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From: hxe@rayssd.UUCP (Heather Emanuel)
Newsgroups: net.pets
Subject: Re: Re: Cats missing the litter box
Message-ID: <1188@rayssd.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 25-Oct-85 12:52:46 EDT
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Posted: Fri Oct 25 12:52:46 1985
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Sender: hxe@rayssd.UUCP (Heather Emanuel @ Raytheon Co., Portsmouth RI)
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> >    Our latest addition Katmandu (mandy for short) has a strange
> > habit, after using the litterbox she starts the covering motion
> > OUTSIDE the box. She eventually covers her "activity" and leaves
> > (the area surrounding the litter box is carpeted).
> > One of our other cats has started to copy this habit , what gives ?
> 
> 	Some of our cats do the same thing; it appears to be a common cat
> idiosyncrocy.  Our litter box is located in a bathroom adjacent to the toilet.
> One of our cats has the particular habit of pawing the ceramic base of the
> toilet after completing her potty within the litterbox.

I wondered if my cats (all but one of whom seemed to do it) were
trying to clean the kitty litter out of their paws after scratching
in the litter box, until my oldest reversed the order.  He now
scratches *outside* the box, climbs in, does his duty, and scratches
*inside* the box for as long as I'll let him (I think he likes to
play with it like a sandbox and eventually the noise gets to me if
I'm around, which, invariably, I am, because he's a social cat and
will only visit the bathroom when I do).  Lately, he's taken to
sniffing the cat food that I put down for him and, depending upon
whether he approves of it or not, he will scratch the floor in front
of the food dish.  That's a statement that needs no interpretation!
-- 
--Heather Emanuel {allegra, decvax!brunix, linus, raybed2} rayssd!hxe
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