

How old is she piratecat? My kittens are 14 weeks and desperate to see the big wide world, they make a run for it every time the door opens but I don't feel they are safe yet.

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piratecat · 05/02/2009 07:36

she is about 5 months now, but very flighty, and as she was a rescue cat who was brought in as a stray, i was told to keep her in for 3 weeks.

I have kept her in for 5, to be on the same side, and to let her settle.

Yours are prob a bit too young yet? I think 4-5 months is about normal ime? Although it must depend on your location, and how safe it is, if they should do a quick mad run.

scares me tho!!!

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JollyPirate · 05/02/2009 07:42

piratecat - I understand completely. I absolutely adore my cat and all the ones I have had in the past.

In October 2007 I lost a 7 month old cat on the road near our house - I didn't realise he'd got out of an open window and I was devastated. My other cat was promptly confined to the house (much to her utter disgust). My feeling was "I know the dangers and you don't".

When I moved home - one of the major considerations on my list was - is it safe for my cat? Am a bit pfb too where my cats are concerned.

Fortunately we are in a safe area (cul de sac) so she is able to go outside again - but only when I am home and can let her in again once she's had enough.

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piratecat · 05/02/2009 07:50

hello fellow pirate!

I knw what you mean. My beautiful cat died back in 1999 when i lived in London, and it was bloody awful.

It's good to lessen thier chances, but they do tend to dary here and there. I live on a very rural town, on what you can call a main road, but it's not iyswim! I justhope she keeps to the back, which is gardens and quiet road.

I have a frined whose cat was run over on a cul de sac type road, it just happens. It's very sad. I alwyas try to remember what a fantastic cat my first one was, and how happy he was in his life prowling around!!

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piratecat · 05/02/2009 07:50

'dart'!

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PinkTulips · 05/02/2009 15:55

my kitten has his big brother to mind him when he goes out

he's 12 weeks and yesterday he and the 7 month old came out for a trundle across the field with us and played with the kids in the grass.

am still devastated about older kittens littermate though, he got hit on the road in november... lord knows how, there was a car going past only every 5 mins and he'd never left the garden before so god only knows why he went across our garden, across the garden behind us, over a 6 foot wall and across the road older kitten still doesn't go in that direction as there's nothing of interest over there no idea what he did it for, and at the driver who hit him, it's a huge wide road in front of a school so he should only have been going 50k/h and had plenty of space to swerve..... didn't even slow down after he did it... a friend drove along in the other direction minutes later and met him on the road but obviously didn't know til after that he'd hit my cat. certainly didn't occur to him to stop though there are only 2 houses on this patch of road so it wouldn't have taken him long to knock on our doors and find out if it was our cat.... thank god i found the kitten without the kids in tow.

i think no matter what age you start letting them out it's hard but the longer you hold it off for the less sense they have when out, that's why i'm letting this kitten out more than i did his older brothers when they were this age, i'm hoping he'll have a bit more sense as a result. still be a while before i dare to take my eyes off him though even with momma cat and big brother gaurding him

JollyPirate · 06/02/2009 07:28

It's good to know there's another pirate around piratecat. And we're both pfb about our cats too.. When I lost my cat in Oct 2007 I had to have two days off work because I was so distraught - thankfully the people I worked with were brilliant.

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piratecat · 06/02/2009 08:19

it came at a time for me when i was on the verge of a breakdown, and it pushed me over tbh.

I know how hard it is to lose a pet. x

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JollyPirate · 06/02/2009 08:35

Oh gosh pc - mine was at that kind of time too - am 15 months on now and feeling sooo much better but never want to feel that low ever again.

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