Believe it or not, sometime a cat will forget the difference between the litter box, and the rest of the world. This doesn’t happen often, but when it does they CAN be retrained and you won’t have to run out and purchase an electric cattle prod to do it.
Put the cat(s) in a small room or cage with enough room for the little box and no more than 50 square feet to walk around. This can be done in a closet , bathroom, or a cage (we used a cheap dog run we bought second hand). Cats are naturally fastidious and do NOT want to mess their perceived living space. Having no other option they will use the litter box. After a week or two they will have recalled what the box is for.
I know that it isn’t easy to sacrifice a closet or bathroom for a two weeks. As I mentioned above, one spring we set up a covered dog run in the back yard. Made clean up pretty easy.
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Date: 2004-11-30 02:05 pm (UTC)Put the cat(s) in a small room or cage with enough room for the little box and no more than 50 square feet to walk around. This can be done in a closet , bathroom, or a cage (we used a cheap dog run we bought second hand). Cats are naturally fastidious and do NOT want to mess their perceived living space. Having no other option they will use the litter box. After a week or two they will have recalled what the box is for.
I know that it isn’t easy to sacrifice a closet or bathroom for a two weeks. As I mentioned above, one spring we set up a covered dog run in the back yard. Made clean up pretty easy.
Martin