Thread: Bad litter tray habits - help needed!

Hi guys. Posted a few pictures of Mylo on here a while back when I got him - he is doing really well, but unfortunately his toilet habits are not developing with him.... I would say that 9 out of 10 times when going number 2, he either stands on it and gets it all over his back paws, or gets it all over the fur on his backside... or both! He is literally in the bath 2 times a day. He used to do it on occasion when I got him, but now it is an every day occurrence. I have watched him, and he seems to have this obsessive compulsive thing, where he needs to pace round in circles after going to the toilet, with his front feet scraping the sides of his tray, and his back feet walking around in the litter. I am going to buy litter kwitter toilet training kit today as its the only thing I can think of that will help, unless any of you have any ideas... Is this normal behavior?

We had a terrible time with Benji in the beginning! He also always walked straight through it, or even walked through Storm's right after he had been! He has grown out of it though and now buries it under the equivalent of Mount Everest of sand!

Ditto. My three - well, only two of them Leo was always a good boy - would do similar but over time and tuning of food for more solid outcomes worked. They are almost fully accident free now, and they'll be 9 months old next week. Aww.

Be patient, and get used to clearing up.

Well, this is why I am concerned. Mylo is 8 months now. And instead of getting better, he is definitely getting worse. His outcomes are always solid too! I am very patient with him, but bathing him twice a day can't be normal, and when he does it and I am not in the house I can just imagine him trotting all over the house, over my bed, on the kitchen worktops.... with his messy paws. I think Litter kwitter may be my only hope, fingers crossed....

Have you tried a larger tray? Perhaps Mylo needs plenty of space to tread about in after 'going', so if the tray is bigger he'll have less chance of treading in his doings. Even try two large trays - he might 'go' in one, and tread about in the other. One of my trays is a big plastic storage box, with low sides, I think it's intended to go under a bed. There's plenty of room for them to ferret around in it. As for the Litter Kwitter, there's another thread about that which shows that it takes a lot of careful training, so you still need an interim measure.

Agree with Howlinbob, one of mine stands with his front feet up on the side of the tray to go,both pee & poo,he then spends the next 15 minutes scrapping around the edge & digging through to Australia,although he was never as bad as your boy he did occasionaly have accidents & leave his paw autographs across the floor,when we needed to replace one of the trays we went for one of the storage containers,the choice of size is up to you but we went for one that is longer than our biggest litter tray & have had no problems since,luckily the one that did have the slight problem normally poos in that one now anyway but have noticed that if he uses one of the other trays he seems to be more aware of not stepping in it.....