Last updated: May 20 2025

OSRS Gertrude's Cat Quest Guide

OSRS Gertrude's Cat Quest Guide

Gertrude’s cat quest is a short and easy quest where the player has to find Fluffs, the lost pet cat of Gertrude. This quest has no requirements, and completing it allows the player to own their own kitten, which they can grow and use for other quests. You should start growing your kitten after this quest, since it is required for other quests.

 

Difficulty: Easy

Length: Very short

 

General Questing recommendations

  • Enable RuneLite Quest Helper in your RuneLite plugin section. 
  • Hold your space bar to skip through NPC dialog, and use number keys for chatting dialog. 4

 

Item requirements for Gertrude’s cat

Normal accounts can buy these items directly from the Grand Exchange.

  • Bucket of milk
  • 100 coins
  • Raw sardine

 

Obtaining the required items on Ironman

  • Bucket of milk: milk cows on the farm in Lumbridge with a bucket in your inventory.
  • Raw sardine: can be bought from Gerrant’s fish business in Port Sarim.

 

All of these can be bought from the Grand Exchange on normal accounts

  • Skills necklace to get to the cook’s guild
  • Varrock teleport
  • Lumberyard teleport
  • An axe

 

Walkthrough of Gertrude’s cat

  • Put all the items you need in your inventory when starting.
  • Talk to Gertrude, south of Cook’s guild. Reply 1 to start the quest.

location of Gertrude 

  • Go behind Gertrude’s house and pick up Doogle leaves from the floor and use them on the sardine to get seasoned sardine.

location of Doogle leaves

  • Go to the Varrock Square and talk to Wilough or Shilop. Reply 2, 2.

Shilop in Varrock square

  • Use a Lumberyard teleport, climb over the broken fence into the Lumberyard, and walk north to climb up the ladder highlighted below.

lumberyard  

  • Use a bucket of milk and seasoned fish on Gertude’s cat upstairs.

gertrude's cat

  • Climb down and search the crates for a kitten.

Crates in Lumberyard  

  • When you get the kitten, climb back up and use the kitten on Gertrude’s cat.
  • Finally, return to Gertrude to complete the quest.                          

 

Reward from Gertrude’s Cat

 reward from gertrude's cat 

  • 1 Quest Point
  • 1,525 Cooking XP
  • A kitten
  • A chocolate cake
  • Some stew
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Petecleff13 is a passionate writer who has authored hundreds of articles in many areas throughout the years. He has also played OSRS with several account builds for over 5 years. He uses his passion for playing OSRS and writing to provide informative guides for both novice and experienced OSRS players. He is originally from South Africa and joined LuckyCharmGold as an Author in 2020.

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