Cat (race)

About The Cats
Upon completion of Gertrude's Cat you are able to purchase a Kitten from Gertrude for 100 coins. You can raise your kitten into a cat by feeding it raw fishes or cooked fishes (raw sardines rubbed with doogle leaves cannot be fed to your kitty). Cats may also be turned into Hellcats after killing 7 Rats down in Evil Dave's training area.

The Training Medal
You will notice that there are tons of little level 1 Rats all over the ground, just right click on the cat and click Chase vermin. The Cat will try for the Rat and hopefully catch it. Instead of a 15% chance of success as a Kitten, there is now a 70% chance that your Cat will succeed. Once you catch 100 Rats, talk to Gertrude to get a Cat training medal. (Note that you might want to get a piece of paper out to write down every Rat your Cat catches.)


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Many players believe that wearing this makes your Cat/Kitten grow faster, but this is not true. To find out when your cat has caught 100 Rats, you need to have a Catspeak amulet and ask how he/she is. If your Cat says that he wants to go adventuring instead of saying that he/she wants to chase Rats, your cat has caught 100 Rats. You also inform the cat how many rats they have gotten when your cat catches 10, 50, and 100 rats. This doesn't work with a Kitten; it has to be a Cat. It seems you cannot attempt to get this medal using a Wily or Lazy cat.


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Amulet Of Catspeak
The Amulet of Catspeak is a reward given to you upon completion of Icthlarin's Little Helper which allows you to speak to your cat, other players' cats and Bob the Jagex Cat. The Amulet gets a compass-like upgrade in A Tail of Two Cats which allows you to track Bob the Jagex Cat's whereabouts during the quest.

Overgrown Cats
After time, your cat will grow into a Overgrown cat. These cats no longer need your attention, and will no longer hunt Rats. You can get another Kitten from Gertrude while having an Overgrown cat but remember you can only have one out at a time. Cats are stackable if they are the same color. If you decide to sell it, you can go to West Ardougne at the North West corner and talk to any civilian who will say he needs a cat but can only pay with death runes. If you hand him over your Overgrown cat, he will hand you over 100 Death runes, or you can keep it and have the pride of having a fully grown cat.

Things To Remember

 * Your cat can climb ladders, go on gnome gliders, and teleport with you.
 * You do not need to feed your kitten until you get the message: "I think it's hungry!". Feeding it at any other time than when you get this message is a waste of food. If you don't see this message, another message will show within a few minutes: "I think it's really hungry!". If you don't feed it now, the kitten will run away with this message: "Your cat has run off to look for food."
 * When you die, you can get another cat by buying one for 100 coins from Gertrude.
 * There is no way you can recover your pet if you die.
 * You can bring an adult cat to West Ardougne and sell it for 100 death runes to a Civilian.
 * Do not worry if your cat gets caught behind a fence, tree, etc. as it will reappear next to you as soon as it goes off the minimap.
 * Your kitten can die if you don't feed it.
 * Your kitten should get hungry about every 25 minutes.
 * It is often handy to have your kitten out wherever you go, particularly when doing quests with a lot of walking involved. It is a good idea to have about 2 trout (or any other fish they eat) in your inventory whenever you are out with your kitten, as you never know when it will get hungry.
 * You only need to feed your kitten one type of food, you do not need to feed them a variety of different foods.
 * If your cat is on the ground when you log out, it will still be there when you log back in.
 * Only one cat/kitten can follow you at a time.
 * If you bring your Kitten/Cat to Bob, the Jagex cat, while wearing your amulet, they will have some strange conversation.
 * If cats are picked up or put in banks they do not get hungry.
 * Cats can chase the kalphite larva found in and around the lair.
 * Kittens and cats can drink buckets of milk and play with mouse toys and balls of wool.
 * Players who have completed Rat Catchers can take their cats to the Rat Pits in Ardougne, Varrock, Keldagrim, and Port Sarim, although certain types of cats must be taken to certain pits. Once there, they can bet on their cat as it attempts to catch rats faster than other players' cats.

Minigames That Have Banned Cats

 * Castle Wars
 * Sorceress's Garden
 * Barbarian Assault
 * Pest Control

Notable Cats In RuneScape

 * Bob the Jagex Cat
 * Evil Bob
 * Neite
 * Sphinx

Quests Involving Cats

 * Gertrude's Cat
 * A Tail of Two Cats
 * Rat Catchers
 * Icthlarin's Little Helper
 * Recipe For Disaster