Cómo GATIFICAR un espacio pequeño en casa 🏠🐈| Gatos en pisos o apartamentos pequeños

If you have limited space at home and want to live with a cat, don't worry because it's not incompatible. Now I'll tell you how.

Hello, I'm Carlos, a clinical veterinarian specializing in small animals. Welcome to the Happy Pets and Families Channel. Oh, living with a cat. That risky sport.

If you do any work at home, your cat gets stressed. If someone comes to visit you at home, your cat gets stressed. If you do nothing at all, be careful because your cat can get stressed. That's why many of you are concerned about the size of your home and whether your cat is completely happy in it. Or maybe you currently live in a tiny apartment and are wondering whether or not adopting a cat is a good option. This video can also be useful if you decide to share an apartment with other people and live with a cat. Although in these cases, I always recommend that you first talk to your flatmates, see if they will tolerate the cat, and that as far as possible, the cat is free to come and go from your room. But hey, we understand that when you share a flat, you also have a bit more space. And that's why this video is also for you. This is a topic that worries some of you, and in fact, you have asked me questions about how big your house should be. In fact, a subscriber wrote to me from Japan telling me that she lived in one of those Japanese mini flats and that she didn't know if she could bring a cat or if it was a good idea to bring a cat to live there with her. The kind of Japanese people we all know, right? Well, the kind they depict in movies. If they sleep in little houses, we've seen them all over the world. That's why I started looking for some information and I realized that there were many articles out there on the Internet that said a cat needs 6 square kilometers to live because the cat has to roam and has to do. I don't know what. Of course, they are referring to feral cats. Cats that live outside of houses and that evidently have a much larger territorial area, approximately up to two or three blocks or squares. So to have a cat, you need to live in Buckingham palace, have a huge garden next to your house, right? Surely you know people who live with cats in small apartments, and they are perfectly happy cats. They have full lives and lack absolutely nothing. In short, cats are happy with very little space. If a cat's favorite pastime is to get inside a tiny box until it practically overflows to the sides, how is a cat going to need 6 square kilometers to live inside your house. Well, the fact that it overflows on the sides is very funny because sometimes you see them with only the tips of their paws stuck in because the cat doesn't fit. Obviously, for a cat to have a full life, you can't just have them living inside a box. Logically. But much more important than size is how you organize their space, because cats are a bit picky about that. Here are six tips to make your cat happy with you, even if you live in a tiny house. The first one is. What was the first one? Oh, okay. Your house has to have at least two bedrooms and I'm not talking about having everything in one room and a tiny bathroom where you can't even turn around. At least one bedroom and the rest of the house separate. Or the bathroom has to be very large and also have a window and be a useful area for your cat so that he can run around, hide, walk around and do cat things. And if you have a love type house without bedrooms, well, that's also what the second tip is for. If you don't have the space or money to live in a 200m2 super loft, you can compartmentalize what you have a bit. You can put in these boxes so that cats have their own hiding place which are like this with a round cat hole and are usually lined with a warm fabric for them. Or you can also leave the closets open so that your cat can roam around the entire house and have different areas so that if he gets stressed out and bored of you for a while, he can lose sight of you. Look. For example, a friend of the channel, Paula Garcia, lives in a flat that is not very big. And it is true that she already has three cats, but she has an area where the cats can hide perfectly and can be at their leisure for a while without being in front of us. This is her large feline family. They are Ari, Lemmy and Ilya. And the truth is that they seem to get along very well. Paula. The truth is that she is very creative and has created a whole playroom for the cats. As you can see, it doesn't need much space. And I say she is very creative because in addition to providing these solutions for the cats, she is a designer and has a super cool Instagram. I'll leave it below so you can stop by and take a look. By the way, Paula, thank you very much for letting us show you your house here in the video. Third tip. If you live in a small house, you will already know how important it is to have Everything tidy with the cat's things. You will also have to visualize the space beforehand if you are going to adopt a cat, so you know where you are going to put each of their things. That way everything will be completely organized in your cat's head. Because if you have everything together, your cat will not like it very much. For example, put the litter box in the bathroom and that way you will have it separate from the rest of the house. Always make sure that the bathroom door is open. Of course, put the feeders in the kitchen and their rest area can be the rest of the house. In Paula's case, she has created a corner just for their toys and games as a relaxation and rest area.

But if you have very little space and you are going to put everything together well, you will have a bathroom. I mean, you can put the litter box in your bathroom, but maybe you have a small bathroom. Well, you have to know that your cat also has needs.

