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julie & punkin (ga)

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trying to keep the chatter out of condos so they're saved for medical advice . . .

here's the quick video i got this morning of punkin & anya washing each other's faces. it never lasts long! when he's done, punkin snuggles in with the end of the fresh catnip - it's nothing but sticks now but he still likes to lay on it.

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They are SO adorable. I made my husband watch the last video, but really it was mostly so I could watch it a second time. :)

Hope I am not going too far OT here, but I was wondering if anyone had advice on litter boxes? Is any of the new "latest and greatest" technology (e.g. Breeze, Litter Maid, Litter Robot--OK, I am probably not spending $300 on a litter box, but still curious about it) any better than your typical clumping litter?

Also, we put together a litter box cabinet similar to this one: http://litterboxsolutions.org/home/?attachment_id=12 and really love it. However, we are looking at the possibility of getting two new kittens, and it just now occurred to me that we could have an issue with needing more than one litter box. Saima and Freya always used the same one--we started out with two but they would only use one of them, so we got rid of the second one. How likely is it that we'll get that lucky again with the new kittens?
 
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loose lips is ALL off-topic! :lol: that's the condo where anything goes.

i looked at that picture but am not sure what i'm seeing - is it a cabinet to cover up the litterbox?

when i was in college (dorm) i hid the catbox under the desk i didn't use, then when i lived in apartments i took off the door to the undersink cabinet in the bathroom and kept the cat box under the sink. talk about an awesome place to stash it!

it's probably one of those things that's going to be different from kitty to kitty on whether or not they'll share a litter box. i've always seen one box per cat and one spare one, but we have one that punkin & anya share. i clean it every day, sometimes more than once, though.

we use wood stove pellets - it's basically the same as Feline Pine but a ton cheaper. $4 for a 40lb bag. it's not especially great, but i live in wood & wood stove territory, it's cheap and it's environmentally sound. people have suggested using the Breeze with it, because as the pellets get wet they dissolve into sawdust. The Breeze has a grate that the sawdust would fall through to the tray underneath. i just haven't gotten motivated to spend the money on one yet. a plain box works ok for us as long as i don't ignore it.
 
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I can just see what Leroy would do with an automated litter box @-) @-) :razz:

I've never used a fancy high tech litter box but I hear that some brands are good. My cousin has a Litter Maid and it works pretty well. The only gripe is that the waste containers are pretty pricey. I guess you could just empty the container out when full and reuse it but eventually you'll need to replace the whole thing.


julie1220 said:
when i was in college (dorm) i hid the catbox under the desk i didn't use, then when i lived in apartments i took off the door to the undersink cabinet in the bathroom and kept the cat box under the sink. talk about an awesome place to stash it!
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How did you sneak a cat into the dorm? I had an (illegal) gerbil in my dorm room for 2 years. Of course, I didn't have a Human roommate :-D A friend of mine had hamster and she had gotten in trouble several times for it. She was always leaving her room door wide open and her hamster cage was right there for all to see :roll: Then there was the time another friend "borrowed" one of the goat kids from the school's farm and had it running up and down her dorm hallway @-) And I've seen people with rabbits and ferrets and other small furries in the dorms. Some RAs didn't care, or even know. A local college has a pet-friendly dorm building. It's kind of new, maybe a few years old? I remember seeing an article in the newspaper about it. One person in the article had a cat in her room and said that having a pet helps to destress and stuff.
 
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i worked as summer staff my last 2 summers (post jr/sr years) on campus - with conferences and keeping buildings open. so the jr summer when i was walking across a bridge (over a stream) i heard baby kitty meowing. i found a sweet little girl tuxedo kitter who promptly began to suck on my earlobe - someone had dumped her in the creek. mean people. i was in a head resident apartment that summer and i'd already signed up for a dorm room for my senior year - a double room but as a single occupant.

a couple of weeks after that, the director of housing was walking with one of my friends and saw TC (top cat) through the living room window of the HR apt. he said "isn't Julie's illegal kitty cute?" :lol: so i didn't worry too much. i had my door open a lot during the school year (everyone did) and i had a leash fastened to my bed that let her out just as far as the doorway across the hall. everybody came by and petted her. i kept the cat box clean and no one ever complained, so i guess the director of housing was happy to look the other way. it was officially a no-pets campus. thank goodness no one ever said "she has one, i should be able to have one" because then they'd probably have made me do something about her. she was such a sweet cat and liked everyone.

