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From: ariels@orca.UUCP (Ariel Shattan)
Newsgroups: net.pets
Subject: How do I train a STOOPID cat
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Date: Mon, 21-Jan-85 13:57:26 EST
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Posted: Mon Jan 21 13:57:26 1985
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I have a problem with one of my cats.  She has the bad habit of,
whenever she's annoyed for some reason, relieving herself in the
bathtub.  She uses the litter box to urinate, but has been using the
bathtub to defecate more and more lately.  She does it mainly when
the other cat is outside, or when I don't get home to feed her soon
enough (order of 1 or 2 hours, not 5 or 6), or when I leave town for
the weekend, and leave them both in the house with supplies of food
and a clean box.

Unfortunately, I've never caught her at it, so I can't discipline
her immediately. I've tried pushing her nose in it, then whacking
her with a very firm NO!, I've tried putting her in the bathtub and
turning the shower on her.  Nothing works for more than a few days.

She is, unfortunately, very stupid.  She has always had problems
remembering her disciplinary lessons. I mean, this cat has stuck her
face in candles and frizzed her eyebrows more than once.  The
ordinary methods of teaching her good from bad don't work because
she hasn't the brain power to remember.

Am I doomed to just being thankful that it't not the carpet or my
bed? I can't seal off the bathtub, and I can't seal off the bathroom
(that's where their litter box is, and there's no room anywhere else
to put it).  Can anybody help?

Ariel (any body want a pretty, brain-damaged cat?) Shattan