Moving just down the road - tips needed!

[ThatIsNachoCheese]

We are very possibly going to moving almost just across the road from our current house.
We've had our cat since July and I'm really worrying that she will just keep coming back here.
Obviously we will keep her in initially when we move, but is there anything we can do to help her realise where her new home is?
Thank you in advance

Oh that is a difficult one. She will work it out. Would she be crossing a busy road to go back to the old house?

You will just have to keep her in for even longer than normally recommended I think. Four weeks minimum I would say.

Yes it is really difficult, it's not a move we want either so I'm hating every second!
No busy road at all, it's in the same estate.
We will buy a cheap cat flap for this one when we leave and will lock it so she can't come in (its going to be empty for a bit I think) and will keep her in for at least 4 weeks.
I'm hoping the call of dreamies and her favourite blanket will help her in realising her new home...
Thank you

Years ago when I was a kid we moved on a temp basis to a house round the corner whilst out house had some repair work done after a flood. We were going to keep feeding the cats at the old house because they mainly lived outside and the utility room was OK anyway.

Within a few hours we had the cats on the doorstep of the new house miowing to be let in!

I reckon she will work it out OK once she is used to the new house.

We moved two roads away,. We wanted to keep ours in for at least three weeks, but my boy hated being kept indoors. We made sure he couldn't leave the back garden and let him out for short periods of time - trying to stay with him. All was well for eight months and one morning he wasn't in. Guess where he was - outside our old house. I had to go and collect him for about a week. He did the same about a year later and I had to go on kittykat collection service as I called it. When I bought him home, he just accept it. I know I'm not reassuring you, all I can say is lock your old cat flap when you leave (if the new owners don't have cats hopefully it'll remain closed) and let the new people know who you are in case your little one turns up. Luckily we'd exchanged numbers with the other lady and she phoned to let us know he was there.

The positive things for you are that you haven't had your cat too long (I'd had my 14 years at the same address) and the fact she's a girl she might be a bit more home loving.

Try and keep him in as long as you can - think the advice is 3 weeks but our boy was climbing the walls after a week. I went out with him first couple of times. I also sprinkled a bit of his (used) cat litter around the edges of the garden.

Thank you all, some wonderful, reassuring advice there.
She does seem to have finally fallen in love with us, which keeps me hopeful that she'll realise home is where we are. (If only I could convince the kids of this!) I will try and keep her in for as long as possible and hopefully it won't upset her too much
I feel a lot better about it now!
Thank you