Keeping your cats indoors

[Pam Flachs]

Wow, what a great looking dog, Josie! He does look like a bear....

 

[Nabco]

We trained our girls from the time they were kittens not to go outside, we can have someone come to the door for a delivery and they will both sit on the steps with zero interest in going outside....we will leave the patio door open to our
deck and they will sit right by the open door and will not step outside......I guess we're lucky

 

[NikkiA]

We trained our girls from the time they were kittens not to go outside, we can have someone come to the door for a delivery and they will both sit on the steps with zero interest in going outside....we will leave the patio door open to our
deck and they will sit right by the open door and will not step outside......I guess we're lucky

Your girls are lovely!

 

[admin]

We trained our girls from the time they were kittens not to go outside, we can have someone come to the door for a delivery and they will both sit on the steps with zero interest in going outside....we will leave the patio door open to our
deck and they will sit right by the open door and will not step outside......I guess we're lucky

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You trained them well They are very pretty, btw!

 

[Pam Flachs]

Pretty girls, Nabco! Great job on teaching them to stay inside

 

[cbain]

My feeling is that the cats that door dart would do so just from looking at the view from the window. We may be more likely to try leash-walking with the ones that do try to door dart or show extreme interest in the outdoors though... so it may make it seem that those things cause the door darting. I just think some are simply more curious and less reticent about trying than others.

 

[cbain]

We have 4 cats,2 are American shorthairs and 2 F3 Savannahs, about 5 years ago we a had Tonk male and we let him go outside due to we are in a wooded area and the last and only house on a cul de sac and it is safe, we left food and water out for him and a young feral cat found it, he is jet black with yellow eyes and we saw him trying to play with our old tonk, he didn't like people but we fed him anyway,about 6 months later he trusted us to pet him so we took him in and got him to our vet for shots and fixed, time and old age took our Tonk, my wife was at Pet Smart and saw a 7month old shorthair, white male with light blue eyes and a mask from a rescue group and we got him for company for our exferal cat, early summer 2012 we got a female Savannah kitten and we liked the breed so much that we got a male Savannah 3 months later, last June we let our rescue out the back door to the deck and yard , by July our male Savannah would attack both cats if they came in the house [big time] I called our vet and she said it's a territory war,when they leave the house and he can't fallow, borders are set, and I know your cat and he won't be a 2 place winner if invaded, and that is why I have a outside run installed and it gave our savannhs a place in the sun, things are cool now fights are rare now.
Savannah cats are the Corvette of cats

 

[SV Dad]

Savannah cats are the Corvette of cats

Oh Yeah! Don't we all know it!

 

[I Like Cats.]

After this morning door darting is becoming a major issue with my SV. Not with me, but with other members of the house. Unfortunately the SV finds it fun to dart across the street without consideration to cars, and at this rate she is going to end up roadkill.

A squirt bottle has slowly helped curve some of her behaviors, but this door thing is just getting worse. I honestly wish I'd never started leash walking her, because that is what started this. Its always the front door, even though she's never been allowed out it (back door and carried with harness for walks). Stopping the walks helped a little, but not enough.

She's about a year old now. I don't know what to do. She's a rescue and is difficult in general, but I can't be the door guardian for my family every time they want to leave the house.

 

[Kristin]

Some people on this forum have set someone up outside the door with a leaf blower to scare the cat into staying inside when they try to dart out. I'm sure they will be able to give you more details