If the cat does not go to the litter box
If your pet lived with you for several years, and everything was wonderful, and then he began to go to the toilet throughout the apartment (and this is why you are worried about moving), then, firstly, you need to exclude stress factors, such as -secondly, health factors.
It is quite possible that the cat is afraid to go to the litter box because a child is running along the corridor. Or a neighbor’s cat began to appear on the balcony nearby, your cat became worried and began to mark the territory.
Another possibility is that your pet has developed cystitis, kidney disease or joint problems, and the tray has high sides and is simply uncomfortable for him.
In general, the animal needs to be closely monitored.
And another very important note: ideally there should be several trays at home. One cat has at least two, but if there are two cats, then there should already be three trays. In nature, cats do not go to the toilet in the same place, and they also do not really like to share territory.
Run over someone else's cat with a car: sign
A stranger or homeless animal is a completely different matter.
A sign for a woman to hit a cat with a car on the road
For a car lady, such an incident threatens the appearance of a serious rival in love. If you are married or in a relationship, start sounding the alarm - another lady has her eye on your betrothed and will not rest until she takes him away from the family.
A man did not hit a cat with his car on purpose: a sign
Representatives of the stronger sex should be wary of betrayal that will come from friends or colleagues. Discord in the family is less likely, although if we are talking about a downed tricolor or pregnant cat, then troubles will affect the sphere of personal life.
A more alarming omen for both women and men says: the cat is knocked down first, the dog second, the man third. Now you have to be doubly careful on the road.
Dogs, toilet and mind games
The intelligence of dogs is somewhere at the level of a five-year-old child, so in order for dogs to behave well, they must be physically stressed. These should not just be outings for five minutes, after which you wonder why the dog blew your battery, but full-fledged walks.
And you also need to tax your pet mentally - invite the dog to guess which hand the treat is in, or hide a ball during a walk, and then look for it together. If this is done in the morning, the dog will be able to sleep peacefully for the rest of the day. Dogs sleep up to 20 hours a day. Of course, this does not apply to puppies.
But the main thing is walking. You need to go for walks even with a very small dog. Keeping a dog in an apartment for several months without walking it is cruel.
If the dog howls when the owner leaves
Neighbors may be unhappy if they sit at home during the day, you go to work, and the dog howls until you return. This happens when a dog becomes too fixated on one family member. In this case, it is worth showing the animal that it is no less healthy to have contact with other people. When she understands this, she will be emotionally discharged. Otherwise, things can turn into disaster: if something happens to the person whom the dog considers closest, the animal may refuse food and water, and then die altogether.
Another reason for howling is the pet’s low self-esteem.
In this case, various activities that raise this self-esteem will help: the same search tricks - “in which hand is the treat?”, or you can put two jars, in one of which we hide the treat; first we show the dog how to find it, then we praise and give an additional treat for each successful attempt. As a result, the dog realizes its eating behavior and asserts itself - that is, it understands that if something happens, it can handle it itself, it can get food, and it will not die of hunger.
Dogs learn through play, and learning for dogs is as basic a need as the need for food and nourishment. In the last five years, intelligent dog toys have become very popular, most of them based on the principle of food reward. The dog must do something to get food. You can buy such toys, or you can make them yourself. For example, some people take an egg from a kinder, drill holes in it, put a treat inside, and the dog must open the egg. This way, all family members can play with her, so that she can see that they are all at least worthy of attention.
Cat and newborn baby
If there's anything worse than moving, it's moving with your cat. However, with proper planning of this process, everything should go smoothly. Cats develop strong attachments to their environment, so moving is a potentially stressful situation. Planning ahead will ensure that the move from your previous home to your new one goes smoothly. After all, it's stressful for you first and foremost, so it's good to have one less thing to worry about.
Moving day
· Before the van arrives, it is recommended to lock the cat in a room - preferably in the bedroom.
· Bring the cat carrier, bed, food and water bowls, and litter box into this room and make sure all windows and door are tightly closed.
