QUEST 49 · MEMBERS
Gertrude's Cat
Gertrude has lost her cat Fluffs and desperately wants to find her. Can you help bring her home?

- Difficulty
- Novice
- Length
- Very Short
- Quest points
- 1
- Released
- 28 July 2003
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Before you start
Talk to Gertrude in her house just west of Varrock.
Items required
- Bucket of milk
- 100 coins
- Seasoned sardine (Bought from the Grand Exchange) or alternatively:
- Raw sardine (can be bought from Gerrant's Fishy Business.)
- Doogle leaves (obtainable during the quest)
Recommended
- Ring of Charos(a) (to choose the colour of your kitten)
- Axe and 100 coins to cut down a dying tree in the Lumber Yard and create a normal plank for two easy Varrock Diary tasks.
- Fast travel to several locations
- Cooks' Guild in Varrock (2 trips) - Skills necklace or Varrock Teleport or Ring of wealth to Grand Exchange or Chronicle
- Lumberyard east of Varrock (1 trip) - Lumberyard Teleport or Ring of the elements
Enemies to defeat
STEP BY STEP
Walkthrough
Follow the chapters below. Click any screenshot or diagram to view it at full size.
Starting out
Speak to Gertrude at her house west of Varrock, south of the Cooks' Guild. She has lost her cat, Fluffs, and she wants you to look for her. Her two children were the last to see her. If you don't already have a seasoned sardine, pick up some doogle leaves to the south.
Head to the Varrock Square and talk to Wilough or Shilop. They will tell you about their secret playground, which is the last place they remember seeing Fluffs. Pay them 100 coins to tell you the location, which is the Lumber Yard found north-east of Varrock.
![Fluffs, located on the 1st floor[UK]2nd floor[US] in the Lumberyard.](/osrs/media/walkthroughs/gertrude-s-cat-fluffs-cc8cb758cc.webp)
The secret playground (Lumber Yard)
Items recommended: Lumberyard teleport. An axe to complete an easy Varrock Diary task.
At the Lumber Yard, climb-over the broken fence on the southern side to enter, then climb up the ladder in the centre of the area. There you will find Gertrude's cat, Fluffs. Try to pick-up the cat and she will hiss at you, then use a bucket of milk on her and try to pick her up again. She will still hiss. Use the doogle leaves on the raw sardine to make a seasoned sardine and use it on her. Try to pick her up again and she will be afraid to leave; in the distance you can hear kittens mewing...



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Go down the ladder and search through the nearby crates with the yellow "Mew!" above them. Despite the mews moving around, the location of the kitten remains the same, so keep searching different crates until you find Fluffs' kitten. Click on continue and the kitten appears in your inventory. Do not drop the kitten or it will run away and you will have to find it again.
- Note: If the kitten didn't appear in your inventory, log out and back in.
Go back up the ladder and use the kitten on Fluffs, and they will both return home.
Return to Gertrude to complete the quest. Wear a Ring of Charos(a) if you want to choose the colour of your kitten reward.
Congratulations, quest complete!
Quick checklist 10 instructions
Use this when you already know the route. The full walkthrough above includes explanations and diagrams.
Walkthrough
Pick up doogle leaves from behind Gertrude's house and use them on your raw sardine to make seasoned sardine.
Go to Varrock Square's newsstand and talk to either Shilop or Wilough, you need 100 coins.
Say: What will make you tell me? → Okay then, I'll pay.
Go to the Lumber Yard north-east of Varrock and climb-over the broken fence.
Chop down a dying tree to complete an easy Varrock Diary task.
Go up the ladder in the middle of the Lumber Yard.
Use a bucket of milk and a Seasoned sardine on Gertrude's cat then go back down the ladder.
Search the crates with a yellow "Search crate" option and a yellow "Mew!" above them until you find Fluffs' kitten. (Searching the same crate repeatedly will not work.)
Go back up the ladder and use Fluffs' kitten on Gertrude's cat.
Return to Gertrude.
Congratulations, quest complete!
QUEST COMPLETE
Rewards
- 1,525 Cooking Cooking experience
- Your own kitten
- Chocolate cake
- Stew
- Gertrude will now sell kittens for you to raise for 100 coins coins each.
OSRS WIKI CONTRIBUTORS
Sources & credits
Walkthrough text and preparation lists are adapted from Old School RuneScape Wiki contributors under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Game imagery © Jagex Ltd; individual image sources are linked in their captions. This page is fan-made and not affiliated with Jagex.
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