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Conference misery::feline_v1

Title:Meower Power is Valuing Differences
Notice:FELINE_V1 is moving 1/11/94 5pm PST to MISERY
Moderator:MISERY::VANZUYLEN_RO
Created:Sun Feb 09 1986
Last Modified:Tue Jan 11 1994
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:5089
Total number of notes:60366

1237.0. "A day at the beach" by SHARE::SSMITH () Mon Apr 04 1988 13:04

    Just wondering if anyone else has this problem. My 4 month old thinks
    the newly cleaned and filled litter box is just the greatest place
    in the world to play. She jumps in and out. Runs all around it,
    jumps in and rolls around and starts kicking litter all over the
    place. I mean she really gets excited. She doesn't have to go either.
    It's purely playing.
    
    I call it a problem because I can't scold her in the litter box.
    Wouldn't want her to get the wrong idea if you know what I mean.
    I usually just pick her up and take her into the other room and
    she forgets about it. My 3 year old just kind of watches like she's
    some kind of retard.
    
    Just curious if anyone else's kids did this????????
    
    
    
    Steve
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1237.1I think it's a riot...JAWS::COTESilicon Fusion, Silly ConfusionMon Apr 04 1988 13:148
    Yep, Aja comes a-runnin' at the sound of a fresh bag of litter being
    opened. She just loves a fresh, clean box. Rolls around, kicks litter,
    chases out all the demons and then 'christens' it.
    
    ... but then, she's the kind of cat who comes in from outside to
    use the litterbox.
    
    Edd
1237.2Oh, clean litter...how sumptuous!CLUSTA::TAMIRACMS design while-u-waitMon Apr 04 1988 13:327
    I may have mentioned this before, but one of my neph-cats, Skyler
    Van Grayson, could be wakened from an irreversible coma by the sound
    of clean litter being poured into his box.  It's incredible.  Maybe
    it's to them what clean sheets and freshly shaved legs are to us!!!
    (except you, Edd...).
    
    Mary
1237.4CIRCUS::KOLLINGKaren, Sweetie, Holly; in Calif.Mon Apr 04 1988 15:254
    Sweetie is another clean litter box fiend.  I used to think that
    he came running because I had maybe left the box unchanged too
    long (guilt!), but apparently a clean box just has to be "marked".
    
1237.5The work is never done ...MRESS::MIDTMOENAndrea and the GangMon Apr 04 1988 15:448
    Re. .4
         I agree.  When I change the litter box, it seems that there's
    a race between Loki and Fluffy to see who can get there first and
    claim it as his 'til the next change.  Bigfoot never joins the battle;
    I guess he doesn't care as much.  I just know that within five minutes
    (and it usually doesn't take that long) of a litter change, it's
    dirty again.  Sigh.
    
1237.6 CIVIC::JOHNSTONI _earned_ that touch of grey!Mon Apr 04 1988 16:0012
    re.0
    
    At just about 4 months Milo went through a phase where he felt that
    his litter was for scattering.  Then when he was 5 months, he
    asked me please to move his box downstairs to a place he'd picked
    out in the cellar.  [I'm not making this up...he would join me every
    time I went to the bathroom and then entice me down to the cellar
    and make covering motions in a particular spot and then look up
    at me expectantly].  Apparently, moving his box to the basement
    was a rite-of-passage.
    
      Annie
1237.7SKETCH::BASSETTDesignMon Apr 04 1988 16:476
    That reminds me....I should change the her box tonight!!
    
    
    :^)
    
    
1237.8You are so right..DRFIX::IVESTue Apr 05 1988 15:2115
    I agree, "A day at the beach"!!
    
    Mocha thinks a clean litter box is the most wonderful thing in
    the world.  It's good for rolling in at least 15-20 minutes.
    However he is also one of those cats who can be outside for hours
    and come in and head straight for the litter box. How he can wait
    so long is beyond me.
    
    Tim was washing the car and Mocha "had" to play in the stream of
    water as it was running down the street to the drain, and of course
    got soaking wet all underneath, and legs and chest.  Tim bought him
    in when he finished the car and right down cellar to the box Mocha
    went.  
    
    Barbara
1237.9mine tooGEMVAX::GRANTThu Apr 07 1988 12:266
    All five of mine line up and politely wait while I am changing the
    litter in the boxes. But if I am just scooping, they all come over
    and actually _use_ the box as I'm scooping!
    
    Marleen (Sly, Adrienne, Paws, Springer, Midway)