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Due to our recent sightings of a mouse in our home (:eek:) we recently got a moggy as the mice were getting the food from the traps we put down but not getting trapped!?
Anyway he is an indoor cat and has been a bit spoilt by his previous owner.As far as we know he is about 9 months old.He was fine the first couple of days but this morning since we got up his been manically running around the lounge and kitchen as if he is hunting/trying to catch something (which isnt there)....my question is...is this normal for an indoor cat???
Is it because he is not releasing his energy by going outside?
How can i calm him down a bit when he does go mad?
Im asking because its a bit scary for my Jack and his been scratched by the cat (although it didnt leave a mark).

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Cats have those 'mad do s' - nothing to get concerned about - it's just a bit alarming at first because of the wild look they get in their eyes.

My cat is geriatric now and hasn't 'played out' for 2 years, but still has mad do s occasionally. When he did 'play out' he had them in the house - they're like 'hunting practice'

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Ours does this just after being fed racing about upstairs and down she is 12 years old but acts like a kitten sometimes:D

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Thank goodness for that-was getting worried cos we have become really attached to him now, thanks guys x

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Don`t worry, the missus gets like that sometimes.............;)

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I don't really understand the concept of an "indoor cat".

Do you intend to keep him indoors for the rest of his life?

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I remember one of the cats I had when a youngster used to arch its back and hop sideways if you disturbed it whilst having a mad do.
It was so funny they are strange creatures arent they !!

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Some cats never have outdoor hunting and 'what they don't know they don't miss'. They tend to need indoor toys more, for satisfaction of hunting instincts.

I made the decision to keep my cat indoors soon after I moved here, because I can't have a catflap(tenant), and he caught several parasites from other cats in the area. Also this area is a place where dog walking is rife.

Because he was accustomed to freedom to come and go at any hour, he was quite furious about it first - now he doesn't seem to bother - likes his home comforts at age 15

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thats how every cat should be kept ,well done to those that do this it shows condsideration for other people and for every cat kept indoors its one less cat out there potentialy causing blindness in children , people keep birds in cages,fish in a tank so why not keep a cat in the house

if you think an animal should not be caged then should anyone have any sort of pet at all and leave animals in their natural enviroment ?

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He was in a top floor flat at his home before and they had him as an indoor cat from day one so now he is actually too frightened to go outside.Someone told me if i just keep leaving the door open he will eventually decide to go outside through curiousity but will probably never go further than the back fence.Which is fine with me, i just think its weird keeping a cat in ALL the time.
Even if he does goes outside i shall keep his litter tray here so he can still do all his business here and not in anyones garden.

But so far so good, his settling in well and seems to have taken to me a bit more than he has Corker n Jack which i reckon is because i was the one that went n picked him up.

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Cats can be very funny about who they 'own' in the household. Bracken definitely is Em's cat. She's quite timid and very wary of strangers and more or less tolerates the rest of us. She does tend to boss me about when I'm the only human at home though.

Furby on the other hand is definitely Busman's friend, even though he wasn't even at home when we went to collect Furbs as a kitten! If Furby isn't around and Em isn't here then Bracken will be friends with Busman. :D

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Sassy is Tylers cat, she doesnt come near me and i feed her! they are both as mad as each other as well and have mad running around do's together lol

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In the car on the way back he was very scared but i soothed him enough to the point where he laid down on my lap and was just looking out the car window...i thought maybe because of that he has taken to me......or maybe im just alot nicer than the lads in this house haha

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Use to have a tom cat when I lived in Hassy so some mice, got the cat never saw the mice again, and the cat either, that is until it was hungry or when it was cold, then it used to knock on the kitcen window:D

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I prefer house cats, at least there not pooping in my garden then :mad:

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a word of caution because the advice you got isnt exactly true

a friend of mine had a house cat that had never left the house apart from visits to the vets etc , one day it got out and wasnt seen for about 3 or 4 weeks when it turned up in the back yard in a pretty bad condition

when put back in the home it started to have mad do's and even clawed its way up the wall digging into the wallpaper , it was pretty awfull seeing an animal this way because it was going crazy inside but went worse if you tried taking it outside

he took it to the vets and was told that it had basicly gone insane caused by it been outside and been flung into what to it was a very un natural enviroment and had to be put down

not saying this coz i hate cats or to wind you up but its well known that housecats taht have lived in the home for years cant cope when flung into the outside world and they never come back the same

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I wouldn't kick him out anyway, il just leave the back door open n let him do what he wants.

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we have an indoor cat and yes she has mad dos at night

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I wouldn't mind if it was at night whilst were tucked up in bed but he keeps catching our legs whilst his 'hunting' :(

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Get rid of it then.

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His not done it since i made this thread........hoping it was a one off :)

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Ah, now that explains why I've never been successful with fish, I used to let mine out at night.

No it isn't they seem to stay weird for ever!

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Ah well, i havent seen a mouse since he moved in so he is here for good now.

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i thought my fish had epilepsy but the vet said all they needed was to be put back into water and they would be fine;)

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Your cat - or Felix Domesticus - is a singular creature. It will live with you contentedly, allowing you to feed it, stroke it and generally adore it but, every now and then, it will give you a swipe of the unsheathed claw just to remind you its ancestors were wild and ferocious, and it could be ferocious too - if it could be bothered - which it can't.

Occasionally it will have to go "berresk" and fly round the room, 3 feet above the floor, by means of the curtains, wallpaper and 3-piece suite. This (according to my late father - a cat lover, cat trainer and cat connoisseur) is having a "Tommy Berry Do". No human being (apart from my late father) seems to have a clue who Tommy Berry is or was - but Felix Domesticus does, and pays homage to this mysterious figure in its flight up and down your best curtains (velour is favoured - a downward-sliding cat's claws can make the most intricate patterns in the nap).

The reward for your patience, and your persistant worship in the form of providing very expensive cat food to be ignored and allowed to become encrusted with bluebottle eggs, is that Felix Domesticus will keep your environment free of vermin. It will also reward you with the eminently sensual brushing of your lower legs with its silky fur and the companionship of its presence on your knee as it purrs you into willing submission.

Cats! Love them or hate them - you'd be overrun with rats and mice without them.

;)

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Love it West Ender!!!!

My postman actually plays with my cat (she ((the cat)) seems to think she is in fact a rottweiler) and so posting letters seems to take a lot of faffing and laffing from either side lol

I didnt really rate cats before I got this one (was working so couldnt look after a dog), but wouldnt give Bob up for anything now!

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Bob liked me the other week ;) she not my type tho lol

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To be fair, she likes anything at that time of month, has a major thing about handbags and shoes. Thinking about it, I may have a cat with a leather fetish.

Oh and Bobs a girl cat btw if anyones confused

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Our cat has a shoe fetish, Onlyme. It is mainly leather shoes, especially Laura's school shoes, and most of all when they're newly polished. She rolls on them, rubs on them, dribbles on them, sticks her face inside them, cuddles them and clutches them in her paws. I think it's the combination of leather polish and the smell of Laura's feet. What ever it is, it sends her completely loopy. :D