Thread: A whole raft of questions from a prospective owner (slave?).

hi Alec - welcome to the forum - cats are quite happy to just stay indoors so you don't have to have the run ready immediately.
I have never heard of a cat chewing any timber - that's more a dog thing. But MCs have the peculiarity of being quite individual, so you never know. I say try it, if it doesn't work out then you can change your plans later on.
I too have heard bad reviews of the self cleaning litters, but I have no experience myself so couldn't say for sure - and getting them to work with the "Litter-Quitter" although very rewarding, is a game of patience (well done Donna!) - the idea is that they would learn to use the toilets, instead of their litter... MCs are clever as cats go, but they're still cats and as such they like to do what they like to do, so training them is still rather time consuming... but not impossible... and if you have experience with dogs you might want to try...
I hope you manage to convince your better half, and enjoy your bundle of fur very soon !