"Janet" <boxhill@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in
news:6d9eb8F1gqu7U1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Last fall I adopted my first cat. She actually appeared on our
> doorstep during a torrential rainstorm. She was very, very hungry and
> ate a chicken breast and three cans of tuna in about 24 hours, so I
> don't know how long she had been out. After keeping her for a couple
> of days and trying to discover if anyone was looking for her, I took
> her to the nearby cat shelter saying that I would take her if they
> couldn't find her family. No one could be found after about a week, so
> she came home with me. But anyway, that is neither here nor there. <G>
> They estimate that she's about 5 yrs old. She looks as if she's part
> Maine Coon, longish hair, very pretty, rather vocal. She seems to have
> settled in well. She's not a lap cat and usually tries to avoid being
> picked up, but she likes to come and lie down on the computer table or
> sofa next to me and purr loudly. (Everything on her own terms!)
>
> Anyway, in the last three or four months, although she continues to
> use her litterbox to both pee and poop, she occasionally pees on the
> plastic "cat mat" doormat thingie right outside her litterbox. It's
> almost as if she poops in the box, gets out, realizes that she has to
> pee, and doesn't want to bother to get back in the box. When I've
> taken the mat away, she has peed on the floor right outside the box at
> least once or twice. This happens no more than once a week, very
> likely only once every two weeks.
>
> Any ideas? I have no experience with cats at all. Other than this, her
> only flaw is that she is the Hairball Queen, and apparently one of the
> small percentage of cats who is indifferent to catnip, so she won't
> even look at the scratching thing I got for her. So I have to keep her
> front claws clipped to protect the furniture. Luckily she tolerates
> this very well.
>
>
Two ideas: I had one cat who refused to do his business in a box that
already had something in it, even if it was his own and even though we
scoop 3 times a day. Problem was solved with an additional box next to
it.
Second: is the box nice and high? I've had some of mine pee over the
edge thinking their bum was inside the litterbox. I use a storage bin
with high sides.
Bobble
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