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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 284010" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>A brief aside on cats and litter - for the sake of the environment and your sanity, try teaching the cat to use the toilet. There are drawbacks - you have to always leave the seat down and the lid up. You may have difficulty training the two-legs in the family at the same time.</p><p></p><p>Plus to do this, you need to buy the toilet seat litter tray and while training is happening, people needing to use the toilet have to remove it and then put it back. It depends on the cat, but I gather they learn fairly quickly where to go and what to do. The toilet seat litter tray has several stages. The first one is a tray that fits over the toilet deat and is shallow and filled with litter. Once the cat knows it's there, it's just like any other litter tray. </p><p>Once the cat is using it, you then switch to the next stage - a tray with a small hole in the centre where it can drop through to the foaming waters below. Still mostly litter, so the cat can scratch to bury it. </p><p>Slowly you move to a larger hole and less litter around it, until you have nothing left, and the cat is happily poising its rear over the hole.</p><p>Ideal for apartment living. Marvellous for cat ladies who can't keep up with the litter trays. I know cat ladies. I avoid visiting them because it takes me days to get the smell out of my clothes.</p><p></p><p>Another drawback - training the cat to flush afterwards. Doesn't happen, unless you're a pet trainer to the stars.</p><p></p><p>It also doesn't work for dogs. Unless you're a pet trainer to the stars. Because dogs generally don't care much where they poop & wee, but cats do. That's why they will avoid a used litter tray.</p><p></p><p>We minded sis-in-law's cat for a few weeks once and found out what she would do if her tray wasn't changed often enough - she used the bathtub. It's tragic, listening to a cat trying to scratch away at the porcelain to cover up what she's done...</p><p></p><p>Then after she went home we had a pet rabbit. He was VERY housetrained, we didn't even have to use litter. We had a plastic box which we would tip out onto the garden when it got full. The biggest problem with him was, he would chew things. Like electric cords... and husband's shoes. And he never checked the bathtub first before he jumped in. That's how we discovered that rabbits can swim. And their claws can scratch you when they're trying to get a grip on the porcelain...</p><p></p><p>These days it's budgies. And tropical fish (which reproduce themselves every so often). And outside, chickens (which are slowly dying off from old age). We live too close to wilderness to be able to have carnivorous pets.</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 284010, member: 1991"] A brief aside on cats and litter - for the sake of the environment and your sanity, try teaching the cat to use the toilet. There are drawbacks - you have to always leave the seat down and the lid up. You may have difficulty training the two-legs in the family at the same time. Plus to do this, you need to buy the toilet seat litter tray and while training is happening, people needing to use the toilet have to remove it and then put it back. It depends on the cat, but I gather they learn fairly quickly where to go and what to do. The toilet seat litter tray has several stages. The first one is a tray that fits over the toilet deat and is shallow and filled with litter. Once the cat knows it's there, it's just like any other litter tray. Once the cat is using it, you then switch to the next stage - a tray with a small hole in the centre where it can drop through to the foaming waters below. Still mostly litter, so the cat can scratch to bury it. Slowly you move to a larger hole and less litter around it, until you have nothing left, and the cat is happily poising its rear over the hole. Ideal for apartment living. Marvellous for cat ladies who can't keep up with the litter trays. I know cat ladies. I avoid visiting them because it takes me days to get the smell out of my clothes. Another drawback - training the cat to flush afterwards. Doesn't happen, unless you're a pet trainer to the stars. It also doesn't work for dogs. Unless you're a pet trainer to the stars. Because dogs generally don't care much where they poop & wee, but cats do. That's why they will avoid a used litter tray. We minded sis-in-law's cat for a few weeks once and found out what she would do if her tray wasn't changed often enough - she used the bathtub. It's tragic, listening to a cat trying to scratch away at the porcelain to cover up what she's done... Then after she went home we had a pet rabbit. He was VERY housetrained, we didn't even have to use litter. We had a plastic box which we would tip out onto the garden when it got full. The biggest problem with him was, he would chew things. Like electric cords... and husband's shoes. And he never checked the bathtub first before he jumped in. That's how we discovered that rabbits can swim. And their claws can scratch you when they're trying to get a grip on the porcelain... These days it's budgies. And tropical fish (which reproduce themselves every so often). And outside, chickens (which are slowly dying off from old age). We live too close to wilderness to be able to have carnivorous pets. Marg [/QUOTE]
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