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| 842.1 | | USCTR1::WOOLNER | Your dinner is in the supermarket | Mon Dec 19 1994 11:53 | 11 |
| My first thought was to mount the paper "backwards", too, but that can
backfire--it's still a fun scratching log, and you end up with
perforated TP :-)
You could try using those (dweeby, IMO) extra-roll-"skirts" that people
park on the back of the throne... usually crocheted or quilted, with a
doll's torso coming out of the top %-P ... just long enough for
Melody to forget about TP and grow up a little! Inconvenient, but you
might only have to live with it a few weeks.
Leslie
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| 842.2 | Try using a scratch post in the B.R. | PSYCHE::AIKEY | | Mon Dec 19 1994 12:03 | 13 |
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I have two maine coon's that love the stuff... We put a scratch post
in the bathroom... It has now become a conversational item when people
come to visit... My guys started doing this late. They are both over
a year old.....
Good luck!
*joyce
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| 842.3 | Someone already thought of this! | LJSRV2::FALLON | | Mon Dec 19 1994 12:27 | 3 |
| They also sell a clear plastic covering device designed to prevent just
this! I have seen it advertised in the back of Cats magazine.
Karen
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| 842.4 | I'm going to try it | WRKSYS::RICHARDSON | | Mon Dec 19 1994 12:27 | 16 |
| Yeah, Melody's over a year old, too! Coon kitties grow up slowly...
There's no room in the bathroom for a scratching post - it's a real
small bathroom. And there already is a spare roll of t.p. under a
crocheted cover on the top of the tank (not too dweeby a cover, it's
just that you have to store the extra t. p. someplace). I think I will
try reversing the paper. I don't mind toilet paper with holes in it;
what I don't like is finding that all the t.p. is all over the house,
and none of it is next to the "throne"! With one of the kitty boxes in
the bathroom now (more convenient for JFCL who is getting arthritic at
age 17, plus we weren't sure at first if the kitties would share a box,
even though JFCL was used to sharing it with her old companion kitty
before Nebula died) the shredded paper often ends up in there, which is
pretty messy! Good thing I love cats...
/Charlotte
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| 842.5 | I thought I got *all* magazines | WRKSYS::RICHARDSON | | Mon Dec 19 1994 12:29 | 3 |
| Sounds like I ought to look for Cats Magazine; thanks for the tip!
/Charlotte
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| 842.6 | Try this... | AIMHI::SPINGLER | | Mon Dec 19 1994 12:29 | 11 |
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If it is just kitten behavior, (Maine Coons can be very faithful to a
favorite naughty behavior!) Try wrapping the roll that is mounted on
the holder in a washcloth and secure the ends with a clothspin. This
will need to be done until (if) the kitten forgets about what fun it is
to re-decorate the house!
Good luck!
Sue & Furry Crew (Spots is our Maine Coon kitten 9 years old!!!)
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| 842.7 | | USCTR1::LAJEUNESSE | | Mon Dec 19 1994 12:38 | 8 |
| Mine was doing this and I just took it off the roll and put it and the
back of the toilet. She isn't interested in it anymore. I guess it
you can't get a good spin on it it's not any fun. Can't you
just put the roll on the back of the toilet? Not pretty but it might
stop her.
M
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| 842.8 | The Lovely MS. Pip was a decorator, too | HELIX::SKALTSIS | Deb | Mon Dec 19 1994 13:10 | 5 |
| The late Pip (who definatly had some maine coon in her) used to grab
the end of the paper and run thru the house with it (until the streamer
broke off from the rest of the roll. then she'd go back for another).
Deb
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| 842.9 | curiouse kitty | BRAT::MINICHINO | | Mon Dec 19 1994 13:17 | 11 |
| Is there a particular reason you keep the bathroom door open? Is there
a liter box or something the cat is using. My little Harley is a very
curious cat and use to go into the bathroom and spin the tp until she
discovered the Q-tips in the garbage, then she tipped the garbage over
and spun the toilet paper into the garbage.
So I shut the door to the bathroom now.
small move but problem solved.
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| 842.10 | | USCTR1::WOOLNER | Your dinner is in the supermarket | Mon Dec 19 1994 14:19 | 9 |
| .9> Is there a particular reason you keep the bathroom door open?
I know you're asking Charlotte, but isn't a closed bathroom door the
universal symbol for "occupied"?! The only thing I hate worse than
knocking on a bathroom door (when it's been closed a *long* time) is
being *on* the throne when someone knocks: some people knock AS THEY'RE
ENTERING, shudder!!
