How to Have a Happy Indoor Cat

You've decided to keep your cat indoors all her life for her safety or because you live in an apartment and have to. Either way, you may feel pangs of guilt about your friend's happiness and comfort. However, cats can be just fine living inside. Here's how to enrich his indoor life.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Climbing and resting perches
• Litter box
• Windows with screens
• Toys: bags, boxes, balls, catnip-stuffed mice, fishing poles, feathers

1. Place perches where your cat can look out the window. Preferably, place each perch next to a window with screens. It is amazing how much pleasure they get just sitting for hours, smelling scents from outside and listening to sounds.

2. Keep your cat's litter box pristinely clean. Little things like a clean box really make her day.

3. Spread an array of toys around the living room. Place some on or near the perch. Suspend them from tables. Play a game of hiding toys and also edible goodies for your cat. Watch her go bananas when she finds the hidden treasures.

Tips & Warnings

• Get your cat microchipped, so you can track him if he does get out.
• Get your friend spayed or neutered as well, just in case she manages to get out and carouse.