Bethyy

Apr 11 2007, 04:56 PM | Post #1

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Cat Care

Those of you that have completed Gertrude’s Cat are able to own a furry little friend, a kitten.



Options.

Upon right clicking your feline, you will notice three options. Pick-up. Talk-to. Interact-with.

I’m sure we all know what ‘Pick-up’ means, picking up your cat and placing it in your inventory to nap.

As crazy as it sounds, we can ‘Talk-to’ our pets, but all that they will reply us with is a meow or a purr. Typical huh? Well if you believe they are being rude, complete Icthlarin's Little Helper and receive the Catspeak amulet which will allow you to, well, speak with your cat, but don’t get excited, you may not want to hear some of the things it has to say.



And lastly, ‘Interact-with’. Once you click this one you will be presented with three more options. Stroke. Catch Vermin. Shoo Away.

To catch vermin, there must be small rats close by (I suggest Varrock sewer.) select the ‘Catch Vermin’ option and your pet will go after a rat (will not go after giant rats.) Keep in mind that a kitten only has a 15% chance of catching a rat, once grown into a cat 15% will turn into 70% and your cat will catch more rats.

Shooing away your kitten/cat/overgrown cat will get rid of your pet. You will not be able to get this pet back, you will have to buy another.

Quests.

There are many quests which involve cats.

Gertrude’s Cat: This is how you receive your cat.
A Tail of Two Cats: From this quest you will receive a mouse toy. As far as I know this is used for nothing and can only be wielded.
Icthlarin's Little Helper: This quest will give you the Catspeak amulet which allows you to speak with your cat.
Rat Catchers: This quest will allow you to name your cat as well as ‘evolve’ it into a Wiley Cat (Which will turn into a Lazy Cat if you do not take it to catch rats often enough.)
Recipe for Disaster (Evil Dave): Evil Dave’s mini quest will give you a Hell Cat (Kitten/Cat/Overgrown Cat/ Wiley Cat/ Lazy Cat.)


Kitten.

You’re kitten will need attention. Please keep in mind that your kitten will not grow if it is in you bank or inventory. The kitten must be on the floor following you and it will need to be fed on a regular basis as well as played with when lonely (Stroke or a ball of wool will do.)

Your kitten will be picky with what it eats, so pay attention, your kitten should get hungry every 20 – 30 minutes. Your kitten will eat/drink;

Milk.
Raw Salmon.
Raw Shrimp.
Raw Shark.
Raw Anchovies.
Raw and Cooked Tuna.
Raw and Cooked Sardines.
Raw and Cooked Swordfish.
Raw and Cooked Lobsters.
Raw and Cooked Trout.

You could also use a Doogle Leaf on a raw sardine for a nice snack.

To get Doogle Leaves head to Gertrude’s house and go behind the building, five will respawn there or head to the hill east of relleka where the Swaying Tree is for about 12 leaves.

There are a lot of people that think that the more you feed your kitten, the quicker it will grow. This is not true. You only need to feed your kitten when something a long the lines of ‘I think it’s hungry’ comes up on your screen, feeding it at other times is just a waste of food. Your kitten will take a few hours to grow into a cat no matter what you do and then a few more to become overgrown.

If you do not feed your kitten you will be given three warnings before it runs away, you will not be able to get that exact kitten back, you will have to buy another from Gertrude at her house for 100 GP.

If you do not get the colour you want right away, simply ‘shoo’ your pet and buy another until you get the one you want. It cost 100 GP each time still.

Cat.

Once your kitten has grown into a cat, you can receive your reward for taking the time and fish to bring it up, 100 deaths from a civilian in west Ardougne by the underground pass, or you can continue to hunt level 1 rats to get the Cat Training Medal.



To get this medal you will need to have caught 100 rats, to know when you have caught 100 you will need a Catspeak Amulet, speak to your cat and ask how it is. If the cat replies with “I want to go adventuring.” You have got the right amount. If it says “I want to catch some rats.” You still have more to go.

Once you have 100 (You might want you make a tally chart.) head to Gertrude’s house and speak to her, she will give you the shiny new medal.

Note: Wearing this medal <u>does not</u> help your cat grow faster. You also <u>cannot</u> get this medal from chasing rats with a kitten, it has to be a cat.

If you decide to keep your cat, you will also find that you no longer have to feed it, it’s big enough to fend for itself and can catch its own supper.

Allow your cat to continue following you and within 1 – 2 hours it will grow into an overgrown cat.

Overgrown Cat.

Once you have an overgrown cat it becomes useless. It doesn’t need to be fed, it doesn’t need to be played with, and it doesn’t need to chase rats. But you can still trade it in for 100 deaths at west Ardougne.

Facts.

If you take your kitten/cat to Bob (The Jagex cat) they will have a conversation.

If you die with your cat, you cannot get it back.

Your kitten/cat/overgrown cat will teleport to keep up with you when it goes off the mini map. It also climbs ladders, teleports and goes on the gnome glider with you.

Your kitten/cat/overgrown cat cannot go on the mining cart in Kelgadrim, cannot play Pest Control, cannot play Castle Wars, cannot play Trawler, cannot go diving, but fear not, Rat Pits is more than enough to entertain your pet.

Only one pet can follow you at a time.

You can log out with your feline still on the floor, it will be there when you log back in. (Same for going to non-members, if you log out with it on the ground, when you log into non-members you will not be able to see it, but when you go into members again it will be there.)

Lazy cats cannot enter the Rat Pits.

Your pet will not be a yellow dot on the map anymore.

This post has been edited by Bethyy: Apr 12 2007, 03:44 AM

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dark sloth1

Apr 11 2007, 06:47 PM | Post #2

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Go bethyy she's so pro like that. :3 nice guide

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Baakalor

Apr 11 2007, 11:49 PM | Post #3

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Nice guide. Isn't the first pic one of cats not kittens?

Where did you get the percentages from?

Overall, very nicely done.

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Cafebcs

Apr 12 2007, 12:16 AM | Post #4

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Add fremenick isles quest (the cat of the king), the sorceror's garden cat, the grand brain robbery (the wooden cats) and that you can use ring of charos for select the color of the cat (instead random)

The cat's exist since classic and they wasn't animated.
If you dropped them you needed to get again from Gertrude.

This post has been edited by Cafebcs: Apr 12 2007, 12:21 AM

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Dark Angel

Apr 12 2007, 12:47 AM | Post #5

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Very nice guide I didnt know this much info on cat care =P

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Cafebcs

Apr 12 2007, 01:05 AM | Post #6

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Try talk to a lazy cat of someone wearing your ammy of catspeak and having on floor your cat...

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Bethyy

Apr 12 2007, 02:00 AM | Post #7

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I asked a friend of mine if they knew anything about the rat catching bit, she told me the percentages and I trusted her. *shrug*

Also I couldn't be bother to sit around for days growing cats, haha.

Cafebcs, I will add those bits later, I've been up to my eyeballs in coursework recently.

This post has been edited by Bethyy: Apr 12 2007, 02:01 AM

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Loggy

Apr 15 2007, 02:03 AM | Post #8

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I like this guide and it's pretty nice; I'll add it in when I roll back around.

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PieCakes

Apr 15 2007, 05:17 PM | Post #9

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nice guide

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EliwoodEXE

Apr 16 2007, 02:17 AM | Post #10

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Nice guide Bethyy.

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