We're about to purchase a second home with a view to going there at least one long weekend Thurs to Monday PM month and also at the very least spending our 5 weeks AL there as well. Our cat (now 6) whose never been overly interested in us in the last year has become decidedly more friendly (all since Ive changed his diet) and now sits with us when ever we sit down although never on our laps (he would shudder the thought). We have left him in the past when we go away and had someone coming in twice a day and he's been unbothered but when we went away for a week in September the lady who looked after him said he didn't like it at all.
So here's my question: can we take him with us when we go to our second home, do you think that with time we could eventually let him out into the garden and he would come back (he comes when called)? The house has three sets of French windows so in the better weather he could easily get out. There are no cars. He currently goes out into our small patio garden but it is walled/fenced in such a way that he cant get out because he cant jump more that 3 feet (that would be on a good day).
I think in the past I knew someone who had a flat cat in London and when she went to her country home let in out and adapted. Someone also told me that as he's never been out and about roaming around he's life has been confined to our house and our small garden at 6 he's unlikely to start living the high life and roaming around now.
He is not overly energetic (understatement he's currently sitting on the sofa cushion behind my head fast asleep), curious or brave, although he aspires to catch a bird but as he is frankly pretty dim white so not exactly camouflaged and unable to jump or climb it's only an aspiration.