Topic: Question on toilet habbits ! (Read 5340 times)

alisonandarchie · « **Reply #29 on:** October 05, 2007, 16:48:44 PM »

How amazing.

dolcetta46 · « **Reply #28 on:** October 05, 2007, 16:40:25 PM »

Would it ever be possible for these 2 talents to be put together!!???

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eg2eLEUncug +

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WofFb_eOxxA&mode=related&search=

alisonandarchie · « **Reply #27 on:** October 05, 2007, 16:26:14 PM »

Archie manages to stand in his poo sometimes

He also scratches the floor and catflap after has made a poor job of covering up. Although he goes out in the daytime he refuses to wee outside and often rushes in absolutly desperate to go.

lilycat · « **Reply #26 on:** October 03, 2007, 21:15:38 PM »

My two girls can't get the hang of covering things up either....Imogen scrapes away for ages at the sides of the tray but at least she tries - Lily just uses the tray and walks off without even a backward glance

one of the boys usually covers it up for her

Mavis, bless her, used to 'dig' at the litter with both front paws - like a little tabby dog burying a bone

I always used to tell her that unless she was attempting to get to China, it was ok to stop

The Duchess · « **Reply #25 on:** October 03, 2007, 21:11:00 PM »

Jessie always sounds as tho she's digging down to Australia and is v single-minded and determined but completely ineffective...the perfect wake up call at 5:00a.m. - NOT

Gill (sneakiefeline) · « **Reply #24 on:** October 03, 2007, 20:07:02 PM »

Oh dear, Misa has always covered but scratches everything in sight as well as the litter, when he has had enough attempts there is a neat parcel of every scrap of litter!

Ducha trys very hard but often gets it wrong cos of his 3 leggs whareas Franta and Sasa(girl) never make any attempt to cover unless its outside.

maybe cats cant see near very well or cant associate where they have done something that the want to cover with something. It always seems to work quite well outside but not in litter trays. Often I see Ducha sniffing for the place he used to try and cover it but by then hes either standing outside the tray or with only one foot in and facing the wrong way

blackcat · « **Reply #23 on:** October 03, 2007, 19:46:22 PM »

it's a dominant cat thing. They are making sure their smell is the predominant smell. So no need to cover it. More effective the cover, more submissive the cat.

Susanne (urbantigers) · « **Reply #22 on:** October 03, 2007, 15:02:29 PM »

Jaffa likes to pee against the side of the litter tray so I have to make sure there's plenty of newspaper underneath the tray to catch the spillage! I think it's a dominance thing with him. He's always done that but has done it more since Mosi arrived. Same with the not covering. He used to cover most of the time but sometimes would not. Now he rarely covers.

puddypaws · « **Reply #21 on:** October 03, 2007, 14:56:14 PM »

Don't be mean Ruth, buy them a bed

Bazsmum · « **Reply #20 on:** October 03, 2007, 13:11:03 PM »

Yeah, i would say its defo a boy/girl thing...

Never position a litter tray near a wall-papered wall.....i think that's were they get their wall-paper scratching habits from

One of my cats like's to lay in the litter tray when its just been cleaned and re-filled

Kittybabe (Ruth) · « **Reply #19 on:** October 03, 2007, 09:45:30 AM »

Erm.. hate to say it... but.. It's not just a boy thing.. unless Lexy is a frustrated boy?

Heaps of pyramids, never anywhere near what she does, scrapes inside walls of litter tray, and the mat outside it.

Cheesecat · « **Reply #18 on:** October 03, 2007, 09:11:41 AM »

definitely a boy thing - Doc sometimes leaves his "business" uncovered and then Cheese seems disgusted and goes in and covers it, scrapes the edge of the tray, the carpet, the radiator.... as if dying to get rid of the smell

lisa77 · « **Reply #17 on:** October 03, 2007, 09:01:05 AM »

ha ha Lucy I know what thats like !

lucy · « **Reply #16 on:** October 02, 2007, 22:53:07 PM »

The litter tray I can deal with, it is the poo in the carrier that I find harder. Poor old Xanthe has had her second bath because she gets so covered I don't know what else to do with her.

