Wily cat

A Wily cat is a cat that players can obtain after completing the Rat Catchers quest. They can talk to Felkrash in the Rat Pits in Port Sarim to turn their overgrown cat into a Wily cat. Players can also name their wily cat by talking to Felkrash.

A wily cat has heightened abilities, but also requires more exercise than normal (or it will turn into a lazy cat). They can catch prey more often, and gain the ability to hunt butterflies and Kalphite larvae.

The more rats your wily cat has killed the more chance of survival he/she will have in the rat pits

While your Wily cat is out you may talk to other Wily cats (if you have your Catspeak Amulet equipped). While talking to other peoples' cats you may get hints about whose cat is stronger. The stronger cat will claim to be better, but make sure you don't agree with it! If you have your wily cat out near a stray dog the cat will fight the dog.

If a wily cat catches seven rats in Evil Dave's basement, it will turn into a wily hellcat.

A player can only have one wily cat at a time.

Cat Dialogue


If the cat has not received enough attention or exercise:

Player: How are you doing? Cat: Why does it want to know?

What follows will be your cat's complaint. Listen to it carefully. To fix the situation, you generally need to stroke your cat a lot, and also have it chase/catch things. Talk to it periodically, and be persistent with your petting and hunting. Once you restore your cat's affection:

Player: How are you doing? Cat: Purr, I'm happy. (Player name) is good to me. Don't start neglecting me now that I've told you that, though. Player: Don't worry, I won't.

Sometimes there are visual bugs in the dialogue: