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Cat Forum / Health and Behavior / June 2007Yet another litterbox Issue
My 2 babies are using their litterboxes to urinate but everything else they are doing on the floor of a utility closet. I am looking for suggestions as to what to do. I am puzzled because they will use the boxes for one thing but not another. 1. You should have three boxes for two cats. 2. Have they been checked by a vet to rule out medical problems? 3. Have you thoroughly cleaned the spot in the closet so they are not drawn back to the spot? 4. use unscented, clumping litter with no hoods on the boxes. 5. Try placing a third box in the closet. See if they will use that. In time you can slowly move it to another spot. Gail > My 2 babies are using their litterboxes to urinate but everything else > they are doing on the floor of a utility closet. > > I am looking for suggestions as to what to do. I am puzzled because > they will use the boxes for one thing but not another. > My 2 babies are using their litterboxes to urinate but everything else > they are doing on the floor of a utility closet. > > I am looking for suggestions as to what to do. I am puzzled because > they will use the boxes for one thing but not another. This may be too simplistic, but have you tried placing a litterbox in the utility closet (and leave the others where they are)? That would be an easy solution, if it works. MaryL Some cats do not like to urinatet and defectate in the same box. Have you tried setting up another box for them? On Jun 15, 3:00 pm, "faceman28...@yahoo.com" <faceman28...@yahoo.com> wrote: > My 2 babies are using their litterboxes to urinate but everything else > they are doing on the floor of a utility closet. > > I am looking for suggestions as to what to do. I am puzzled because > they will use the boxes for one thing but not another. I guess we're lucky. We have one box for three cats. We switched to feline pine (it rocks and when used properly is WAY less expensive and WAY less stinky than anything elese on the market) last year on the advice of a friend who does rescue work (and has about 20 cats around at a time). We scoop the poop at least a couple of times a day--we try to scoop after each one uses it, if we're around. The only problem we've had is some overly exhuberant "kicking" by the youngest, kicking a lot of litter out and a couple of times one of the girls dragged some thing from the laundry room into the box to help "bury" her "business". A couple of times each: rug, socks, and once a shirt. Ewww..... For the most part, except for occasional "stinkers", our litter life is fairly uneventful.  Signatureie ride fast, take chances. > Some cats do not like to urinatet and defectate in the same box. Have > you tried setting up another box for them? [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] >> I am looking for suggestions as to what to do. I am puzzled because >> they will use the boxes for one thing but not another. |
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