My friend puts a smaller box filled with litter in the middle of a larger box
filled with litter (on top of the litter) and his elderly girl goes over the
edge of the smaller box and it lands in the litter in the larger box. IT WORKS!!
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From: Caroline Kaufmann
To: [email protected]
Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2007 10:12 AM
Subject: RE: OT: Moist but not wet food, like Tender Vittles?
Diane:
Poor thing! That sounds so horrible! Can you get a bigger box? Monkee had
the Booda Dome and he loved it. He was very private about his bathroom- he
didn't want anyone to ever see him go and he was sensitive about his big size
when in the litter box, so I could tell he wanted a really large one because he
didn't like if his body touched the sides and he loathed a dirty litter box
(god love him, he was such a little clean-freak...now you see why I worshiped
him so much! He had so many "human" tendencies!). The Booda Dome is big and
has a ramp that leads into it, curving back to where the kidney-shaped
"depository" is. Maybe a built-in ramp like that would help? Then she
wouldn't have to step up and into a box?
As for food, can you try wetting down crunchies? Since I sprinkle Brewer's
Yeast on crunchies for my neighborhood outdoor cats, I also add some warm water
to wet down the Brewer's Yeast. The little monsters love this! It does make
the crunchies softer and soggy after a while, but not as soft as actual wet
food, so you would still get some tarter-scraping benefits.
-Caroline
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From: "Rosenfeldt, Diane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [email protected]
To: <[email protected]>
Subject: OT: Moist but not wet food, like Tender Vittles?
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 11:01:06 -0500
We have an elderly little girl who's got a tartar problem, but is too
delicate to put under for cleaning. As a result, we don't think she's been
eating the crunchies we let everybody free-feed on all day. She gets whatever
part of the 2 wet food cans (the little ones) that we put out every suppertime
(and we even think *that* kind of sticks to her teeth, poor thing). We've been
looking for something between the crunchies and the wet, the way Tender Vittles
used to be, so we can leave them out for her and they won't be too hard to
chew. She's so, so skinny -- hyperthyroid -- and we can't seem to put any
weight on her little bones.
Also, recently she's been missing the litterbox -- she'll climb in, but not
far enough not to pee over the edge. We've already tried removing the snap-on
lid and repositioning the box, but that doesn't seem to help. Next step is a
rubber mat in consideration of our carpet, but I was wondering if anybody had
any more useful advice. (I don't know if this is a factor, but a few weeks ago
she was at the kitty ER with a big infection from a bite we hadn't even noticed
through her long hair. I picked her up one Sunday morning, she said "YOW" and
it felt like she'd peed in my lap. Put her down, it smelled like she'd poo'ed
in my lap, but it was thin and light colored. Then while I was changing, my
housemate went to clean her up, and there was no mess on her bottom, it was
coming out of her back. I had never seen so much stinky pus in my life, and
from this tiny girl! ER doc shaved her, cleaned up the bite wounds and gave us
some Clav. That wound healed up pretty well, but then last weekend there was
another big hole, where we think she bit off a big clump of matted fur we
hadn't been able to figure out how to trim off her. Now that one is starting
to scab over pretty cleanly. We were wondering if maybe her little rump hurts
her when she climbs in, or what. Once I tried just scootching her up when she
went in there, and she got mortally offended and ran away.
Diane R.
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