Thread: Bad litter tray habits - help needed!

I am not kidding...have never had a problem with the kittens use of the litter tray until I read this thread.

Yesterday, twice Poif stood in the very corner of the litter tray and crapped on the floor!! How and why has this happened?!

Could someone maybe write a thread about how especially clean their cat is? And maybe add in that they scoop the crappy litter out after themselves too...

Originally Posted by Bethy_boo

I am not kidding...have never had a problem with the kittens use of the litter tray until I read this thread.

Yesterday, twice Poif stood in the very corner of the litter tray and crapped on the floor!! How and why has this happened?!

Could someone maybe write a thread about how especially clean their cat is? And maybe add in that they scoop the crappy litter out after themselves too...

The only time when we have had "overhang" problems was once when we used a litter tray with the lower sides & a couple of times when hubby has been over enthusiastic
with the filling of the deeper ones & folled them nearly to the top.....
We have one boy who is very fussy that everything in the tray is covered & China RIP would never cover her poo so Bruce would go behind her & do it for her muttering away all the time he was doing it,then if he saw you watching he would come & tell you all about it as well,since poor China has left us he has a lot more time to call his own but you still see him go & check the trays after someone has been,you can even be right behind him with shovel but still has to be checked,but sorry Bethy_boo can't post that we are the first to have trained any one of ours to clean out the tray afterwards,haven't even been able to train them to "shit"in the tray you have just cleaned before the bag is knotted & thrown,come on Bruce buck your ideas up,you know where the bags & shovel are now rub the top of bag between your paws to start opening it.....x

MC Elvis had a few toilet issues when he was younger but all was resolved when I got him a giant storage container
that holds an entire 40Lb bag of litter. Him having enough room to do his business without being cramped
made all the difference... No more overhang misses, No more Klingons.

So far so good - he wasn't pleased by the tiny size and awkwardness for the first 2 days (it was on the floor in the bathroom). I moved it up onto the loo yesterday and it has been used several times with 100% success. No cling on's and no mess on his paws. Already this is way better than using a litter tray!

We already have have what I thought was a substantial litter tray - but our 10 month male has started in the last two moths to deposit a random poo either next to his litter tray or even elsewhere around the house.

It seems that the majority of poo remains in the tray, but possibly a "klingon" is falling off.

Has anyone tried trimming the cat's hair around the hind quarters to prevent a "klingon" (love the klingon terminology!!).

Cheers

Not had to do it with my MC but when I had Felix my CH long haired kitten I had to clip his rear end or the Klingons started to smell badly after a few hours. Keep up the good work with the Toilet training - we're back to basics on that xx

OK, so we are now 5 weeks in to using litter kwitter. There have been some highs, and some lows, which I will explain. Basically he took to it very fast, within 2 days he seemed completely at home using it. After 2 weeks (maybe I was jumping the gun slightly) I moved onto the orange stage with the hole in the middle of the tray. This really confused him, but with some guidance from me he got the hang of it. Or so I thought. Since starting to use the orange tray, I have been waking up to find that that he has gone number 2 on the floor. Not every time, but a lot of the time. Luckily for me, the bathroom floor is tiled and so very easy to clean, and he seems to know that the bathroom, at least, is the correct place to go, and not in any other room. I thought at first that he was doing it because he will pee first, and then not want to use his soiled litter. But more recently, he has become very good at peeing, gets it through the hole every time, so the litter is always clean and dry. But he still insists on crapping on the floor, just in front of the toilet.

When I am lucky enough to be awake when he needs to go, I can keep an eye on him. He will take a pee, scratch around a bit, squat down as if to go, then suddenly change his mind and jump down onto the floor. I just have to keep putting him back up until he eventually goes where he is supposed to. So I KNOW he can do it. And now, every time he pees its through the hole and so the litter is always fresh, I have no idea why he would think the floor is a better idea!

If anyone has any experience or ideas please let me know!

Mark