· Post a notice on the room door warning movers and family members not to leave the door open.
· Furniture and belongings from the bedroom should be loaded into the van last, after everything has been removed from other rooms. Before moving furniture out of the bedroom, place your cat in a carrier and carry it to the car. The journey to a new home has begun!
When transporting your pet, follow the tips below:
· First of all, you need to move the furniture from the bedroom to your new home.
· In the room where your pet will temporarily stay, place an automatic cat pheromone sprayer at floor level (you can buy Feliway replacement units at your veterinary clinic). Once the room is ready, you can place the cat, her bed, food and water bowls and a litter box there, and then close the door tightly. If possible, have one of your family members stay in the room with your pet while he explores the new area.
· Offer your cat some food.
· Once the move is complete, you can let your pet explore the new home little by little, room by room.
· It is important to remain as calm as possible yourself so that your cat feels safe.
· Make sure all exterior windows and doors are closed.
· Make sure that your cat does not sneak into the kitchen or utility room unnoticed - especially impressionable animals seek refuge in narrow crevices behind household appliances.
· If your cat is particularly sensitive, it is recommended that you place her in a cat hotel the day before moving and pick her up the day after you have settled into her new home.
How to transport your cat
· If your cat is not prone to travel, talk to your veterinarian in advance - they may prescribe a mild sedative.
· Feed your pet as usual, but make sure he eats at least three hours before travel on the day of your move.
· Transport your cat in a secure container - a basket or a special carrier.
· Spray the inside of the carrier with synthetic cat pheromones (Feliway, Ceva - you can get these from your veterinarian) half an hour before placing the cat in it.
· Place the carrier on the seat and secure it with the seat belt, behind the seat or in the back seat, securing it securely so that it cannot tip over.
· Do not transport your cat in a cargo van or car trunk.
· If the journey is long, you can stop and offer your pet water or the opportunity to use the litter box, although most cats will not need this.
· If you are traveling on a hot day, make sure the car is well ventilated, and never leave your cat inside a hot car while stopping along the way.
How to Help Your Cat Get Accustomed to a New Home
· Keep your cat indoors for at least two weeks until she gets used to her new environment.
· Feed your pet small, frequent meals.
· Maintain your previous daily routine to ensure your pet is comfortable in his new home.
· Try to make your cat feel safe in her new home. This can be achieved by spreading its scent throughout the house: take a soft cotton towel (or thin cotton gloves) and rub it on the cat's cheeks and head - this will increase the activity of the glands located on the face. Use this towel or gloves to rub the corners of door frames, walls, and furniture at your cat's height to help her learn new territory faster. Do this daily until you notice that the cat is rubbing itself against objects in the house.
· Continue using synthetic cat ferromone by placing the sprayer in different corners of the house, room by room.
· Indoor cats need extra attention as new surroundings will make them anxious.
Letting the cat go outside
· Keep your cat indoors for a couple of weeks to allow her to adapt to her new surroundings.
· Make sure that your cat has some kind of identification tag (a collar with an easily detachable part so that your pet cannot get caught) that contains information about the animal's name, as well as your address and telephone number.
· Instead (or in addition to this), you can purchase a microchip, which will ensure that if your cat gets lost, it can always be found. If your pet is already microchipped, notify the registrar company promptly of any changes in address or phone number.
· Make sure your vaccinations have not expired.
· As your cat adapts to its new surroundings, you can install a special small cat door on the door so that it can go outside in your absence. Make sure that this device is equipped with an electronic or magnetic system that controls entry into the house - it will not allow stray cats to enter the house.
· Drive away all cats that enter your garden - your pet needs your help to secure its territory, because it is a “newbie”.
· Let your pet gradually master the space outside the house. First, open the door for him yourself and go out into the yard with him.
· If your cat is used to being on a leash, it can be helpful to take her for a walk around the garden while leading her on a leash.
· Do not carry your pet outside in your arms - let him decide for himself whether he wants to explore the territory.