Millys Mum · « **Reply #15 on:** October 02, 2007, 12:42:43 PM »

Taz is the opposite, he digs a mountain over his toilets and over the edge of the tray and then sweeps it back again

lisa77 · « **Reply #14 on:** October 02, 2007, 12:08:17 PM »

Quote from: dolcetta46 on October 02, 2007, 11:56:25 AM

Quote from: lisa77 on October 02, 2007, 10:00:51 AM
His littler tray is quite a big one also.. so its not as if he has no room ! he could do rolly pollies in it !

Not that you wish he would actually do that in there, I assume??

Ha Ha jees no!! he does play in it tho which I do try & discourage ! He has all the toys in the world why would he want to play with litter !!!

dolcetta46 · « **Reply #13 on:** October 02, 2007, 11:59:56 AM »

Quote from: clarenmax on October 02, 2007, 10:05:49 AM

Max treads in his poos sometimes too, when I scoop them out they have a footprint size indend in them Think I'll have to think twice next time I lovingly give his toes a kiss

Yeah, happens to me too... and he walks all over our pillows, too...

dolcetta46 · « **Reply #12 on:** October 02, 2007, 11:56:25 AM »

Quote from: lisa77 on October 02, 2007, 10:00:51 AM

His littler tray is quite a big one also.. so its not as if he has no room ! he could do rolly pollies in it !

Not that you wish he would actually do that in there, I assume??

Susanne (urbantigers) · « **Reply #11 on:** October 02, 2007, 11:12:47 AM »

Mosi covers up but he tends to fling litter all over the place and often nowhere near where he's done his business! Magpie was like that too - he'd scrape the sides of the tray. Jaffa doesn't cover much - he just does what needs to be done then jumps out of the tray! Sometimes Mosi covers for him

hOrZa · « **Reply #10 on:** October 02, 2007, 11:08:21 AM »

My boys are the same too they do cover up but scratch the sides of the litter tray and hood, also if there is food left they attempt to cover it up by scratching at the floor, never managed to get the tiles over the food though LOL

lisa77 · « **Reply #9 on:** October 02, 2007, 10:31:42 AM »

ha ha you have a good point hon !

clarenmax · « **Reply #8 on:** October 02, 2007, 10:30:19 AM »

It looks to be a 'boy thing'....

Lets just count ourselves lucky they don't have to worry about toilet seats as well

Tan · « **Reply #7 on:** October 02, 2007, 10:28:33 AM »

Yeap both my lads used to not "cover up" when in the litter trays. I have three trays, 2 covered in garden (one a huge jumbo size) and one in house and Marley still trys to scratch the side even in the huge one

Garf was the same when he used to use them. Garf now uses the garden after he saw Gizzy do it so now covers up very well with the earth. Means i havre to go treasure hunting in the soil

Sabrina (Auferstehen) · « **Reply #6 on:** October 02, 2007, 10:10:55 AM »

our boy cat Penguin scratches everything but the cat litter...

We just accept it as one of the girls will go behind him and cover it up properly.

Typicall really, us girls cleaning up after the boys

lisa77 · « **Reply #5 on:** October 02, 2007, 10:09:16 AM »

Its at least 3" deep.. Im using WBCL which is quite fine so I did it deep..

Im trying to teach him but he looks at me very odd !

I kiss his feet too.. (after ive cleaned them !)

clarenmax · « **Reply #4 on:** October 02, 2007, 10:05:49 AM »

How deep have you got the actual litter Lisa? Max treads in his poos sometimes too, when I scoop them out they have a footprint size indend in them

Think I'll have to think twice next time I lovingly give his toes a kiss

Max will always clean everything around it as well, scrapes the edge of the tray, the top of the tray, the floor around the tray, you name it lol

Then again he does it around his food bowl as well

lisa77 · « **Reply #3 on:** October 02, 2007, 10:00:51 AM »

His littler tray is quite a big one also.. so its not as if he has no room ! he could do rolly pollies in it !

puddypaws · « **Reply #2 on:** October 02, 2007, 10:00:08 AM »

Our old cat used to scrape the wall and the washing machine - fortunately he never managed to get the machine in there!

lisa77 · « **Reply #1 on:** October 02, 2007, 09:58:31 AM »

Everytime Leo goes for a wee or a pooh he never quite manages to cover it up ! He will scrape the walls, the wooden floor, side of bath.. (anywhere but the littet to cover his buisiness !)

He also then ends up treading in it so I have to clean his paws a thousand times a day !!

Anyone else hsve this >?

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