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<blockquote data-quote="susiestar" data-source="post: 573639" data-attributes="member: 1233"><p>This truly is NOT his fault. It is because you changed litter. They are often SUPER sensitive to it. You might consider looking around to see if another store has the one you were using. Sam's also have a very good inexpensive ltter, though it is the clumping kind. We have NEVER found a non-clumping litter that didn't reek from the first use of the litter. But maybe our cats scratched more than Bruce. Why not send him to live with easy child since Darrin is the one who wanted the kitty? It is going to be SUPER traumatic and hard on Bruce to be suddenly tossed outside. he has ZERO skills to survive ouside with other cats, even if you still feed him. He simply doesn't know HOW to survive and the other cats are going to be horrible to him most likely. Please rehome hm rather than just throwing him out. It is NOT his fault that you gave in to Darrin and easy child, nor that he was not taught how to survive living outside. </p><p></p><p>I will mention that when I spoke up about making a dog an outside animal for this very issue I was jumped on and accused of abuse by MANY on this board. I was raised the complete opposite of you, Lisa. Our cats were insde and went out when they wanted, but we never had an inside dog because they have to be taken out so often duing the day or they pee/poop everywhere. Cats go inside, but you don't hae to clean up after each mess because they only use their litter box unless they were trained otherwise or their human does something different with the litter that they don't like. Though we have had a couple of cats that would ask to go outside when they had to potty, though we never did train them and I wouldn't know how to train them Occupational Therapist (OT) do that. </p><p></p><p>I am sorry this is such a problem. I do understand it as I won't keep a cat that potties on things in the house unless it is due to my changing litter or the cat being fixed. I will go back to the old litter or find one the cat likes, or deal with vet issues before I rehome, but I won't keep towels/clothes a cat has urinated on, esp a male cat (they have much stronger smelling urine). They sell an enzyme cleaner for pet stains called "Kids and Pets" that is not nearly as expensive as other brands but works very well, far better than vinegar ever could. in my opinion vinegar just makes the area smell like urine and vinegar and it has NEVER gotten an animal we owned to not wet somewhere. This stuff I recommended? Very definitely did keep other animals from pottying in that area. The cleaner I mentioned is under five bucks for thirty two ounces and very effective.</p><p></p><p>(((hugs))) I know how frustrating it is to have an animal pottying inappropriately. </p><p></p><p>I think it would be a good time for your allergies and budget to necessitate moving Sir Bruce to easy child's house for Darrin. Caring for it, incl doing the litter box, could be a good chore for him. You would be the nice Nana who raised the cat until Darrin was old enough to be responsible for him, Know what I mean?? How could easy child resist, esp if you asked in front of Darrin AND went on about how bad your allergies are with a cat in the house.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="susiestar, post: 573639, member: 1233"] This truly is NOT his fault. It is because you changed litter. They are often SUPER sensitive to it. You might consider looking around to see if another store has the one you were using. Sam's also have a very good inexpensive ltter, though it is the clumping kind. We have NEVER found a non-clumping litter that didn't reek from the first use of the litter. But maybe our cats scratched more than Bruce. Why not send him to live with easy child since Darrin is the one who wanted the kitty? It is going to be SUPER traumatic and hard on Bruce to be suddenly tossed outside. he has ZERO skills to survive ouside with other cats, even if you still feed him. He simply doesn't know HOW to survive and the other cats are going to be horrible to him most likely. Please rehome hm rather than just throwing him out. It is NOT his fault that you gave in to Darrin and easy child, nor that he was not taught how to survive living outside. I will mention that when I spoke up about making a dog an outside animal for this very issue I was jumped on and accused of abuse by MANY on this board. I was raised the complete opposite of you, Lisa. Our cats were insde and went out when they wanted, but we never had an inside dog because they have to be taken out so often duing the day or they pee/poop everywhere. Cats go inside, but you don't hae to clean up after each mess because they only use their litter box unless they were trained otherwise or their human does something different with the litter that they don't like. Though we have had a couple of cats that would ask to go outside when they had to potty, though we never did train them and I wouldn't know how to train them Occupational Therapist (OT) do that. I am sorry this is such a problem. I do understand it as I won't keep a cat that potties on things in the house unless it is due to my changing litter or the cat being fixed. I will go back to the old litter or find one the cat likes, or deal with vet issues before I rehome, but I won't keep towels/clothes a cat has urinated on, esp a male cat (they have much stronger smelling urine). They sell an enzyme cleaner for pet stains called "Kids and Pets" that is not nearly as expensive as other brands but works very well, far better than vinegar ever could. in my opinion vinegar just makes the area smell like urine and vinegar and it has NEVER gotten an animal we owned to not wet somewhere. This stuff I recommended? Very definitely did keep other animals from pottying in that area. The cleaner I mentioned is under five bucks for thirty two ounces and very effective. (((hugs))) I know how frustrating it is to have an animal pottying inappropriately. I think it would be a good time for your allergies and budget to necessitate moving Sir Bruce to easy child's house for Darrin. Caring for it, incl doing the litter box, could be a good chore for him. You would be the nice Nana who raised the cat until Darrin was old enough to be responsible for him, Know what I mean?? How could easy child resist, esp if you asked in front of Darrin AND went on about how bad your allergies are with a cat in the house. [/QUOTE]
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