I mean, if you have more or less a little corner where you have everything for the cat, right? You can put the litter box separate from the food bowl. You should always have it separate from the food bowl. My mother doesn't do it. My mother doesn't do it. And many people have it in the kitchen too. But in theory, the food bowl and the litter box have to be separate because cats don't like to eat where they do their business. If you do have them together, you will always have to make sure that you have a covered litter box so that at least it is physically separated from the food area and so on. And also in a small apartment, a covered litter box will help to keep their litter from smelling as much. Tip 4 and before I ask you to be a little creative by compartmentalizing the areas and giving them separate resting areas from the rest of the house. But you can also take advantage of the space and height. After all, you're not going to use it. You're always going to have your feet glued to the floor. But cats love it. They love having a high place to see all their domain and say, this is mine as far as the eye can see. It's the guys quote, especially if you have a young cat. Sometimes older cats don't adapt well to heights because their joints hurt a little bit so they don't want to climb. But for a young cat, it's an excellent idea to put shelves at the top of the wall, like bookshelves, at different heights so that the cat can even walk around the perimeter of the room, but almost right up against the ceiling. You can also put up vertical scratching posts like trees, because they make much better use of the space. For example, in Paula's case, she also has a tree type scratching post with different platforms so that the cats can go up, down and climb and at least have something to do.

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Joseph, but don't spoil it for me. That's coming up soon. Cats love looking out the windows, watching people come and go, and seeing if a bird lands on the window sill. That's why it's a great option if you live in a small apartment to buy them one of those typical hammocks that attach to the window. They're very easy to assemble because they don't require any construction work. But I do have to ask that they be good quality and not unstable because cats don't like that at all. Also, if you scratch your pocket a little, the fabric will be a little better. And when your cat sits on it, it won't tear it. Many cats can spend hours and hours looking out the window when you're not home or even when you're home. And they can also use it as a resting area where they get some sun, so they don't need to go outside or have 6 square kilometers of garden nearby. Okay, here's a side note. Be careful with direct sunlight at certain times of the year and always have a mosquito net or something on the window. Jay learns very quickly to prevent your cat from suffering from parachute cat syndrome later on. And the sixth piece of advice, be patient and tolerant. You're going to share your living space with your cat, and he owns the space just as much as you do, so don't be bothered when at 10 at night, your cat decides to get active and run around all over the apartment. Yes, I know he's tiny. Yes, I know you're going to be watching him almost the whole time because he's right in front of you. But don't get mad. Cats do that naturally. Anyone who has ever lived with a cat knows this, and that's part of its charm. Plus, when you share such a small space with your cat, you have to give it a lot more play to get it moving and more active. Paula has set up a cat park in a very small space, and she probably wouldn't even use that space for anything else. She's put in toys that really stimulate them, like that hanging pompom. You've seen that with a pole securely attached to the wall or the window in this case, you can make it yourself. And cats have all kinds of distractions there to move around a bit and get some exercise, and that's it. Did you see how easy it is? Cats generally don't need a lot of space to be happy with a few little things, a few silly things, a little inspiration. But like I hope Paula has been for you, you can make them a kitty paradise, even if you only have a few square meters. And the icing on the cake is that you pamper your cat, as we always do with cats, and that from time to time you give it its favorite can of food, that you have it on top of you and that you pet it well. Things that cats like. Well, let's go. Today's short video is because people are hungover. It's true. How are the holidays? Are you already stuffed with food? Me too, I always do. And that's it for today's video. 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And before continuing, we have a secondary channel, just to say it quickly. Oh, that's right. We have a secondary channel called Questions and Answers from a Veterinarian, where we answer many of your questions, small questions that we answer in a minute and a half or two minutes of video. And that's it. Promo's over. Come on over and subscribe. Okay, let's meet AI Mari here, introduced by Luisa Vasquez. She says that she's her joy, that she gives her lots of company, and that she puts up with all her bad times and makes her endure them. How pretty. She also has eyes like my kitty. Luna, who also had a slightly distracted look. Come on, look, I know these guys. They're Pompon and Glueblue, who are a Malia and Angel's cat family, who are very good followers of the channel and are practically friends now. And they've also participated in other videos on our channel, Pumon and Glue Gloo. Well, they're here dressed up for Christmas because they arrived a little late to the video we made special about Christmas cats on the secondary channel. And that's why we wanted to show them dressed up for Christmas. In this part of the video, she told me that they arrived a little late because she was busy making costumes so they would look good in the video. How cute. Claudia thanks us for accepting her into the group and tells us that she loves our YouTube channel and introduces us to her cat, Gadar, who is a very handsome black kitten. You know that I have a soft spot for black cats. I love them. And there are many times when they are very misunderstood and people don't adopt them because we are a bit superstitious, that they don't bring bad luck. They are also very good and will brighten every day of your life, just as Godard brightens every day of Claudia's life. And I have already done all the possible promos, so all that remains is to say goodbye until next week. Hey, it will be after the end of the year, right? I think the next video is on the first day. But since we are recording this at who knows when, this is like the Christmas programs that are recorded in August. It's true.

Really? No, but I couldn't be in Seville in August with this coat. Hey, these photos are completely for Christmas greetings. I think you have to use these to make this year's greetings. We are supposedly on day 26, meaning it has already happened. And there is a promontory for you. You didn't know that word? Promontory. Look, that is a promontory. I learned that in anatomy. Oh, I should have said here and given an example of. Well, I'll put it at the end. And that's it. It's just that now I'm shocked, Shocked. Shocked. How nice. I told you before, a promontory. Now there's nothing. Well, okay. It was just an aside. Well, if you have a house with no rooms, it must be very big. You must be rich. The veterinarian with the most authority says so.