If It Was Your Toilet, Would You Be Happy? Pt 6

My advice is, whether you wish to heed it or not.

Don’t make the space cramped.

Don’t make the space so state of the art, that he ends up poling his bottom over the edge and does his business outside of the box anyway.

As for hooded, I don’t think so.

If you don’t want to clean regularly, then don’t have an animal as a pet.  They are going to make a mess regardless of what you think – everyone of us whether we be  2 or 4 legged need to use the toilet several times over the hours of the day and night.

No matter how much money you have, be caring about your animal in all aspects of it’s life.  A cat is there to keep you company and give you someone to care for.  Any amount of money is not going to make you his favourite person if you do not respect his own toilet needs as you would for yourself.

Cats do not want privacy – why would they?  They are creatures of the greater outer world.  They do no seek mollycoddling like we do.

They don’t worry about heated toilet seats and bidets that flush warm water.

They don’t worry about matching toilet seat covers and toilet surround mats either.

They like to dig and dig deep to cover up their business.  Remember that they do not look at what they are covering up either when they are doing it – they just turn around and use their paws to throw dirt at the mess where they just left it.

And my advice to you is that if you constantly come home and see the mess outside the kitty litter box, then sure as eggs, your cat does NOT LIKE what you have provided for his toilet habits. No, he is not missing the box.  He is very carefully, just NOT USING the box.

When they are disturbed by a threat that is perceived by them to be dangerous, they need to move quickly. Allow them that privilege.

Kittens grow into cats – some very large.  AND so should there toilet facilities.

Now, my idea of a perfectly designed kitty litter box –

• cat designed
• clean
• large
• uncovered
• at least their length plus another half-length again in size
• they want to turn comfortably in it and around it
• Highish sides that they can see over or through
• Under-the-bed 60 litre storage containers are a great size

So what’s it going to be my human?

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Do we not realise that most animals have clean toilet habits – very clean.  They do not want to be inside something that is hard to escape from quickly.  They do not want to be sitting doing  their fresh business when last week’s business is still in there as well.  I doubt that cats like their very own toilet smell anyway – well I don’t think so – why would they?

Some of these hooded contraptions have a small opening at the top that the cat is supposed to be able to be agile enough to climb in and out of.  Or there is no opening in the top but a small U shape opening on the side – very small. Like a mouse entrance through a wall.

And in case of disturbance – how quickly could a cat who feels entrapped be able to get out of there?  I can just envision a hooded enclosed kitty litter being turned upside down and thrashed across the floor  as the occupant panics BIG time inside doing his best to claw his way outside.

Yes, there are a lot of things to be said about kitty litter boxes, buildings, enclosures or whatever they are named at the time.

Can you imagine having a friend over for coffee only for the coffee table to suddenly be visited by the feline in the house and there you are eating off the same place knowing he is underneath doing his business?  Not my idea of a pleasant cup of tea morning with a friend I can tell you now.

Do you remember your experience inside a car washing facility?  How the blowers go up and down serving out water and then polish and then a vacuum system to suck the water off your car?  Well, they even have kitty litters like that too.  My cat would freak out at just the sounds coming along to disturb his peace when the automated box thinks he has finished and he HAS NOT.

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They are made in all shapes and sizes, come odour-free if you wish.  Even designs to make them look like a piece of your furniture are out there now, readily available to even fit into a tight corner.  I mean – were it a choice for you – would you use them is all that I ask? They come with and without covers, with and without access doors, with and without great height, with and without transparency, actually if you desire a particular kitty litter that is totally able to fit into your lifestyle, then I know there will be someone out there who would be willing to make it for you.

Again I would ask though – is your design something you would use yourself if you were the cat?

The other day I even saw one that after use, you can push a button and little rakes come in and out raking the mess to one side and out to a delivery room away from the kitty litter box.  Now, how convenient for the busy person who doesn’t want to clean themselves.  The only drawback I could see with one of those is if they get clogged, what happens then?  Who would be called in to clean the rakes?  The owner told me that you can get one that is automatic as well, that senses when the cat has finished his business, and turns itself on automatically.   I can just imagine what that would be like: much like my first experience with  an automatically flushing toilet at the airport once – I hadn’t quite finished and next thing the water started gushing around and gurgling noises below me half scared the wits out of me.  Imagine your poor cat who hasn’t got a clue that people have such innovative ideas about things.

Then I have seen the hooded enclosures – what a smell trap they are for goodness sakes.  Every time the poor cat uses it I can just imagine comparing it to the roadside toilet that never gets cleaned – and I most certainly have never seen a cat that smoked heavily to help remove the smell while he is using it himself.

Again I ask, would you  use one of these hooded types yourself?

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I often wonder when I visit other obvious cat homes, what on earth the owner was thinking when sometimes I have to step carefully between pieces of kitty litter spread out haphazardly across the floor of their laundry or their bathroom and sometimes even a kitchen corner.  It is so obvious to an outsider that the tray is far too small for their cat because it is so evident in the mess that he leaves when he uses it.

If I were a cat, I would like to stretch out and be able to turn around without hindrance.  I would be very delicate in the covering up of my mess and therefore I would enjoy a deep spread of kitty litter.  Of course I am not a cat, but these are things that go through my mind whenever I find myself having to provide someone other than myself with something of value.  Like for instance when I am buying someone a present I go to great pains to be on their side of the fence as to whether it is something suitable that they would use and even with the accompanying card, is what is written on the card appropriate for the occasion etc ,etc.

So with a kitty litter.

I don’t know about you, but have you ever been forced to use public conveniences on the side of the road?  Honestly we stopped alongside one once on one of our many rental relocation jobs and you would need to be a heavy smoker to just step up and open the door of one. The smell was so overwhelming.  Even when I was very young and stayed often with my grandparents, their outdoor long-drop toilet never smelled like that.

Now I am referring here to a kitty litter with a hood, or that is enclosed in some way simply to suit yourself because you don’t want to clean up as often as maybe you should. There are many ridiculous designs out there nowadays that to my way of thinking do not even consider the needs of the cat but rather the owner whose house it is going to grace.

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I was very happy once he was big enough to move him in and out of the cat flap until he got used to going in and out by himself.  Once he realised that there was all of this freedom outside he never looked back.  I certainly never had to use a kitty litter ever again.  Our cat even knew what the garden was for – it was like an automatic bee-line for the dirt at the edge of the pathway – I didn’t even have to show him that – what  a clever kitty kat we had now that I look back in hindsight.

Our daughter has an inside cat because they live in an apartment at the top of a 39 storey building.  He cannot even go out on the deck for fear of him chasing a bird and ultimately falling to his certain death.  Therefore, it was imperative from the start that he should have a kitty litter box.  She started out small and as he has grown so is the kitty litter box.  Last time we visited her he had a really good size one that did not allow too much mess outside the enclosure.  As I recall she brought a large laundry size basket one  – really large and it does the job perfectly.  She keeps it in her ensuite, therefore it is away from the house as they entertain a lot.  As he is really a shy cat, no one would even know that he is part of their family because he only ventures between her bed and the ensuite when he hears strange voices in the house.

The rest of the day he spends sleeping stretched out really long inside her sheets.

There is no possibility of fleas as he goes nowhere to get any.  A lovely clean cat with all of his own cat furniture to play and scratch on – he is rather spoilt.

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