being that all my degrees are in vet med, this one is easy fill a cat box with litter (or rocks or copies of windows, it dont matter) and throw one of it's turds in there and then show the cat and let it smell it.
A good time is right after it wakes as it will usually go then and they like to go in same spot if there is evidence that they have been there before. However..... Cats are tricky lil bastards and sometimes they will go in areas that smell like someone who they are mad at (like in beds and clothes), being the cat was a stray that could be the case right now. >1) Buy the cat a brand new litter box. Don't use the one that the previous >cat used. > >2) get a good grade litter. (we use fresh step, and we've got four of the >little bastards) > >3) they do need time to acclimate, one of cats, Kai also known as "the >Special one" thought <cfset litter_box = "bed"> > > >-- >Scott Stewart >ColdFusion Developer > >SSTWebworks >4405 Oakshyre Way >Raleigh, NC. 27616 >(703) 220-2835 > >http://www.sstwebworks.com >http://www.linkedin.com/in/sstwebworks > >Boycott Sys-Con >http://www.sstwebworks.com/blog/index.cfm/2007/10/16/Boycotting-SysCon > > >We didn't have a cat before my mother came to visit. On her first day here >she adopted a stray... which meant that we adopted a stray. It seemed like >it must have had a home but lacked a collar, isn't fixed and wouldn't leave >the area around our house. > >It's really a good cat - unlike the vicious, slime-covered hell-beast we >left in Massachusetts. It's friendly, doesn't pay any attention to wires >and is generally affectionate. We've the basic training issues (stay of the >table, don't drink out of my cup, etc). > >BUT... the cat isn't very good the litter box. He does seem to pick his >alternates well (he's crapped in the bathroom sink and the bathtub and we >caught him pissing in our downstairs sink once) but we're afraid that he's >going to find (if he hasn't already) some little traveled corner and make >himself a habit. > >We've also noticed that he doesn't bury in the litter (so it tends to stink >more than we'd like). > >Any suggestions for getting a cat to use the litter box (and only the litter >box)? My wife seems to think that the cat doesn't like his own stink and >won't go when the box is dirty. She's going to pick up one of those >"automatic scooping" boxes and see if that helps. > >Any other ideas? > >Thanks. > >Jim Davis ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| ColdFusion 8 - Build next generation apps today, with easy PDF and Ajax features - download now http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/coldfusion/cf8_beta_whatsnew_052907.pdf Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:246342 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
