So we have our fifth adult foster cat (I think we have had three kittens, but I have blocked them from my memory as kittens are horendous) and we have been struggling with litter box issues from the get-go.
First, she is a Himilayan and I had no idea that if I bought clay litter I would be spending the next week trying to cut it off the fur booties it created. :-)
Next we realized that she was peeing in the trap door of the fancy-smancy litter box we bought just for her--and then refusing to use it as the whole room would smell of pee.
And finally, since my baby is newly VERY mobile and into everything we had to gate the litter box room, stairs and kitten where we feed her. She can jump over the last two gates, but if the litter room is gated when she wants it she gives me a look and then runs off to pee elsewhere. Usually this is when I am holding a baby who has just finally fallen asleep and judge it easier to clean up cat pee than deal with a crabby baby.
I called to give her up today as I could not think of anything else to do, and am very tired of her crabby peeing issues. When I told my girlfriend about it and about how badly I felt, but that I really thought I had done everything I could do to make it work she said:
"Why don't you just put the gate up high enough for the cat to get under, but not so high that the baby can?"
...Duh, cat is fine now and so is baby! Can't believe I didn't think of that :-)
First, she is a Himilayan and I had no idea that if I bought clay litter I would be spending the next week trying to cut it off the fur booties it created. :-)
Next we realized that she was peeing in the trap door of the fancy-smancy litter box we bought just for her--and then refusing to use it as the whole room would smell of pee.
And finally, since my baby is newly VERY mobile and into everything we had to gate the litter box room, stairs and kitten where we feed her. She can jump over the last two gates, but if the litter room is gated when she wants it she gives me a look and then runs off to pee elsewhere. Usually this is when I am holding a baby who has just finally fallen asleep and judge it easier to clean up cat pee than deal with a crabby baby.
I called to give her up today as I could not think of anything else to do, and am very tired of her crabby peeing issues. When I told my girlfriend about it and about how badly I felt, but that I really thought I had done everything I could do to make it work she said:
"Why don't you just put the gate up high enough for the cat to get under, but not so high that the baby can?"
...Duh, cat is fine now and so is baby! Can't believe I didn't think of that :-)
