Cocoa
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My boyfriend tells me I am mad but here is an excerpt from my note to my friend who is cat-sitting for me for two weeks.
"THANK YOU SO MUCH for looking after the Mitsi monster while we are away.
Mitsi has been honing her skills at suicide/ escape attempts.
If you open the kitchen window make sure you are in the kitchen otherwise she will sneak up on to the counter and climb over the plant pot and out of the window. I dont usually open it (unless Seb has burnt something cooking).
The living room windows are on ventilate, but if you want to open them open the middle two as far as the string will allow (she cant fit out of the gap) but close them if you go out.
The bedroom windows I normally open the outside window as wide as I want but only open the inside windows to two fingers width (although I think she can push them open!) and I usually dont let her in the bedroom unless we are in there.
Feel free to keep her out of the bedroom if you want. She may scratch at the door though.
If she scratches the carpet or chews the book case there is some naughty spray in the blue bottle in the bedroom which you can spray on to the carpet or whatever to stop her doing it. If she goes under the bed and you want her out just show her the bottle of spray and say out and she should come out (if she calls your bluff spray it and she will shoot out!)
Feel free to tell her off if she gets on the tables. Normally saying Mitsi off works, but she may argue back so keep telling her until she gets off.
She is a bit of a princess and won't use her litter tray if it is dirty...sorry!"
It is a good job my cat-sitter is a good friend!
"THANK YOU SO MUCH for looking after the Mitsi monster while we are away.
Mitsi has been honing her skills at suicide/ escape attempts.
If you open the kitchen window make sure you are in the kitchen otherwise she will sneak up on to the counter and climb over the plant pot and out of the window. I dont usually open it (unless Seb has burnt something cooking).
The living room windows are on ventilate, but if you want to open them open the middle two as far as the string will allow (she cant fit out of the gap) but close them if you go out.
The bedroom windows I normally open the outside window as wide as I want but only open the inside windows to two fingers width (although I think she can push them open!) and I usually dont let her in the bedroom unless we are in there.
Feel free to keep her out of the bedroom if you want. She may scratch at the door though.
If she scratches the carpet or chews the book case there is some naughty spray in the blue bottle in the bedroom which you can spray on to the carpet or whatever to stop her doing it. If she goes under the bed and you want her out just show her the bottle of spray and say out and she should come out (if she calls your bluff spray it and she will shoot out!)
Feel free to tell her off if she gets on the tables. Normally saying Mitsi off works, but she may argue back so keep telling her until she gets off.
She is a bit of a princess and won't use her litter tray if it is dirty...sorry!"
It is a good job my cat-sitter is a good friend!
But he is getting on a bit and I have perfected yelling at him over the years so he knows not to wake me up 