· Always keep the door open at first so that your cat can return to the house if something scares her.
· Cats that are used to living outdoors and have a lot of experience with changes in life usually cope well with any situation; Shy cats may need some time to adapt to new surroundings; they should be accompanied outside until they feel confident.
How to prevent your cat from returning to its previous home
If your new home is not far from the previous one, your pet, while exploring the territory, may stumble upon familiar travel routes that will lead him straight to his previous home. You should warn new residents that your cat may return to the previous home and ask them to contact you if they see her. It is important that new residents do not feed or reward your pet in any way - this will confuse him. If you are not far from your previous place of residence, it is better to keep the cat at home for as long as possible. However, this is rarely possible because cats, which tend to return to their previous hunting grounds, will not tolerate confinement in the house for such a long time. Follow the tips above to help your cat adjust to his new environment. Synthetic and natural aromas will also help you cope with this task, which will make the environment more familiar. It may take several months after leaving the previous home for your pet to fully get used to the new home. If this process causes a lot of stress for your cat, if she keeps returning to her previous home or crosses busy roads to get there, it may be more humane and safer for her to ask new residents or neighbors you are friends with to take her in.
Lifestyle changes
It is not recommended to accustom a cat, accustomed to a free life, to live exclusively at home. However, sometimes it is necessary, and moving to a new home is exactly such a case. If your cat spends most of its time outside, it may be wiser to find another home for it. If, on the other hand, your pet spends little time outside, he can safely be kept indoors in the future. Indoor cats require more effort from the owner to provide adequate exercise and prevent your pet from becoming bored. Below are some tips on how to improve your pet cat's environment:
· Hide portions of dry food in different corners of the house so that your cat can “hunt.”
· Provide several places for your pet to sit high off the floor and provide scratching posts for him to climb on.
· Regularly, at least once a day, play games with your cat that stimulate its hunting instinct.
Sometimes cat owners are so successful in choosing a new home that they can immediately allow their pet to go outside. Changing your cat's lifestyle from indoor to outdoor, if done smoothly, can improve her emotional well-being and provide a more natural life.
Follow our tips when training your cat to be outdoors, but remember that this should happen gradually. Many cats, under such circumstances, will prefer to go outside only if accompanied by you in order to feel safe.
Moving to a smaller home
If you have several cats, you need to keep in mind that each of them is used to having a certain living space in their previous home. Moving to a smaller home can cause conflict between animals. You must reduce the risk of confrontation between your pets by ensuring sufficient resources:
· Beds
· Trays
· Scratching posts
· Food bowls
Water bowls
· Highly located places for rest (cabinets, cupboards, shelves)
· Secluded corners where each animal could hide (under the bed or closet).
Moving to a new home is perhaps one of the most stressful situations in life. help your cat quickly get used to new living conditions, make sure that this period passes more calmly and with a minimum of problems - and peace and harmony will come to your home faster.
How to prepare an animal for moving
Preparation measures depend on the individual animal. It's generally easier with dogs because most dogs are human-oriented. If your pet has good contact with a person, then he won’t care where you go. They also treat carrying very calmly. All you have to do is put a treat there and they will come in.
A dog carrier is not a prison, but a hole, and dogs love holes.
It's more difficult with cats. Of course, there are very social cats that are not afraid of anything and love contact with people and other animals, but this is a very rare case, one in a hundred thousand. For most cats, the territory in which they have become accustomed is important, so moving is a big stress for them, as is carrying. So the carrier needs to be set up several weeks in advance. Open the door, put the cat's toy in there, place bowls of food and water nearby, and wait for the cat to go in there on her own, so that she gets used to it and understands that the carrier is an ordinary object. A cat that has mastered the carrier is more than half the success.
The rest will depend on the pet's life experience. If the animal was transported incorrectly before, it will panic. Therefore, it is important that the first move of a small cat is as comfortable as possible. If you took a kitten in a very tight carrier, he was hot, he sat there for a long time without the opportunity to drink water, then he will most likely remember this and will project the difficult experience onto subsequent trips.
