Requirements
- Completion of the following quests:
- Icthlarin's Little Helper
- Gertrude's Cat
QUEST 87 · MEMBERS
A Tail of Two Cats
Missing: small black cat, answers to the name of Bob. Last seen on the 19th of Bennath. Please contact Unferth in Burthorpe.
- Difficulty
- Intermediate
- Length
- Medium
- Quest points
- 2
- Released
- 26 September 2005
Talk to Unferth at his house in Burthorpe.
BEFORE YOU LEAVE THE BANK
Preparation
Requirements are gates. Recommendations are comfort and risk controls, not mandatory levels unless the game enforces them.
Items required
- Cat or kitten (hellcats work. Be sure to bring fish for your kitten if you're using one.)
- Catspeak amulet
- 5 death runes
- Chocolate cake (made with cake and chocolate bar or chocolate dust with 50 Cooking)
- Logs (other common types of logs such as willow, maple etc. will work too)
- Tinderbox
- Bucket of milk (or one use of the bottomless milk bucket)
- Shears
- 4 potato seeds
- Rake
- Seed dibber (or partial completion of the Farming portion of Barbarian Training)
- Vial of water
- Desert shirt (obtainable during quest) or druid's robe top (the desert outfit does not work)
- Desert robe (obtainable during quest) or druid's robe (the desert outfit does not work)
Recommended
- Fast travel to Burthorpe (games necklace or Burthorpe Games Room minigame teleport)
- Fast travel to Varrock (Varrock teleport)
- Fast travel to Sophanem (magic carpets, Nardah teleport, or pharaoh's sceptre) or fairy ring AKP and run north (fairy ring requires partial completion of Beneath Cursed Sands and 62 Agility.)
- Ring of Charos(a) for discounted magic carpet rides or hard Desert Diary completed
- Waterskin (one is enough) or a circlet of water
- Stamina potion or full graceful outfit
Enemies to defeat
None listed.
ACTION CHECKLIST
Walkthrough
Nested rows are alternatives, dialogue selections, or substeps under the action above them. Recheck the pinned source after a game update.
Starting the quest
- 01
Talk to Unferth in his house in northern Burthorpe with the catspeak amulet equipped and your cat with you. Dialogue: I'll help you.
- 02
Speak to Hild in the building north-east of Unferth's house.
- 03
Hild requires 5 death runes to enchant the catspeak amulet.
Cat hunt
- 01
Locate Bob the cat. The fastest way is to world hop at the Catherby archery shop, as he commonly gets stuck there. Alternatively, follow the steps to use the catspeak amulet to locate him:
- ↳
Right click on the 'Locate' option on the amulet in your equipped items.
- ↳
Click on the whiskers until the arrow and the eyes glow white.
- ↳
Follow the arrow until you find Bob.
Strong lineage
- 01
Talk to Gertrude in her house west of Varrock. Dialogue: Ask about Bob's parents.
- 02
Speak to Reldo in the Varrock Palace library. Dialogue: Ask about Robert the Strong.
- 03
Find and speak to Bob the cat again.
- ↳
Bob may be in the same location you previously found him, so check there first.
Memories and Bob's list
- 01
Go to Sophanem and speak to the Sphinx Dialogue: Ask the Sphinx for help for Bob.
- 02
Return to Unferth's house in Burthorpe and do the following:
- ↳
Use your rake on the patch and plant potato seeds in it and wait until they are grown. Your cat will notify you when they are done (the patch will take 15–35 minutes to grow).
- ↳
Make the bed.
- ↳
Use the logs on the fireplace. Then light the fireplace.
- ↳
Use the chocolate cake and bucket of milk on the southern table.
- ↳
Use your shears on Unferth to cut his hair. You will continue this animation until he becomes bald.
- 03
Talk to Unferth once all the chores are done.
Down with the "sickness"
- 01
Travel to Varrock and speak with the Apothecary. Dialogue: Talk about A Tail of Two Cats.
- 02
Go to Unferth, unequip any weapons and equip the doctor's hat or nurse hat and desert clothing (top and bottom, make sure the clothing is white) and speak to him with a vial of water in your inventory.
- 03
Locate Bob the cat again and talk to him. (Note that left clicking on Bob or Neite will interrupt the cutscene, putting you in Burthorpe but requiring you to find Bob and start it again).
- 04
After the cutscene, talk to Unferth again.
QUEST COMPLETE
Rewards
- A Doctor's hat or Nurse hat (you can switch by destroying your hat and requesting a new one from the Apothecary)
- A present containing:
- Two antique lamps worth 2,500 experience each in skills of your choice over 30
- A Mouse toy (can be used to play with your cat, and functions as a fun weapon at the Emir's Arena)
- Completing this quest awards the player with 5 Kudos which can be claimed by talking to Historian Minas in the Varrock Museum.
REVISION-PINNED EVIDENCE
Verify the guide after updates.
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- A Tail of Two Cats ↗full guide · revision 15315440
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