9234dwz@houxf.UUCP (Nomad # 73299651) (09/23/85)
Our latest addition Katmandu (mandy for short) has a strange
habit, after using the litterbox she starts the covering motion
OUTSIDE the box. She eventually covers her "activity" and leaves
(the area surrounding the litter box is carpeted).
One of our other cats has started to copy this habit , what gives ?
Dave Peak
@ ihnp4!hotel!dxp
"All the net's a stage and all the men and women merely ham actors !"
- Rev Peak (apologies to Bill S.)ed@hp-pcd.UUCP (ed) (09/26/85)
Our cat did the same thing. I have no idea why, perhaps they are simply being thorough. One of my favorite antics along these same lines, is when I offer him a plate of food my wife had just cooked, and he proceeds to 'bury' the offering. He also does this with recently emptied wine glasses left on the floor. Ed Lee Hewlett-Packard Corvallis Workstation Operation
booter@lll-crg.UUCP (Elaine Richards) (09/27/85)
In article <1003@houxf.UUCP> 9234dwz@houxf.UUCP (Nomad # 73299651) writes: > > Our latest addition Katmandu (mandy for short) has a strange >habit, after using the litterbox she starts the covering motion >OUTSIDE the box. She eventually covers her "activity" and leaves > Dave Peak > @ ihnp4!hotel!dxp Dave, every cat I have ever had did that. I have one word for it STUPID. Cats are pretty, loving, cunning, and a bit dim. Be glad you have a devoted box user. My cat and I had 4 years or quarrels over the proper use of a bed as a sleeping area, not a latrine. (I bought a bed to our mutual liking and she decided that sleeping in it was more fun than pissing on it) I have a cat box that is covered all over (a BOX all around). She cannot kick the gravel all over the floor. She still paws out the opening on the linoleum and the wall. They want a LOT of sand. They want clean feet and clean sand. In their teeny little brains, they are out in the Nile delta (where they came from). Lots of sand there. They want a larger box. To save the carpet, put a big plywood or lucite board under the commode. Its easier to clean. It is really no big deal.. Don't worry about it E *****
larry@kitty.UUCP (Larry Lippman) (10/12/85)
> Our latest addition Katmandu (mandy for short) has a strange > habit, after using the litterbox she starts the covering motion > OUTSIDE the box. She eventually covers her "activity" and leaves > (the area surrounding the litter box is carpeted). > One of our other cats has started to copy this habit , what gives ? Some of our cats do the same thing; it appears to be a common cat idiosyncrocy. Our litter box is located in a bathroom adjacent to the toilet. One of our cats has the particular habit of pawing the ceramic base of the toilet after completing her potty within the litterbox. Strange little suckers, aren't they? === Larry Lippman @ Recognition Research Corp., Clarence, New York === === UUCP {decvax,dual,rocksanne,rocksvax,watmath}!sunybcs!kitty!larry === === VOICE 716/741-9185 {rice,shell}!baylor!/ === === FAX 716/741-9635 {AT&T 3510D} syr!buf!/ === === TELEX 69-71461 ansbak: ELGECOMCLR {via WUI} ihnp4!/ === === === === "Have you hugged your cat today?" ===
hxe@rayssd.UUCP (Heather Emanuel) (10/25/85)
> > Our latest addition Katmandu (mandy for short) has a strange > > habit, after using the litterbox she starts the covering motion > > OUTSIDE the box. She eventually covers her "activity" and leaves > > (the area surrounding the litter box is carpeted). > > One of our other cats has started to copy this habit , what gives ? > > Some of our cats do the same thing; it appears to be a common cat > idiosyncrocy. Our litter box is located in a bathroom adjacent to the toilet. > One of our cats has the particular habit of pawing the ceramic base of the > toilet after completing her potty within the litterbox. I wondered if my cats (all but one of whom seemed to do it) were trying to clean the kitty litter out of their paws after scratching in the litter box, until my oldest reversed the order. He now scratches *outside* the box, climbs in, does his duty, and scratches *inside* the box for as long as I'll let him (I think he likes to play with it like a sandbox and eventually the noise gets to me if I'm around, which, invariably, I am, because he's a social cat and will only visit the bathroom when I do). Lately, he's taken to sniffing the cat food that I put down for him and, depending upon whether he approves of it or not, he will scratch the floor in front of the food dish. That's a statement that needs no interpretation! -- --Heather Emanuel {allegra, decvax!brunix, linus, raybed2} rayssd!hxe -------------------------------------------------------------------- I don't think my company *has* an opinion, so the ones in this article are obviously my own. -------------------------------------------------------------------- "Ain't life a brook... Sometimes I feel just like a polished stone" -Ferron