Wily cat

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Wily cat
Released	28 November 2005 (Update)
Members	Yes
Quest item	No
Properties
Tradeable	No
Equipable	No
Stackable	No
Options	Drop
Examine	Wild.
Values
Value	1 coin
Alchemy	Not alchemisable
Weight	0.75 kg
Advanced data
Item ID	6556

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Wily cat
Released	28 November 2005 (Update)
Members	Yes
Race	Cat
Location	Gertrude
League region	Misthalin✓ Asgarnia✓
Options	Pick-up, Talk-to, Chase, Interact
Examine	Wild.
Advanced data
NPC ID	5585,6690

A wily cat is a special variant of a pet cat, which players gain access to by completing the Ratcatchers quest. After completion, players can speak to Felkrash to have her train their overgrown cat into a wily cat. (Warning: After training your overgrown cat to be a wily cat, you will start from zero for the number of rats caught for the cat training medal. Wily cats are also ineligible for the medal.) Wily cats are the best hunters of any cat, with a success rate of 70%. When fighting hell-rat behemoths they have higher health, get hit less often, and can hit slightly higher than regular cats. In addition, they can also catch kalphite larvae and butterflies (as well as Hunter butterflies, though this yields no experience). Wily cats do not require food of any kind (except when fighting hell-rat behemoths).

Players are only allowed to have one wily or lazy cat at a time, in addition to one kitten or adult cat, and as many overgrown cats as they wish. You may have multiple wily cats if you first store your existing wily cat in your menagerie before training another.

Regular cats, or regular hell cats can't be trained into a Wily cat.

Combat stats

When fighting Hell-Rat Behemoths, the King rat or in the Rat Pits, wily cats have the following combat stats:^[1]

Hitpoints	Attack	Strength	Defence
12	12	8	2

Training your Overgrown/Lazy cat or hellcat

After completion of Ratcatchers quest, an overgrown cat 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.^[2] Likewise, having your cat chase a mouse toy will not transform it back into a wily cat.^[3]

Wily and lazy cats can be named by speaking with Felkrash. The name can be a combination of any six letters or spaces, but no numbers. Note that the name will be used in the RuneScape interface for every wily and lazy cat the player has.

Players are only allowed to have one wily or lazy cat out or in bank at a time, in addition to one kitten or adult cat, and as many overgrown cats as they wish. You can however have multiple lazy/wily cats by storing them in your menagerie before training another. Players can store both lazy and wily cats in their menageries. Wily cats will not become lazy while in a menagerie.

Interacting with your wily cat

While wily cats do not need attention like kittens do, the amount of attention they have received influences the dialogue when the wily cat is spoken to.

When asked how it is doing, an angry cat will hiss and complain that it hasn't been petted enough.
Once it has been petted enough, it will say that it is content, but wants to hunt more rats.
Once that need is satisfied, it will purr and say it is happy, but that the player shouldn't take this as a sign to start neglecting it again.

There is no mechanical benefit to a fully content wily cat.

Dialogue

This article on an NPC has an associated dialogue page.
Click here for a transcript of possible conversations with this NPC.Expression error: Unrecognised word "span".

Changes

Date	Changes
[[{{#explode:16 May 2006\| \|0}} {{#explode:16 May 2006\| \|1}}]] [[{{#explode:16 May 2006\| \|2}}]] (update)	The NPC was made invisible on the minimap.
[[{{#explode:28 November 2005\| \|0}} {{#explode:28 November 2005\| \|1}}]] [[{{#explode:28 November 2005\| \|2}}]] (update)	The white cat item was renamed from "Pet kitten" to "Wily cat". All other cat items and NPCs were renamed from "Cat" to "Wily cat". The white cat item's examine was changed from "This kitten seems to like you." to "Wild." All other cat items' examines were changed from "Cat." to "Wild."

References

^ 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"
^ 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."

[1] 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"

[2] 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."

[3] 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."

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Interacting with your wily cat

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