I am never getting a cat. 
Why can't they just do the business outside like puppies? ack.
Why can't they just do the business outside like puppies? ack.
There's gotta be a better way...
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Our kitty does her business outside. Love the cat hate the mess. Besides our house is too small to give her any privacy. No basement and one tiny bathroom. I refuse to have it in the kitchen. We are all quite happy with the current arrangement.
Why hasn't someone come up with better ways to do things?
CLEANING THE CAT LITTER BOX
When daughter #3 went off to college, dad had to take over the task of cleaning the litter box for 3 cats (although that was my ONE demand for allowing three selfish, demanding, destructive creatures to invade our home... that I wouldn't have to take care of the litter box
I use Fresh Step Multi-Cat cumping Extreme or with Frebreze. It doesn't matter, they're still Smelly Cat. And I get them cat food with the first ingredient either chicken or turkey, as recommended by the rescue center nazis. They don't get salmon anymore as it only makes things more pungent.
LOL. I keep telling them to go play in the street but they don't listen. Just kidding. They don't go outside, because the rescue center nazis made us sign a commitment not to let them go outdoors or declaw them. And my family is stupid enough to comply. And because of that I refuse to get new chairs or sofa until they're gone.
I only have one box. I'm not about to clean two or three of them. As long as I clean it every other day they don't seem to mind.
It's good yo have a kindred spirit.Oh great spirits hear his wish!!!
I swore on everything holy and unholy I'd never, ever, EVER, clean a litter box, well.......
My pack (pride?) of old barn cats were alway a total freakin' joy, they never even tried to come in the house, they wanted nothin' to do with it.
All I had to do was make sure they had fresh water, dumped a big bag of Blue Barn cat food in a cooler about once a week, gave 'em a scratch behind their ears every now and again, they dealt with sharped toothed pests and thought I was a god...these two I live with, I'm just their man Godfrey
Use Zeolite in your area. Get a big bag of it, looks just like kitty litter, and it absorbs odors. I use it on the bottom of cat box, and mix it in with the litter and then I just leave a big bag open in the area where the cat box is. It works for me. No more odors. And when I do smell cat box, I know I need more zeolite. It is a natural absorbent.
I haven't tried them but have friends that have used some. They say they don't work well with the cement piss the cats produce and just go back to the old method toot sweet.
I want some of those drugs of yours.
My cats plan my demise on a daily basis on how to best cause me to trip down the stairs and break my neck.
Smart woman.This is why cat pictures are cute, as opposed to a real cat.
Hope you get your problem solved, Dio.
The cats can't be taught anything. They give orders, not take them. No wonder cats are considered female in the German language.
They're not allowed in the bathroom. They keep licking the toothbrushes and destroying the toilet paper.
They could, but at our place I am confident they would use the sandbox for the grand kids, and kill all the baby bunnies, just for the fun of it.I am never getting a cat.
Why can't they just do the business outside like puppies? ack.
My sentiments exactly. I have two cats. When I broke my leg, other people, mostly my aged and decrepit mother, had to clean the litter box for months! I heard there was a flushable litter box, but it has to be installed within three feet of a major drain (toilet or washing machine), and we don't have room in the kitchen or a bathroom, and not much room on the porch outside the kitchen door, and then some way would have to be found to prevent freezing. Also I read that these contraptions are nothing but trouble, clog constantly and are worse than a regular litter box. I did have a carpenter friend build a cute wooden cover shaped like a cottage so the litter box is hidden.
Feeding the wretched beasts is also a major pain. I'd prefer to have a feeder stocked at all times, but they get too fat, so are on restricted diets. It's arranged so Yellow Cat (they both have names but Mom has never bothered to learn them) eats on the porch while Black Cat eats in the kitchen. Yellow Cat is prevented from getting in by a plastic cover over the cat flap. Trouble is sometimes people forget to remove it for hours after they eat, leaving Yellow Cat trapped out in the cold while Black Cat can't get to the litter box! No major disasters so far luckily.
Feeding the wretched beasts is also a major pain. I'd prefer to have a feeder stocked at all times, but they get too fat, so are on restricted diets. It's arranged so Yellow Cat (they both have names but Mom has never bothered to learn them) eats on the porch while Black Cat eats in the kitchen. Yellow Cat is prevented from getting in by a plastic cover over the cat flap. Trouble is sometimes people forget to remove it for hours after they eat, leaving Yellow Cat trapped out in the cold while Black Cat can't get to the litter box! No major disasters so far luckily.
