| Title: | Meower Power is Valuing Differences |
| Notice: | FELINE_V1 is moving 1/11/94 5pm PST to MISERY |
| Moderator: | MISERY::VANZUYLEN_RO |
| Created: | Sun Feb 09 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Tue Jan 11 1994 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 5089 |
| Total number of notes: | 60366 |
We are having a problem with our new kitten, Tabbatha. She only
seems to go in the litter box when she is in the kitchen area.
If she is too far away, she chooses to go on the rug underneith
the Dining room. My mother is getting pretty sick of it and needless
to say, the dining room doesn't exactly smell like some place where
you would like to eat.
We have tried scolding her and water pistol but nothing seem to
work. We also praise her CONSIDERABLY when she does go in the litter
box.
I have read the other notes in this file, but nothing in there seems
like something I could do. I really can't feed her under the Dining
room table and I certainly am not going to put her litterbox under
there! What else is there that I can do? My mother and I are
beginning to loose hope!
Please Help!
Holly
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| 862.1 | I can relate | WELKIN::STRONACH | Thu Oct 29 1987 12:42 | 19 | |
Hi Holly I can sure relate to this -- one of our new kittens has chosen to go behind the livingroom couch when you either is too lazy or waits too long to travel downstairs -- and my husband cleans it up -- I also tried all the tricks you did -- now what we do is about 1/2 hr after they eat, I pick them and take them down to their box -- I also stopped leaving any food down for any of the cats(I can tell you the older cats don't like this) -- the other thing I've noticed is that the food I've been giving them seems to give only Boo Boo problems -- very runny -- so today I'm going over to Acton to get CD food for them. We've decided also that because Bow Bow doesn't cover his packages in the litter box and she scratches to China -- that we think she doesn't like him sharing her box and again today I'm picking up another box just for her. Hopefully this is only a stage and they'll outgrow it -- | |||||
| 862.2 | SD coming this weekend | DAMSEL::TAYLOR | Certified Chocoholic | Thu Oct 29 1987 12:56 | 12 |
Thanks. Tabbatha also is having a problem with her "droppings"
being very runny (a lot harder to pick up too I might add). At
the present time, I am feeding her Friskie's buffet, but I am going
to go this weekend and get her some SD.
We may have the problem of the kittens not wanting to share the
same litterbox in a few weeks when we get Sterling silver. Tabbatha
sometimes covers her messes, sometimes not.
Keep the responses coming. They are GREATLY appreciated!
Holly
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| 862.3 | temporary extra litter box | GEMVAX::GRANT | Thu Oct 29 1987 15:05 | 13 | |
If Tabatha's stools are runny, and she is a young kitten, maybe
she _can't_ wait to get to the box. Kittens, like young children,
don't have the same control as adults. Why not put a temporary box
in the Dining Room, just 'till she gets a little bigger? It may
be an eyesore during the time it's there, but it certainly can't
be any worse than accidents on the rug!
When our cats were little, we put extra litter boxes around the
house for them. Once they got a little bit bigger, the boxes were
delegated to one room.
Marleen
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| 862.4 | RE: .3 | DAMSEL::TAYLOR | Certified Chocoholic | Thu Oct 29 1987 19:01 | 7 |
Thanks Marleen. OF COURSE! I never even thought of the idea that
she is too little to have control over her bowels. A new litterbox
is being put in the diningroom tonight. We'll see what happens.
Thanks.
Holly, owned by Tabbatha and soon owned by Sterling Silver
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