OSRS Gertrude’s Cat Guide: Find Fluffs and her kitten

Gertrude’s Cat is a very short, beginner-friendly quest where you help Gertrude find her lost pet cat, Fluffs. There are no requirements, and completing it gives you your own kitten—important because several future quests require a grown cat. It’s best to start raising your kitten immediately after completing this quest.

Difficulty: Easy
Length: Very short
My completion time: ~5 minutes (beginner-friendly)

General Questing Tips

• Enable RuneLite Quest Helper (RuneLite → Plugins).
• Hold spacebar to skip dialogue.
• Use number keys to select chat options.
   

Item Requirements

(Normal accounts can buy everything on the Grand Exchange.)

• Bucket of milk
• 100 coins
• Raw sardine
  
  

Ironman Item Sources

• Bucket of milk: Milk cows in Lumbridge with a bucket.
• Raw sardine: Buy from Gerrant’s Fish Shop in Port Sarim.
  
  

Recommended Items

(Optional, but makes the quest smoother.)

• Skills necklace (Cook’s Guild teleport)
• Varrock teleport
• Lumberyard teleport
• Axe
  
  

Walkthrough

Before starting, put everything you need in your inventory so you won’t need to bank.

Talk to Gertrude

• Gertrude is south of the Cook’s Guild in Varrock shown in the map below. Choose option 1 and she’ll tell you about Fluffs.

Behind her house, pick up some Doogle leaves as shown in the image below and use them on your sardine to make a seasoned sardine.

Speak to Wilough and Shilop

• Bring 100 coins and head to Varrock Square. Talk to either child and choose dialogue options 2 → 2. Pay them the 100 coins and they’ll tell you about their secret playground

Find Fluffs in the Lumberyard

Bring your:

• Bucket of milk
• Seasoned sardine
• Raw sardine (for the seasoning step if not done earlier)
  
• Travel to the Lumberyard northeast of Varrock. Normal accounts can use a Lumberyard Teleport to save time.
• Climb over the broken fence, then head north and go up the ladder.

•  You’ll find Fluffs at the top.

• Try to pick her up—she’ll hiss. Use the milk and seasoned sardine on her, but she still won’t leave because her kittens are missing.

Find the Kitten

• Climb back down and search the crates until you find the kitten.
• Important notes:
• • Searching the same crate twice won’t work.
  • The “mew!” message appears randomly, but the kitten only spawns in one fixed crate. You can check out the image below for the location of all the crates. 

• If the kitten doesn’t appear in your inventory, log out and back in to reset the event. Don’t drop the kitten—you’ll have to find it again.
• Once you have the kitten, return upstairs and use it on Fluffs. They’ll run back home (only the kitten despawns—Fluffs stays in place).

Finish the Quest

• Return to Gertrude.
• Optional tip: If you’re wearing a Ring of Charos (a) when you turn in the quest, you can pick your kitten’s colour.

Reward from Gertrude's Cat

• 1 Quest Point
• 1,525 Cooking XP
• A kitten
• A chocolate cake
• Some stew

Ironman Tips

• Save the chocolate cake for A Tail of Two Cats.
• Save the stew for The Queen of Thieves.
• Start raising your kitten early—a grown cat is required for Evil Dave’s subquest in Recipe for Disaster.