Hi, I want to tell you about my experience in moving with my cats to a new house.
I live in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
I was very sad because I had to leave behind two cats that I was feeding.
They ate at home, slept in an open garage, but wouldn't let me touch them.
Finally I moved with two dogs and my four cats. I rescued three cats less than a year ago.
Two of them appeared, with a difference of a month or so, without a leg, full of flies. Apparently they were attacked by dogs. They were feral cats, but I could cure them and they adapted to my house, though they were very independent and went in and out to the street whenever they wanted.
I moved a week ago. I don't let them go outside, to the front yard, but they do go out to the back small garden. If I don't let them go out, they scream frantically. I wake up twice at least at night, because one of them, one that has only three legs, Garfy, screams as he wants to go out to the front yard and the street.
Today, Garfy climbed a two or three meter tall wall, with the help of a climbing plant.
When I noticed his absence, I went desperately out to the street to look for him.
Miraculously I found him standing in the driveway of a house around the block.
Evidently he wants to go back to the environment where he was born.
I realize it is very difficult to move with feral cats which are used to an area.
I'll walk with him twice a day, with a harness, so that he gets acquainted with the place.
I live in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
I was very sad because I had to leave behind two cats that I was feeding.
They ate at home, slept in an open garage, but wouldn't let me touch them.
Finally I moved with two dogs and my four cats. I rescued three cats less than a year ago.
Two of them appeared, with a difference of a month or so, without a leg, full of flies. Apparently they were attacked by dogs. They were feral cats, but I could cure them and they adapted to my house, though they were very independent and went in and out to the street whenever they wanted.
I moved a week ago. I don't let them go outside, to the front yard, but they do go out to the back small garden. If I don't let them go out, they scream frantically. I wake up twice at least at night, because one of them, one that has only three legs, Garfy, screams as he wants to go out to the front yard and the street.
Today, Garfy climbed a two or three meter tall wall, with the help of a climbing plant.
When I noticed his absence, I went desperately out to the street to look for him.
Miraculously I found him standing in the driveway of a house around the block.
Evidently he wants to go back to the environment where he was born.
I realize it is very difficult to move with feral cats which are used to an area.
I'll walk with him twice a day, with a harness, so that he gets acquainted with the place.