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bint_cj Wrote:

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> i must be having a slow day, i'm sure thats meant

> to be funny


Not necessarily. Woodrot is one of the forum's wiser members.


The solution to your actual problem is a litter tray. London (and Paris) are full of 'house cats' that will never know the pleasure of defecating in a neighbour's garden, or breathe anything fresher than Glade.


Some people are less than sure that this is a very nice way to treat cats, but it's better then the sack-and-housebrick method, and cats kept permanently indoors don't seem particularly loopier than the ones that get to play with foxes or spatter themselves over the lost and founds.

My flat is on the first floor but I there is a fire escape via my back door that leads to the garden - my cat-flap is therefore in the back door.


Another possibility would be to see of the other residents would mind you having a cat-flap installed in the communal front door (and one in your front door too obviously).


I knew someone once who had constructed miniature steps from a first floor window to the garden on the side-wall of the building - hard to get agreement for that from other residents/leaseholder I would have thought...

When I lived in a flat, I kept my cat indoors.


She was quite happy & I didn't have the worry of wondering where she was 24/7.


Plus, she was safe from getting killed by a car, or attacked by an out-of-control dog.


She had a litter tray & used to sun herself on the window-sill.


One of my neighbours had two house cats & used to take them for walks round the block on harnesses & leads!

Two suggestions:


1. Have a ground floor window left open at the bottom (with suitable window locks obviously). I once had a cat who happily let himself in and out of the window in that way.


Not too great in cold weather, obviously.


2. Let him/her out the door when he meows to go out. Let him/her in the door when he meows to come in.


I once lived on the third floor of a tenement in Scotland, and that was how our cat ( a stray who refused to move from our doormat until we adopted him) got in and out.


There is of course an obvious flaw. If your cat is an attention seeker or just bloody-minded, he or she will be in and out the door like a yoyo.

cats you say ?


I suggest Southwark Council transform the police station into a cat friendly organic shopping destination with cinema, sushi bar and waitrose. plenty of free bugaboo and ironic fixie parking and a smattering of ost berlin themed arts spaces for creatives. and a butchers with a difference - this one has comfy chairs and gratis copies of the guardian supplied outside, so your 3 hour queue is relaxing and homely. and whist we are on about it, lets get some locally owned shops in there - you know , ones that vend nothing but utter shite yet think that a pavement chalkboard display with a bit of amateur flowery writing gets down with the yummy mummies. and gift shops. lots of gift shops. shops that sell candles and cards. more card shops. more candle shops. more holistic therapy outlets. and another curry house. and a bakery / cafe that doesnt let kids in, or their parent or grandparents.and a nazxi grocers q3wldkjNSXPLFFKMLFVKNADMSLFVKGNDMFLVGBKDFXNBK ;pefmppekfmb;fbmr;glbmr;glbmrgbnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn...............................

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