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| Released | 29 March 2004 (Update) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Members | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||
| Quest item | No | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Tradeable | No | ||||||||||||||||||
| Equipable | No | ||||||||||||||||||
| Stackable | No | ||||||||||||||||||
| Options | Drop | ||||||||||||||||||
| Examine | This cat is so well fed it can hardly move. | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Value | 1 coin | ||||||||||||||||||
| Alchemy | Not alchemisable | ||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 2.5 kg | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Item ID | 1567 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Link | MOID | ||||||||||||||||||
Overgrown cats are pet cats that the player has continued to grow after becoming an adult cat. After 5-6 hours of following the player, a regular adult cat will become an overgrown cat, and will lose its ability to catch vermin (though it can still fight Hell-Rat Behemoths). Overgrown cats may be spoken to with a catspeak amulet, or without it after partial completion of Dragon Slayer II.
Players can sell their regular, overgrown, wily and lazy cats to civilians in West Ardougne in the south-western area of the city for 100 death runes (18,800). This increases to 200 death runes (37,600) with the easy Ardougne achievement diary reward. Use the pet cat on the civilian in order to make the trade. Hellcats do not need to be transformed back to normal cats before being traded in.
There is no limit to how many overgrown cats can be owned. After the completion of the Ratcatchers quest, players can speak to Felkrash to have her train their overgrown cat into a wily cat.
Training
After completion of Ratcatchers quest, an overgrown cat (or its hell version) can be trained into a wily cat by talking to Felkrash. When the wily cat eventually reverts to a lazy cat, it can be re-trained into a wily cat by repeatedly catching rats (both normal and hell-rat versions). If, whilst attempting to train your lazy normal/hellcat into a wily cat, the cat does not seem to transform (it should take about 25 rats), players can pick up their cat and re-drop it to reset the 'training timer', otherwise you could be training your cat for what seems an indefinite time (even hundreds of rats and 1.5hrs+ have been observed without success).
It is not possible to re-train a lazy cat into a wily cat using a ball of wool to play with them or by stroking it, only by chasing rats.[1] Likewise, having your cat chase a mouse toy will not transform it back into a wily cat.[2] It is not possible for lazy or wily cats to revert back to an overgrown cat. If an overgrown cat is trained, the only way to get another overgrown cat is to raise one from a kitten.
Combat stats
When fighting Hell-Rat Behemoths, the King rat or in the Rat Pits, cats have the following combat stats:[3]
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Kitten | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
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Cat | 6 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 |
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Overgrown cat | 10 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 0 |
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Wily cat | 12 | 12 | 8 | 2 | 2 |
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Lazy cat | 14 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 2 |
Dialogue
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Changes
| Date | Changes |
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| 16 May 2006 (Update) |
The NPC was made invisible on the minimap. |
| 26 April 2005 (Update) |
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References
- ^ Jagex. Mod Ash's Twitter account. 18 August 2022. Archived from the original on 2 March 2023. Mod Ash: "(...) as far as I can see the thing's plugged into catching vermin only, rather than stroking or playing with wool."
- ^ Jagex. Mod Ash's Twitter account. 19 December 2019. Archived from the original on 16 December 2020. Mod Ash: "[The wiki currently states the Mouse Toy "can be used to play with your cat, which can turn a lazy cat back into a wily cat". Can you verify?] I don't see any sign of it doing that to lazy cats, but the code suggests that it makes kittens and grown cats occasionally say "Meow" more and perform a 'pounce' animation at it. I don't believe it'll do anything else."
- ^ Jagex. Mod Ash's Twitter account. 27 January 2020. Archived from the original on 28 May 2020. Mod Ash: "[do you know the actual levels for each type of cat?] Attack, Strength, Defence, HP for each... Kitten: 1, 1, 0, 4 Grown: 4, 3, 0, 6 Overgrown: 3, 5, 0, 10 Lazy: 6, 6, 2, 14 Wily: 12, 8, 2, 12 @OSRS_Wiki"