Somehow while I was upstairs today, one of my cats managed to get the door to the basement open, went down in there and got himself stuck in the basement.
Way in the back there is this wall by the heating units (furnaces - it's a big old farmhouse). A small part of the wall, towards the ceiling, is open space, presumably to allow for the passage of vent ducts and the like. It's basically a crawlspace. Kitty is up in there, way in the back (where he can't be reached, of course), and I can't get him to come out of there.
He got himself in there and could get himself back out, but he shows no inclination to do so. I've even put food (wet and dry) up on the ledge to entice him out so that I could (hopefully) grab him.
The main concern is that this crawlspace does have tiny, partially-open spots that lead outside, underneath the house (under the porch area). I can't really see in there (too small for a person to go in it) so I can't tell if they're big enough for a kitty to sneak through. That worries me.
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The other cat giving me fits is my eldest, who's taken to peeing everywhere he can if he thinks it warrants it. He's already left a nasty stain in my room (anybody know how to get dark stains out of old hardwood floors?) and one downstairs, and we've had to throw out some stuff that he's nailed because none of it was even remotely salvagable (nothing too important, but still).
I'm reasonably sure that it isn't a physical problem, because Elder's been eating, drinking and using his litterbox like normal. This appears to be more of a territorial thing, because he and Mama Cat don't like each other and at best he tolerates Baby Cat (who likes to roughhouse with him, which Eldest dislikes - Baby is actually *bigger* than he is now).
Halp?
Way in the back there is this wall by the heating units (furnaces - it's a big old farmhouse). A small part of the wall, towards the ceiling, is open space, presumably to allow for the passage of vent ducts and the like. It's basically a crawlspace. Kitty is up in there, way in the back (where he can't be reached, of course), and I can't get him to come out of there.
He got himself in there and could get himself back out, but he shows no inclination to do so. I've even put food (wet and dry) up on the ledge to entice him out so that I could (hopefully) grab him.
The main concern is that this crawlspace does have tiny, partially-open spots that lead outside, underneath the house (under the porch area). I can't really see in there (too small for a person to go in it) so I can't tell if they're big enough for a kitty to sneak through. That worries me.
--
The other cat giving me fits is my eldest, who's taken to peeing everywhere he can if he thinks it warrants it. He's already left a nasty stain in my room (anybody know how to get dark stains out of old hardwood floors?) and one downstairs, and we've had to throw out some stuff that he's nailed because none of it was even remotely salvagable (nothing too important, but still).
I'm reasonably sure that it isn't a physical problem, because Elder's been eating, drinking and using his litterbox like normal. This appears to be more of a territorial thing, because he and Mama Cat don't like each other and at best he tolerates Baby Cat (who likes to roughhouse with him, which Eldest dislikes - Baby is actually *bigger* than he is now).
Halp?
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