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.
Time to complete: I completed Gertrude's cat in about 5 minutes. It is very easy even for a beginner.
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.
Recommended items for Gertrude's cat
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
- I recommended you put all the items required in your inventory when starting so you don't have to visit a bank throughout the quest. To start, talk to Gertrude, south of Cook's guild. Select option 1 during the dialogue and she will tell you about her lost cat, Fluffs and tell you to go speak to her two children in Varrock square. Before leaving, go behind Gertrude's house and pick up Doogle leaves from the floor and use them on the sardine to get seasoned sardine if you don't already have one.
- Ensure you bring 100 coins from a bank then go to the Varrock Square. Talk to Wilough or Shilop there and choose optiions 2, 2 during the dialogue and they will tell you about their secret playground after you pay them 100 coins.
- You need to bring a raw sardine, a doogle leaf, and a bucket of milk then go to the Lumberyard, north east of Varrock. Normal accounts can purchase a Lumberyard teleport from grand exchange to get here quicker. When you get there, climb over the broken fence into the Lumberyard, and walk north to climb up the ladder highlighted below to find Gertrude's cat, Fluffs.
- First, try to pick Fluffs up and she will hiss at you. Use a bucket of milk and seasoned fish on Fluffs but still, you won't be able to pick her up since her Kittens are still in the area.
- Climb down stairs and search every crate there till you find a kitten. I noticed that searching the same crate twice will not work. Despite the "mew!" appearing on different crates, the Kittens position remains stationary. If the kitten does not appear in your inventory after you find it, log out and log back in to trigger the event. Make sure you don't drop the kitten as you have to find it in those crates again. When you get the kitten, climb back up and use the kitten on Fluffs. Fluffs and the kitten run back home. Note: Only the kitten despawns—Fluffs stays in place.
- Finally, return to Gertrude to complete the quest.
Tip: If you wear a Ring of Charos (a) before talking to Gertrude at the end of the quest, you’ll be able to choose your kitten’s colour as a reward.
Reward from Gertrude's Cat
- 1 Quest Point
- 1,525 Cooking XP
- A kitten
- A chocolate cake
- Some stew
Ironman tip: Save the chocolate cake reward for A Tail of Two Cats and the stew for The Queen of Thieves quest. Also, you should start raising your kitten since a full grown cat is required for Evil Dave subquest of recipe for disaster.
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