*sigh* i still miss her - she was one of those soul-mate cats. i had her 16 years. when i had my first baby she was so bent out of shape she wouldn't stay in the room with me for a full 2 weeks. if i walked in, she walked out. i had to work to woo her back over! :lol:

i went to willamette university - small college and i think they just were nice people.
 
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Yeah, it's not a great pic but I couldn't find a better one. Basically you buy a single cabinet unit from someplace like Ikea and install the door, but not the back panel, so it is open in the back. Then attach a piece of wood or countertop on top that extends about 6-8" off the back. The back side goes against the wall so that the countertop butts up against the wall, but there is a gap between the wall and the open back of the cabinet because the countertop is deeper than the cabinet. You put the box inside and the cat enters the box through that gap. We would open the door side of it (which faces out into the room) to scoop the box. It's on casters so you can roll it away from the wall to sweep, clean, etc. It ended up costing a bit more than I wanted to spend because we decided to get a piece of laminate cut locally instead of using wood, but we don't have a mudroom or inside-access basement and got sick of looking at the litter box in our bathroom or guest room, so IMO it has been worth every penny. We are in the habit of scooping it every day, so hopefully that will help our chances of staying a one-litter box family...

I keep hearing about those woodstove pellets... I'll have to look into that. Thanks!

Regarding pets in dorms, I'm sure they are very beneficial to the students and I hate to say I have a problem with that, but I kind of do. I know everyone here is responsible and compassionate and would have taken great care of a pet in college, so I'm not talking about you guys at all... just the concept in general. I feel like a lot of college kids wouldn't do so well with the responsibility. Then again, a lot of grown adults in their 30s and 40s don't take great care of their pets either, so maybe it's not an age issue.
 
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They are SO adorable. I made my husband watch the last video, but really it was mostly so I could watch it a second time. :)
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LOL.

I've been having a big pitty party lately with this cold and migraines. This video is better than any medicine I could buy. Thank you for posting it.

I bet Leroy would LOVE an automated litter box :lol: :lol: :lol:
 
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cute, cute videos!

I love Binks' Breeze so much that I bought one for the girls.
Binks is so regular with the poos that I only change his pellets once a month...
and Ann clued me in to skip the pee pads for easy ketone testing...and I haven't bought pads since last year.
I empty the tray and wash it daily...so the cost is really low for us.

We got the second box with a coupon from the website, and it was on sale at Petsmart as well...so it was $18.00. :-D

Just don't do what I did in an emergency, and use Kidney beans as pellets :shock: :? :lol:
 
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saimasmom said:
Regarding pets in dorms, I'm sure they are very beneficial to the students and I hate to say I have a problem with that, but I kind of do. I know everyone here is responsible and compassionate and would have taken great care of a pet in college, so I'm not talking about you guys at all... just the concept in general. I feel like a lot of college kids wouldn't do so well with the responsibility. Then again, a lot of grown adults in their 30s and 40s don't take great care of their pets either, so maybe it's not an age issue.
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True. College life can be hectic and a pet may end up not getting the attention he/she needs. Even busy adults way past college age may neglect their pets at one point or another. Like my brother. He's in his 30s and is never ever home (where does he go? Mom's house every single day to eat, watch tv, be a bum :roll: ). Twice now he has gotten cats but ended up giving the cats away because he didn't have the time for them. And he's now talking again about getting another cat or two @-)

I was an animal science major so had to have my pets :-D Being at the farm with the livestock daily just wasn't enough :smile: Squishy wouldn't have done well in my teeny closet of a room so I looked for a small furry pet. At one point I had 3 pets in my room: a gerbil, a betta, and a teeny turtle. The turtle was given to me by my Mom's friend who's kind of an animal hoarder :? I never had friends over (can't fit more than one other person in the room anyways) and those friends who did know about my pets had pets in their dorm rooms.

