The last few weeks Boots has been a right PITA after his evening meal, after which he likes to go out for a while.
He always goes to the front door and cries, then as soon as I get there he runs away, so I sit down again. This goes on for the next half hour until I lose patience and try to pick him up. We then have to go through him running from one room to another and the process of closing each door until I've got him trapped!
He doesn't do it during the day, so I wonder if it's because he's scared of other cats around at night or if he's worried he won't be able to get back in if the cat flap draught excluder is on. I always take it off if they go out after dark.
Once he's out its fine, he will stay out for about an hour.
Post by Berry McPaper-cuts on Dec 4, 2017 22:24:28 GMT
Boris and Katya will only go out of the front door at night Frazz, but over the last month on the occasions Boris has refused to come in at bedtime he has been fighting. We have had a bloody ear and loose fur. Don’t know who he is battling with. He seems quite cheerful about it.
Sounds like the desire to go out at night, as many cats do, over the desire not to get wet or cold. Our Millie will ask to go out of the back door, find it's p*ssing down and retreat to the front door to see if it's OK there. The desire to poo is by this time too much to bear, so she grudgingly goes out the front.
What a routine Frazz. it was funny when I realised that Harvey hadn't pestered to go out the front door for almost a week when he was poorly. It was only when he wanted to that I realised that he hadn't wanted to if you know what I mean.
Bizarrely Harvey isn't bothered by the rain. Or snow either. Very unusual for a cat. Alfie was the same though. If he wants to go out and it's raining he just goes out. And he stays out too. In the winter he goes out after breakfast, as he does in summer. It might be for a shirt while or he could be gone for two or three hours. Fascinates me what the he'll he does outside in the rain for a few hours.