Those with elderly/ill cats...does your cat climb the stairs?

[TheGreatIndoors]

Hello

I'm looking to move house. Wondering if I should go for a ground floor flat with garden access or a bungalow. Ie avoid 2 storey houses unless I can get cat to use a stairlift?!

My cats tend to like to follow me room to room so would get upset if I was upstairs and they couldn't climb up to me. Carrying them doesn't seem practical.

Thanks for any thoughts.

Mine are both 17 and both showing signs of old age. No problems climbing the stairs, yet anyway. And I have known other elderly cats that also had no issues. Jumping high, yes but not stairs.

Sadly Cat recently died a few days after her 23rd. Birthday. Had started to walk around a bit slowly, but kept the dogs in line!! And raced up the stairs like a kitten!!🐈‍⬛

My three are 17, they all manage the stairs though one has recently started to lurk around the top or bottom, meowing and looking hopefully at us. He spent the summer living his best life being pampered and carried up and down by the kids! Now they're back at Uni he is independent again. The other two use the stairs confidently.

My 17 year old puss can go upstairs. She recently started having injections for arthritis. I hadn't brought it up but she was at the vets for something else and they suggested it. It's hard to tell what effect it's having as I don't know what she'd be like without it

@Davros Solensia? Yeah my last cat had that very latterly.

Hmmm, maybe stairs are less of an issue than I thought then. I suppose it would only be for the very end of their life so I could work round it. I could contain myself to whatever level they were on most of the time.

Sorry to hear this! We had a 23 yr old cat with 3 legs who died in 2007. (Same age I was at the time)

Yes, Solensia. She had her second jab today as well we're back at the vets for a check up for something else

Thanks. She was a darling, and a feisty wee girl. She passed her 'mot' not long before she died, still eating well, but she had developed a bit of a hit & miss relationship with her litter tray & was getting soo thin, 😔it would have been cowardly & selfish to put her through any further diagnostics or surgery, so we held her tight while she drifted off the big goodnight 😢

Mine died at 22 and by the last couple of years, I think he had forgotten that we even had an upstairs!