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[Blizzardclaw233]

aww that's sad that she lost her eye but she is cute

[nightbeat]

she doesn't seem to mind it! she's settled in incredibly well with my dogs, and can get around easily even with one eye. we were worried she'd be affected by it, but it's just like she has two! she can easily jump from place to place despite her depth perception being messed up

[Blizzardclaw233]

that's nice I have a cat to his name is oliver

[woospuss]

One of my cats, Archie, has recently gotten into the habit of drinking out of the toilet.... He has a water bowl which is filled every morning and he uses it often, but still he insists on getting into the loo and having a drink... He is the one cat i don't particularly like licking my hands... and I never use to touch is paws when he was younger as he use to play with his poop... He would get it out of the litter tray and chase it on the tiles around the house... thankfully he has stopped that now!

[PeachFuzz]

One of my cats, Archie, has recently gotten into the habit of drinking out of the toilet.... He has a water bowl which is filled every morning and he uses it often, but still he insists on getting into the loo and having a drink... He is the one cat i don't particularly like licking my hands... and I never use to touch is paws when he was younger as he use to play with his poop... He would get it out of the litter tray and chase it on the tiles around the house... thankfully he has stopped that now!

Do you close the lid on the toilet?

[orpheus.]

One of my cats, Archie, has recently gotten into the habit of drinking out of the toilet.... He has a water bowl which is filled every morning and he uses it often, but still he insists on getting into the loo and having a drink... He is the one cat i don't particularly like licking my hands... and I never use to touch is paws when he was younger as he use to play with his poop... He would get it out of the litter tray and chase it on the tiles around the house... thankfully he has stopped that now!

Close the bathroom door?
Put the lid down?

[A.Contradictory.Sort]

One of my cats, Archie, has recently gotten into the habit of drinking out of the toilet.... He has a water bowl which is filled every morning and he uses it often, but still he insists on getting into the loo and having a drink... He is the one cat i don't particularly like licking my hands... and I never use to touch is paws when he was younger as he use to play with his poop... He would get it out of the litter tray and chase it on the tiles around the house... thankfully he has stopped that now!

Close the bathroom door?
Put the lid down?

in addition to that pretty good point if you dont have a toilet lid and/or cant close your bathroom door (i keep my bathroom door open cus they have a litter box in there) try getting him another bowl. cats like options. i have this waterfall purified thing that my cats lloovveee but they also like being able to drink out of the bowl i have set out for them. so thats another option :)

[Transkitty]

One of my cats, Archie, has recently gotten into the habit of drinking out of the toilet.... He has a water bowl which is filled every morning and he uses it often, but still he insists on getting into the loo and having a drink... He is the one cat i don't particularly like licking my hands... and I never use to touch is paws when he was younger as he use to play with his poop... He would get it out of the litter tray and chase it on the tiles around the house... thankfully he has stopped that now!

Animals will often drink from the toilet because it is cooler than the water in their bowl. Try pouring out his bowl and refilling it with cool water periodically throughout the day. I second what Zero said as well. Try getting different types of bowls as well.

[.Middy.]

So I don't post here often, but I'm hoping for some advice. It looks like we will be moving in the near future. My parents have already said there will be no animals in the house.

So my cats are going to have to live outside in a shed with the dogs, rats and tiny chickens. It will have heat and AC of course. (It might be something different, we haven't even looked at any properties yet. They may have a stall in a barn or something, I just know they won't be inside the house. They will have heating and AC though no matter what)

I was thinking maybe I should build them a outdoor cat play area since they won't be able to live indoors like they are use to. It would be seperate from the night time area. (Night time would be the shed or stall or whatever)

How big should it be for 2 cats? Anything specific that would need to be in there to make them comfortable? They are currently petrified of being outside, so that would take some getting use to of course. I just want them to have a nice area where they can spend their days in comfort while still being safe. (They are both front declawed so they will not be allowed to roam the property)

Best case scenario is that my grandma (who would be living in a seperate house on the property) allows me to have both cats stay in her house, and I just go and take care of them. (The other animals would still be in the shed/stall/whatever but Atleast the cats would be in a real house ya know?)


So any advice or suggestions for a outdoor run area for my two?

Some old old pictures of my two monsters! These are from right after we got them 3-4 years ago!

[.Middy.]

That was the plan, definitely want it to be escape proof and predator proof!

Any ideas how big it should be? Or some items that would make it more comfy? Should I put their cat tree out in the pen? Or in the stall/building? I feel like I'm missing something in my ideas for this....

And thank you! Jezebel is a total sweet heart (black/white) and Ivan (aka FatCat) is a terror but he is very cuddly when he's behaving!