Our little girl is 10/11 months, and we've only had her a couple of weeks. She is very playful and active and an inside cat. I want to keep her stimulated and happy, and am wondering how much a cat needs to be happy?
We are in a 2 bedroom townhouse, about 1000 sq. feet. So it's not a huge house, but there's enough room for her to tear around the house and play. She'd been in a car accident and was recovering when we took her in, and was never reclaimed by her previous owners despite being a beautifully sweet cat, so not sure how much play and attention she got previously. She's certainly happy and doesn't want to venture outside.
So anyway, she eats dangly toys, and anything she can get her mouth around (only eats things she plays with though), so we have had to be careful about what we get her.
She has a circular toy with a mousey in it she can bat around which she LOVES playing with, a slightly smaller than fist sized cat toy (I still don't know what creature it is...) that she loves playing with and chasing around, a scratcher with a toy in it she bats around, and we just bought a laser pointer for her to chase as well, as an interactive toy so we can play with her (as opposed to toys she plays with on her own).
Is this enough do you think? I ask because she races around the house, and jumps up on two walls in particular. There's nothing on them, she just runs up to them and leaps as high as she can. She regularly has kitty psycho hour where her ears go back, the eyes get big and she tears around the house (which I know all cats do), but I'm worried she's not getting enough stimulation, especially when she throws herself up on these walls! She's had a broken pelvis, so I'm not sure if she's burning off energy after being slowed down for so long, but I'm also worried she's going to hurt herself doing this! She often sits down with one leg splayed out a bit after a psycho session - like it's aching a bit.
She's a happy cat, and seems very content, I'm just a worried mummy
We are in a 2 bedroom townhouse, about 1000 sq. feet. So it's not a huge house, but there's enough room for her to tear around the house and play. She'd been in a car accident and was recovering when we took her in, and was never reclaimed by her previous owners despite being a beautifully sweet cat, so not sure how much play and attention she got previously. She's certainly happy and doesn't want to venture outside.
So anyway, she eats dangly toys, and anything she can get her mouth around (only eats things she plays with though), so we have had to be careful about what we get her.
She has a circular toy with a mousey in it she can bat around which she LOVES playing with, a slightly smaller than fist sized cat toy (I still don't know what creature it is...) that she loves playing with and chasing around, a scratcher with a toy in it she bats around, and we just bought a laser pointer for her to chase as well, as an interactive toy so we can play with her (as opposed to toys she plays with on her own).
Is this enough do you think? I ask because she races around the house, and jumps up on two walls in particular. There's nothing on them, she just runs up to them and leaps as high as she can. She regularly has kitty psycho hour where her ears go back, the eyes get big and she tears around the house (which I know all cats do), but I'm worried she's not getting enough stimulation, especially when she throws herself up on these walls! She's had a broken pelvis, so I'm not sure if she's burning off energy after being slowed down for so long, but I'm also worried she's going to hurt herself doing this! She often sits down with one leg splayed out a bit after a psycho session - like it's aching a bit.
She's a happy cat, and seems very content, I'm just a worried mummy
