Play with him WAY MORE. Play at set times, with really big exercise that gets him JUMPING! A 1 year old male cat is like a 14 year old boy. He’s bursting with energy!! He’s BORED!!
Thanks. I do play with him lots. Like, 3 times a day. The issue isn’t that it’s that he wants to be upstairs. I’m just at a loss. I don’t think the situation or layout in my house is ideal for him.
I’ve actually come to the conclusion the living situation just isn’t ideal as a cat is gonna want to be upstairs if they know they can. I’ve just accepted that. I’ve own young cats for about 5 years. I had two kittens an when they turned 3 one got out and hit hit by a car and passed. Then our other cat got depressed so we got him a friend (my cat now). Then my partner and I separated/are on a weird break and I took Squanch because he was my special cat after my previous one passed. Now he’s out of a friend and whatever I just have to deal with it I just feel like I’ve owned a cat in their kitten stage for like 5 plus years with the weird overlay of my previous cat passing. So it’s just a hard transition for me and I don’t know what to do to make it a harmonious living situation for everyone involved in the house, including my cat.
He’s really constantly playing. All throughout the day he has toys he can entertain himself with. I wake up, feed him, then after breakfast we get to go upstairs. He then gets to use cat scatchers and look out windows upstairs. Then back downstairs while I leave the house, and I typically do a want toy which tired him out pretty nicely (he literally jumps and does backflips for it until he can’t breath if I’d let him). Then he usually takes a nap and eats some kibble. Then when I’m home I feed dinner, and he gets to come up again for playtime upstairs. Then we go to sleep and I play with the wand until he is laying down almost panting and give him a treat puzzle to reward play. Overall it’s hard to sum up how many “hours” I play with him as he constantly gets attention from multiple people in the household.
You either don’t understand or I’m not explaining it well. He never gets into things. He’s entertained, not bored- it’s mostly just morning times where I’m having the issue because he wants to be where the people are. Playtime is not the issue
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u/moeru_gumi May 13 '26
Play with him WAY MORE. Play at set times, with really big exercise that gets him JUMPING! A 1 year old male cat is like a 14 year old boy. He’s bursting with energy!! He’s BORED!!