The cat threw himself under the car: a warning sign
If an animal, frightened by something or someone, rushes headlong right under a moving car, Fate makes it very clear that you need to reconsider your path. This applies not only to the route of the car, but also to your own life path. It's time to make a sharp turn to get where you need to be.
There are other cases when cats help their owners make the right decision. For example, if a kitten interferes with the car’s departure, the sign recommends reconsidering plans for the near future. It might be worth walking or calling a taxi. Or even stay home if possible. It is not for nothing that the beliefs of many peoples of the world endow cats with ultra-fine intuition, which helps them not only avoid troubles themselves, but also protect those they love from them.
Anti-anxiety medications
For cats that experience travel pain, many people buy sedatives. The simplest thing is pheromones. Sometimes they are sold in a bottle, sometimes, as a mosquito repellent, in the form of a device with a plate that is inserted into an outlet. The animal smells the plant components and becomes calmer. But you still need to consult a veterinarian before doing this.
In general, before moving, it’s worth consulting in any case, because if the animal has health problems, after the stress it has experienced, they will manifest themselves more strongly, and you should at least have a first aid kit with you in this case.
I myself don’t like giving animals any medications, because any drugs, even vitamins, can cause side effects.
So you give an animal a sedative, ordinary chamomile - but he has an individual intolerance to chamomile, an allergy appears, then anaphylactic shock begins - and there is a high probability that the animal will not be pumped out. Or his gastritis will simply worsen, for example, which is also problematic.
It is possible that a pet who travels on a train for an hour and a half without a sedative will refuse to eat that day. But this is not very scary, the next day he will eat calmly.
Cat on a car: sign
Although few car owners will be happy with the fact that an animal with fairly sharp claws has climbed onto the car, often the sign calls a cat that has sat on the car a good sign, a kind of blessing on a good journey.
Notice what the beast does.
A cat climbed into a car - a sign of good luck
Increased caution and the ability to sense negative energy flows will never allow a cat to climb into a place that poses danger, even potential or only expected. This means that if a pet gets into the car, then in the near future there is no need to fear that the car will get into an accident or be damaged in some other way.
Sometimes it happens that a cat runs into the car for just a second, and then jumps back out. The sign in this case recommends taking a closer look at your surroundings - a person who is close enough wishes you harm. It is worth taking measures to protect yourself from damage.
Cat on the hood of a car: a sign of news
Pay attention to how the fluffy beauty behaves. If a relaxed cat lies on a car, sleeps, purrs or exposes its face to the rays of the sun, then the news, according to the sign, will be just as joyful and serene. A tense posture and a wary look with which a cat sits on a car, on the contrary, is a sign of receiving alarming news.
A cat nestled under a car: a sign about the weather
Based on the behavior of this pet, our grandmothers predicted changes in the weather. Although there were no cars then, there were carts, sleighs and other vehicles, which were also often favored by representatives of the cat family.
If the animal is trying to find shelter, which can also be a car, then you can expect a quick cold snap and the onset of rainy, windy weather. In winter, you should prepare for a snowstorm, and if the cat has climbed far under the car, then for heavy snowfall.
Rodents, birds and lizards
For small animals such as rats and hamsters, the principle is simple: I don’t see anything - and that’s great. So you just need to cover their carrier with a towel. All that remains is to make sure that rodents do not eat this towel.
It's more difficult with birds.
Mostly, owners try to transport birds in a cage, and this is a mistake, because on the road they hit the bars and often damage the wings. Birds should also be placed in carriers - small, darkened and with holes for air.
If it’s cold, the carrier should be heated, that is, we take an ordinary heating pad, wrap it in a towel and put the box with the bird on it.
Cold-blooded animals must be warmed, best of all - with your own warmth, just sit them on your body: on your knees, neck, stomach. Thermal mats sometimes overheat, and if they turn off on the road, the lizard, snake, or spider will die.
