Help! How to turn a barn cat into a...yard cat...
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Re: Help! How to turn a barn cat into a...yard cat...
You keep it where you want it to live until it learns that this new place is HOME because that is where its' food is and where the people who give it attention live. When kitten is comfortable with the new arrangement and you want to help transition it to being outside, you open the door and offer to go outside and exploring WITH it. Short trips in the beginning, helping kitty to explore and learn how to get back to its' safe-zone. If anything frightens it, help it get quickly and safely back to the safe-zone, trying to avoid situations where the kitty could get frightened and run in the wrong direction and become lost. Frequent short trips outside, getting longer and longer until kitty appears comfortable and knows how to get back to the safe-zone.
Re: Help! How to turn a barn cat into a...yard cat...
Well, "Cotton" has been spoiled rotten. S/He has been living inside so far, and is not sure what to think of Brooks, our GSP. But it's really really cute!!! We don't know what gender it is yet...
It's adorable though.
I took some pics last week, I want Mom to take a pic of it in its new favorite spot, on top of the axis hide that's draped across one of the couches.
tiny kitten asleep on my dad, who used to hate cats
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dun kitty! lol
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it looks like a koala
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Re: Help! How to turn a barn cat into a...yard cat...
It DOES look like a koala!
GREAT photo-link for how to tell the difference between a boy and girl kitten.
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Boy on the left, Girl on the right:
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Re: Help! How to turn a barn cat into a...yard cat...
Haha, thanks yall! I'm not so sure it's going to be an outside kitty anymore, dad seems quite enamored.
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Cotton's favorite spot.
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Awww...what a cutie...all my kitties also agree, nothing's better than Daddy's warm belly. It's like a cat magnet when he gets home from work lol.
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Aww pretty kitty!!