Entry for June 19, 2006

Entry for June 19, 2006

06/19/2006 09:02 am
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Only pet owners will appreciate this.



Babe has been a pain when it comes to using her litter box. She uses it, but her butt is usually hangin over, so everything is going over the edge. So, every day, we clean around the litterbox - luckily, it's in the bathroom and on a tiled floor. We've bought her three different litterboxes with higher and higher edges, and used puppy pads around the litter box. Now, you're probably saying, why not just try the covered litter box? Babe has never in her 17 years used a covered litter box - both Dan and I figured, there's no way she's ever going to use it. Although, she did use our (covered) recycling bin and one of her canvass houses as a litter box.



This weekend though, we figured, what the heck, we've spend this much on litter boxes, might as well, try a covered one. When we first brought it home, we put it together and tried to show her it, but she'd have nothing to do with it.



We put the covered litter box next to the other and the next morning, I heard this noise like Babe was getting into something, and then it clicked - she's at least looking at the covered litter box. I got up and sure enough, she used it! WOOHOO! SUCCESS!



It's been 24 hours and she's used it a couple of times. I've also removed the old box, but left the puppy pads just in case.



Who says you can't teach an old cat a new trick?