Would we know you have cats without seeing them?

A guest would know I have cats before they open my front door...
I made a sign that is attached to the door like a welcome sign..

Originally Posted by AudioCat

I'd much rather have my house cluttered with toys and cat items than ever have someone come into my house...sniff the air and say "oh, you must have cats!" That to me would be the worst.

I too am very obsessed with keeping the litter boxes clean.

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My dh is very obsessive about keeping a clean litter box... the girls will wait until he cleans it to go. He scoops several times a day.

They would know because there is a big plastic box of litter by the door. They will usually put their toys away when finished.. (either in on of our shoes or under my desk). I also have a little cat condo under a chair and by the bathroom door. And the vinyl tablecloth on my kitchen table is in threads.

If the window was open you'd know by the meowing. And if the window was closed you'd open the door to meowing. Jack loves to hear himself talk and loves to meow when people come to the door and in the door. After all, it is all about him!

Leslie

No cat trees here. But the dead giveaway is the cat hair on the furniture and the toys scattered around the room.

You probably wouldn't even be able to tell we have cats when you walk into our house. The cat tree, dishes, and litterpans are all tucked away neatly into the laundry room -so they're really out of sight. I like it like that because the dogs can't get into the laundry room to get into the cat things. The only dead give away is if you walk far enough into the house to see a little cat door on the laundry room door.

We normally keep the dog and cat toys together in a little basket in the living room- so unless they've drug them in the floor (which they enjoy doing ) you'd never really know. The only pet thing we have in the living room is Whiskey's doggie couch which all of the furries love to take turns laying on....the rest of them prefer the human sofas

The only hint we have cats would be them greeting our guests at the door or an occassional cat toy strewn in the floor- other than that, we keep it pretty tidy. The cat's "room" is in the laundry room and you can't see that when you first walk in the house.

before you get inside yiou would notice that i am a cat person from the food and water dish outside for the kitties who roam the property, but inside my door is the living/dining room and generally Squishy greeting you, its just a 20X24 room kitchen just off to the left and two bedrooms and bathroom at the end on a small hallway, straight in the door is the end of the couch for it separates the room in half. to the right inside the door is our 75 gallon fish tank and front of it is a carpeted scratching post and around then corner of the wall is the tv and it holds a "da bird" type toy that i have braced under the tv so that Squishy and Smokey always can play with it. then directly behind the couch is where they dining room should be but since we dont eat in it we made it into the kitty room, it is full of a tunnel, play center, connectable play cubes, tons of toys with bells and balls and things that dont look like toys litterbox dishes, big fluffy bed if blankets on the floor and a car audio speakerbox covered with tufts of fur where they perch on it because its right up against the couch and the same height so they can sit at our heads then if you make it to the bedroom without noticing there are kitties you have another litter box and more dishes and toys there also and generally Smokey will be on the bed if he hasnt already greeted you. yep id say you would know

When I go out, or am in the garden Blossom is usually in the front window waiting for me or watching me gardening. In the house, one cat tree & several cat toys which she hardly touches.

You wouldn't know we had cats when you walk into the house unless Butzie is with me and talking to me. The door opens up to a vestibule, the formal living and dining rooms and the kitchen. None of her toys are up there except for some pipe cleaners.
Her scratching post, toys, "formal" window seat (she just sits on the ledge in front of our bedroom's windows on paper of course) and cat door are in the downstairs family room. Her litter box is in the laundry room down there as well. If guests come, I close the door to the downstairs because my other "kids" - DH and kids - have stained the carpet.
Guests would be more likely to know I have budgies because they chirp. They also talk "people" talk. I had one visitor very surprised when one said "I love you!"

At my house, you probably wouldn't know. All of the "cat stuff" is confined to two rooms, neither of which can be seen from the front door. The cats prefer to spend most of their time in those two rooms (which is why all their things are there). My cats are both middle-aged and don't do much running around anymore, nor are they very interested in visitors.

Originally Posted by yayi

The torn upholstery of most of the furniture, the chairs with scratch marks on their legs and the tufts of cat fur flying about.

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hey you live at my house too! oh and lets not forget the cat ornaments, pictures etc. i also have a stone cat on my front door step, massive clue there!

Let's see . . . cat ornaments galore, photos of my boys, the shredded couch, scratched door frames, and orange hair on everything . . . you tell me.

But you probably would see Oliver because he has to check out everyone who comes in. Rocky won't come out unless you've been there for a while.

People would know we have cats, our house has cat stuff everywhere Our house is their house

lets see there's the scratching post by the front window...
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and the toy mice, balls..etc scattered on the floor..
and of course the cats come to the door to say hi.

With a labrador my house looks more like a doggy day care than a kitty one. The only thing I have noticeable is a cat tree in the corner of the living room. I had to give my kitty something to get away from the crazy lab always wanting to play with her. She's older and lazy so she mostly stays in the bedroom. I joke with my roommate that for her it's like I don't even own a cat. Of course now that I'm getting a new aby kitten things are about to change.

Yes, you would know I had cats by entering the door. They are the masters of my house. My husband and I are their care givers! They let us share the master bed with them if were good! LOL

Spaz is greeter, but if, by some chance she was hiding somewhere, I think the great tufts of floating hair would be a clue.

Shark's radiator bed is right by the front door, so as soon as you walk in you can see it, the black fur smothering it is also a give-away. Unless of course, she is already lying in it

Brandy's ginger fur is everywhere you look too..

It might be difficult to tell PEOPLE lived here!

Laurie

Lets see....kitty fur, kitty fountains and kitty toys are very, very visible from the front door.
And if you happen to come to my door before I get home in the afternoon, you just might smell kitty poop, 'cuz I haven't been home to scoop for several hours, and two litterboxes are just behind the front door....after I get home though, nope!