Julie, that's cool that the housing director didn't care about TC :smile: The college I went to was pet-friendly, sometimes you'd see someone bring their dog to class. That was most common in my animal science classes than the general classes. Someone even walked their pet goat around campus once :o Pets were not allowed in the dorms, except for service animals of course and fish, but lots of people had pets anyways.

Karrie and Maverick said:
I bet Leroy would LOVE an automated litter box :lol: :lol: :lol:
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No doubt he would :lol: Me, not so much because I would be constantly cleaning the floors :razz:
 
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I LOVE Punkin and Anya videos!!! They are so adorable and precious and really love each other!!!

Karrie: we miss you and send you healing vines. Feel better soon!
 
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Remember the video I posted in Caturday's Loose LIps? Emma and Leroy did their own version only with a paper bag instead of a box :lol: And guess who was the devious cat? Emma :o So Leroy crawls inside of a large paper bag because, well, he's Leroy :razz: Emma watches him and walks around to the bottom of the bag (bag was lying on its side). Then she pounces on top of the bag :o Not a peep from Leroy when Emma landed on top of him. Emma crinkles the paper bag a bit and then lies across the opening of the bag. Leroy moves around inside the bag which piques Emma's interest and she pounces on him again. Then she lies across the bag opening again :lol: That went on for awhile until Leroy managed to get his head out and look at Emma. Then he started swishing his tail inside the bag and kept looking around to see where the noise was coming from :lol: I have strange cats :razz:
 
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That sounds like it would have made a cute video. Emma is a smart girl, that one.
 
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Hi Everyone,
Great video Julie; great dorm stories, everyone. Litterbox? Rusty has 2, a giant one with a high back and a "normal" one. He is very good with his litter and adjusts himself to the size of the box (we also have a small one for the car). We use the World's Best Litter and it is fabulous (made of ground-up corn kernels). It is expensive, but it lasts and lasts, scoops easily, never smells and is virtually dust-free. I clean the box and change the litter once a month, and then only because I feel that I should. Of course, I add a little every few days to keep the depth good. It is also very soft on Rusty's feet and never gets like cement.

Thanks, Squeem, for the links to the hairball remedies in Rusty's condo. I'm going to check them out.

Karrie: feel better!

Julie, wishing you a good trip to Colorado and a successful treatment. I hope you can take Anya along to keep Punkin happy.

Ella
 
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LMAO!!! I wish my gang played with each other.

I did a really really mean thing a week ago. I wonder if I shared what I did? I put my iphone playing a whole bunch of kittens meowing on youtube in a big lawn/leaf recycling bag and closed it. The three of them were trying to figure out how to get to the kittens in the bag HAHAHA. I thought it was hilarious but the cats didn't think so.
 
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hahaha that's too funny Karrie! that's not mean, that's fun for the kitters - great entertainment!

thanks for the good wishes, ella! I'm going to take her out for a drive tomorrow and see how she does. if she doesn't howl overtime then she's going! Carolyn (& Jesse) loaned us a harness & leash tonight for one of the kitters, so we're now geared for both if we take her.

college isn't really the best time to have a pet unless you're pretty devoted. in retrospect i don't think i neglected her, but it's hard to know. i kinda doubt i did, because she was my baby from the beginning. a lot of college students probably wouldn't give a pet enough attention and care, though.
 
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Thanks everyone for the litter box input! Decisions, decisions...

Julie, I feel bad about my "pets in college comment" because I was kind of regretting being judgmental about it anyway, but now I see that you had responded in the meantime while I was posting, so it made it look like I was taking a swipe at you having a cat in college. So, just so you know, I didn't see your post and didn't mean it that way at all. Same to you, squeem3... love the story about the goat. I would never lose a moment's sleep over anyone on this MB owning a cat at any age. You are some of the most devoted beans I have ever come across! :-D
 
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