Signs and warnings
Endowed with excellent intuition, cats sense the approach of trouble long before it occurs. Therefore, never ignore the behavior of your pet - in the case of a car, this can save the life of you and your loved ones.
- Signs of a cat crossing the road in front of a car indicate that it is better to refuse a further trip.
- The animal jumps onto your lap when you are already in the car, purrs and rubs against your hands - good luck.
- The cat sits on the road with its back turned to the car - there will be no troubles on the road.
- Sitting facing the car - you can hit the road, but you should change the initially chosen route.
- Meows loudly, walks in circles around the car and expresses concern - to the difficulties that will arise along the way.
There are other travel items that can serve as a warning. So, if a black cat runs across the road, the trip will be unsuccessful. And if your pet got into a bag or suitcase that you were going to put in the trunk before leaving on vacation, then the trip will bring the most pleasant emotions.
How to introduce a pet to the apartment owner
You need to know your pet well. If you know that an animal has behavioral problems, it is better to say so right away and add that you will compensate for all damage, if any. In any case, you can’t lie, especially you can’t say that you don’t have an animal. When the truth is revealed, the situation will not be simple.
If behavioral problems appeared when you just moved, then they need to be addressed immediately. And it’s better, of course, with the help of a specialist, because every day the pattern of behavior will be reinforced. If the animal has only recently begun to behave inappropriately, then, for example, a dog handler will solve this problem in one or two sessions, but he (and you along with him) will have to spend several months on an old problem.
But under no circumstances read forums. Forums are the biggest evil. If you don't have specialized knowledge, you won't be able to distinguish between helpful advice and advice that will only make the problem worse.
On forums, it is only reasonable to read about games with animals: search and food.
How to stabilize an animal in the first days after moving
First, take as many of your pet’s old things as possible into the new apartment: beds, toys, bowls. And try to put them the way they were in your previous apartment, that is, imitate the old environment. At the same time, it is better to keep cats in one of the rooms or only in the kitchen for a couple of days - limit their space for moving.
In case your cat is used to walking outside, but this is not possible in your new apartment, there is a very cool thing - a cat walking net. This is a large box that fits onto the window from the outside; all sorts of twigs, sticks and toys are stuffed into it.
The boxes are quite inexpensive, and driftwood can be found in the nearest forest. And then the cat seems to be walking, but it seems to be at home. If a cat is neutered, he is usually satisfied with this. If not, then you should deprive him of his motivation to go outside - the center of motivation for traveling is mainly under his tail.
With dogs, problems can arise during a walk: there are no familiar smells and familiar paths, no familiar animals - all this is stress. Stress is also caused by aggressive dogs, who can jump up to a new person and start bullying him. But the dogs get used to the apartment very quickly.
Some advise giving animals more attention after moving: petting them more often, taking more walks, etc. They enjoy attention, but they quickly get used to it. If you come to a new place and start walking your dog not twice a day, but three times, then don’t be surprised when she continues to demand to walk her three times.
The cat got into the car: a sign
Natural curiosity, the desire to eat something tasty and hunting instincts force cats to regularly walk around their territory, climbing into any, even the most inaccessible places. Therefore, you should not be surprised if a cat sits on a car. The sign, by the way, says that this means a successful trip - but not always.
The sign of a “cat in a car” depends on which part of it he has chosen.
Roof
You should not go on a long journey in the near future, leave your car unattended for a long time, or exceed the permissible speed limit. The beast warns of possible troubles that may happen on the road.
Hood
On to the news. If the cat sits up tensely, pricks up his ears or twitches his tail in displeasure, the news will not be the most pleasant. If you lie down at full length and serenely doze or watch what is happening around you, then you can count on receiving good news.
Salon
It is believed that the animal can neutralize negative energy, which will benefit the vehicle and its owner. The exception is sick, mangy cats, whose visit to the car may portend difficulties on the road. If the animal has marked the salon, then you should be wary of the machinations of ill-wishers.