Leslie
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| 842.11 | it's the cat bathroom too | WRKSYS::RICHARDSON | | Mon Dec 19 1994 17:09 | 15 |
| The upstairs cat box lives in the bathroom, since JFCL has trouble
making the stairs when it is cold out (arthritic hips, poor old
kitty!). Most of the time, both kitties use both boxes, though. I'd
really rather have just one box in the basement, but we are sort of
going to have to live with one upstairs for as long as the old cat
survives (she is 17, and beginning to have kidney trouble). I have a
really small place, and there really isn't any other upstairs spot for
the cat box. I expect paper would tend to end up in the cat box less
often if the box were further away - though the kitten gets it all over
the house about as often anyhow. Toilet paper seems to be much more
amusing than paper towels! My husband will wait until whatever kitty
is in the bathroom gets done before he goes in, but I don't - the cats
don't seem to mind sharing with their human slaves.
/Charlotte
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| 842.12 | Extra Soft T.P. | SUBURB::HARWOODJ | | Tue Dec 20 1994 11:16 | 18 |
| We keep our T.P on one of those Paper Towel poles - as the paper
can't 'free run' so easily.
It is made of wood, has a round base and a short pole sticking up
a bit like this
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The only problem we have is that occasionally it has a coating of fur,
where our kitties have rubbed their little faces on it.
YOu try explaining that away to non-kitty owned visitors.
Judy
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| 842.13 | | PCBUOA::aki214.ako.dec.com::cappel | | Tue Dec 20 1994 14:59 | 8 |
| Can you try just closing the bathroom door so the kitties can't get in
there. It works for my with my 1 year old daughter who enjoys the same
game.
Good luck,
Pam
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| 842.14 | so far, just holey t. p. now | WRKSYS::RICHARDSON | | Tue Dec 20 1994 15:28 | 16 |
| I found another bunch of "streamers" when I got home yesterday, so I
put the roll in the holder backwards and went off to my evening
committee meeting. NO "streamers" when I got home, although there were
a few tatters and holes. Same thing this morning. So maybe the toilet
paper isn't as much FUN this way, and the kitten will go after
something else... I can't move the upstairs kitty box or keep them out
of the bathroom since the old kitty can't get up and down the steps
real well when her arthritis is bothering her (when it is real cold
out). She gets real frustrated, and then eventually, of course, does
her thing someplace else - a couple of times she hauled the bathmat
down to the fllor and used that, and then hid from us when we got him -
the old kitty, unlike the kitten, knows which things she is definitely
NOT supposed to be doing! Not that she doesn't DO them anyhow, but she
knows she isn't supposed to GET CAUGHT doing them - unlike the kitten!
/Charlotte
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| 842.15 | | JULIET::CORDES_JA | Eight Tigers on my Couch | Tue Dec 20 1994 16:54 | 10 |
| Re: .12
Carrie seems to be able to circumvent the paper towel poles. I've
come home to more shredded paper towels than I can count. Sure
glad it works for someone though.
Carrie is also the one who unrolls soft little piles of tp to lay
on while I'm in the shower.
Jan
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| 842.16 | I love to watch them! | LJSRV2::FALLON | | Wed Dec 21 1994 13:30 | 6 |
| I have a couple of cats, Callie comes to mind as well as Tubba, that
I actually enjoy watching as they shred a roll of paper towels.
They go so excited and have a ball kicking at it with their hind feet!!
What's the use, for the cost of a roll of paper towels, they have fun
every once in a while.
Karen
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| 842.17 | seems to have worked! | WRKSYS::RICHARDSON | | Thu Dec 29 1994 14:14 | 6 |
| Well, the toilet paper hasn't been shredded for a week, so I guess it
is lots more amusing if the paper unrolls rather than rolls up when you
scratch at the front of the roll! Now it just has a few holes poked in
it. it was getting so that the kitten was using more t.p. than I was!
/Charlotte
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| 842.18 | Potty training kitty! | ASDG::NJACKSON | | Thu Jul 18 1996 17:52 | 10 |
| On the subject of toilets, there is a www address where cat lovers can
find out how to train kitty in using the bowl. It has pictures and
everything!
The address is: http://www.sff.net/people/karawynn/cat/toiletcat.htp
I never trained my kitties to use the toilet but the article is cute!
Check it out!
Nancy
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