Cats In Flats

He does as he is told.

You mean he pee's in the Bath


Next .......

No. He pees where you tell him. It is just a matter of telling him that disobedience will result in a one-way trip to the vet.
He will then obey your every word. He has become a good cat. It is not easy to train cats...you must make sure that he heeds your word.

Surely it borders on cruelty to keep a cat confined like that though
I was always lead to believe they were creatures of independent means

I wouldn't keep a cat without a garden myself, but I've noticed that with (at least) some Americans it's kind of the other way around: they think it's cruel to let a cat wander around outside where it could get attacked by, er, a coyote or something or hit by a car. A girl from Chicago got quite annoyed with me once on another forum for saying that cats should be independent.

Only if you let them. It can take a long time to find a good cat. I was on number three hundred and something before I got a good 'un. It's very time consuming and the vet's bills are quite high on account of all the euthanasia and stuff. There re a lot of extremely naughty kittens out there!
Anyway, I finally found an obedient one so we moved on to the next step of his training...this is 'Learning not to Eat'. This is fairly easy to teach them.
Unfortunately, just as I'd got him used to not eating, he went and died. This really upset me.

I never replaced Lucky. I just never found the time to train a new one.

^^^To Moonbeam.

There is Gardeny type stuff around the outside & lots of cats seem to wander around here at night safely enough so would be fine if he could get in & out , but that's the problem 

Obviously they could let him out at night & back in the morning but I doubt that'd work as he's hardly gonna sit waiting by the main entrance door to get let back in & unless it was the owner waiting for him he'd have another door downstairs & another door on the 2nd floor to get through , just seems almost impossible to me , but agree they should be independent Patra

Cats can't be trained - they're too stupid.
A typical sight is for a cat to sit on the pavement and wait for a vehicle to approach.
Then when the vehicle is close the cat then runs in front of it.
Cat's are the most stupid of animals in this respect.

Many cats get killed this way, so why do they do it?

A cat tried to attack my dog once. She was on the lead and was raring to go. If I'd let her off she would have ripped the cat to pieces. It was almost like the cat knew I was never going to let the dog off the lead so was just taking the piss. I thought it was hilarious.

I actually think cats are quite smart Dr Crippen , that's why they Can't be trained not the other way around , but is like they enjoy dicing with death just for the pure thrill of it

Mc Moonbean,
I see.
So people who achieve nothing in life are the smart ones because they can't be trained to do anything?

Well in a roundabout kinda way .. Yes

If you're trained to dig great big holes all day long does that make you smart

"Cats in flats"
I clicked on this thread hoping for a new poem by Dr Seuss, and it's ruined my Friday that it wasn't .

Keeping cats in houses permanently isn't uncommon. They can get so used to it they are agoraphobic if allowed out. I suppose they don't know what they're missing.

I like cats buy I wouldn't let one stay out overnight, they are b*ggers for slaughtering wildlife.

When I was a kid we had a big, uncastrated tom cat who kept the rat population down - much better at this than the terrier we also had. Had him as a kitten but he quickly turned feral (probably because he never had his nuts removed)

Never had to feed the cat - he lived solely off the rats. Used to make a right racket when he was killing a big one in the middle of the night - big rats don't go down without a fight. Lived mostly outdoors but would come in when it was really cold outside for a warm.

Also had a 'house' cat a few years ago. A little female. Never, ever wanted to go outside. Used a litter tray in the bathroom. Always seemed content. So I think cats, especially females can live indoors quite happily.

Crazy cat loving daughter had two cats in UK. One very pretty and calm and the other with psychopathic tendencies.

She worked long hours and otherwise was always out "good lifeing" and jetting off to the far corners.

Not fair to the cats and cost her a fortune in cattery fees etc.

Now she's in Australia and was initially in a rented flat with a total ban on pets.

So what does she do? She gets a cat from a lady who was close to the end, and the poor bloody thing is locked in all day when she's at work,
and all night and weekends when she is out "good lifeing".

The poor bloody thing ended up at the vets, as it was going loopy and was diagnosed with depression, and put on anti-depressants!

Fortunately she has finally seen sense now she bought her own place and the cat has gone.[img]http://images.onesite.com/community.betfair.com/user/aunty_post/dd35d2e4ed69a993488bf56b8487950e.jpg?v=190350[/img]

This is one of her two cats that she had to re-home when she left here.