Re: Peeing on the Cat Mat

"cybercat" <cyberpurrs@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> "Janet" <boxhill@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> Well, I've been assiduously cleaning the box several times per day, and

>> sometime early this morning she peed on the mat again. I noted that
there 
>> was a small area of fresh pee/clumped litter right up against the edge
of 
>> the box by the mat--this was easy to discern since the box was
otherwise 
>> pristine--which leads me to think that as some people suggested she 
>> simply didn't go far enough into the box and it was an accident. She's
a 
>> rather long cat, I'm told, so this makes some sense.
>>
>> I have to have a covered box because of the dog, but if she's peeing
with 
>> her bottom halfway out the door, she would indeed hit the mat. Oh well.

>> As long as she confines her occasional "mistakes" to the cat mat, it's 
>> not that big a deal.
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> Thanks for the update! Maybe you will come upon a longer cat box that
has 
> a cover. Don't you find that it's a less unpleasant job to clean the box

> more often? It's nobody's favorite job, but much better when the box is 
> not very dirty.

Oh, definitely. Although I wasn't letting it go more than a day or two--I 
think the cover lends itself to an "out of sight, out of mind" mentality! 
I'm going to be on the lookout for a longer box, although this one was 
fairly large in comparison to the others, IIRC.