Hi all
I've have a Himalayan kitten who is now 6months old. After doing alot of research into picking this breed, I choose this one as I wanted a indoor cat. As we live in a unit, she can only stay indoors. For the first couple of months she was very content staying indoors and peering outside through the window ledge. In the last month, she has consistently tried to escape through the door outside and constant meowing at the door to get out. At first I bought her tons of toys and a stratching pole to amuse her. None of this worked so I then thought that maybe she was doing all this as she was on heat. I then decided to desex her earlier than planned and desexing her still made no difference. I was told by many people this breed is very happy indoors but I can not understand why she keeps trying to get out. I have tried so many tactics for her to understand that outdoors is a "no" with the tone of my voice and trying to distract her everytime I walk outside. I bought a harness to enable her to go for short walk outdoors but I think this makes it worse as she see's what she is missing out on. Since this breed is very affectionate and always wants to be around me, I am still not sure why she would want to go out.
Does anyone have any other suggestions. I can handle this if it's only temporary but do you think she will finally understand she has to stay indoors? It is just not possible for me to let her out but I also don't want her driving us crazy with the meows.
Thanks all
Amanda
I've have a Himalayan kitten who is now 6months old. After doing alot of research into picking this breed, I choose this one as I wanted a indoor cat. As we live in a unit, she can only stay indoors. For the first couple of months she was very content staying indoors and peering outside through the window ledge. In the last month, she has consistently tried to escape through the door outside and constant meowing at the door to get out. At first I bought her tons of toys and a stratching pole to amuse her. None of this worked so I then thought that maybe she was doing all this as she was on heat. I then decided to desex her earlier than planned and desexing her still made no difference. I was told by many people this breed is very happy indoors but I can not understand why she keeps trying to get out. I have tried so many tactics for her to understand that outdoors is a "no" with the tone of my voice and trying to distract her everytime I walk outside. I bought a harness to enable her to go for short walk outdoors but I think this makes it worse as she see's what she is missing out on. Since this breed is very affectionate and always wants to be around me, I am still not sure why she would want to go out.
Does anyone have any other suggestions. I can handle this if it's only temporary but do you think she will finally understand she has to stay indoors? It is just not possible for me to let her out but I also don't want her driving us crazy with the meows.
Thanks all
Amanda