Letting a cat out after moving house...

[tabulahrasa]

There’s no such thing as keeping them in too long, eh?

If I don’t think she’s settled yet - I should still keep her in?

It’s been 3 weeks btw, I might be being a bit precious, rofl...

But she’s real timid and nervy and is only complaining occasionally about the lack of outside, with no serious attempts to get out - though I’m pretty sure she only realised where the outside doors are the other day, lol, it’s a much much bigger house.

I was actually reading about this yesterday. What I saw said 2 weeks, but also when they're settled, I would go with the settling one. They need to feel like they're coming home after they've been out!
When my cat had to stay in I bought a laser light for us to play with to run off some of her energy and she's happy with that. But she's a complete princess and won't go out in bad weather anyway so we never have issues during winter

Mine were in about 2 weeks ish. But we have a largish back garden and we kept the door open so they could come and go. I've got a 5 month old kitten who has just been spayed so technically could go out when her stitches come out, but I aren't going to let her out until the spring when I can keep the door open again.

She doesn’t have much excess energy tbh, lol

She’s 10, and very middle aged nowadays - really only goes out for half an hour at a time, if it’s not wet.

It’s just she’ll hide if she gets a fright and I’m a bit worried she’s not settled enough to run back inside to hide.

She is settled enough to be roaming the house fine, but it took about a week for her to come out of her bedroom and she still skulks in the living room.

Though, she’s a bit skulky at the best of times tbh, lol.

I am probably being overly cautious, it’s just, I’m not her person, DD is and DD moved out to go be a student and left her and then lockdowns and stuff... then we moved her to a new house, when she gets freaked out at new furniture...

She is my cat btw, not DD’s, just she thinks otherwise