The Tabbitarium
Cat Litter and The Myth of the Self-Cleaning Cat.!
Dog may be man's best friend, but the inscrutable cat; furry, soft, purring and low maintenance is the clear winner in the self-cleaning CATegory.
Okay, mates, now I'm chuckling. Anybody whose 'got a gander' at the Diva, Miss Dulcie knows that a tabby can be anything but low maintenance. The fact is that we are not only finicky about our food, but also about where we give it back.
Everybody knows we like to poop in the box and cover it up. It's a selling point, mates, and we're proud of it. From birth, we are taught to clean up after ourselves. Momma Tabby picks up her kitten and carries him by the scruff of its neck to the space where we do our business and drops him off there with a scolding noise no human can hear and trust me, mates, we all get it.
So, Sure, we know where the litter is from the time we let go of mama's teat, but that don't amount to a hill of catnip if we are trapped indoors and our humans don't change the sand or clean it often enough.
I got to give props to the old man for trying. He is inventive and he cares about the environment, but he just don't get the litter-box no matter how much we try and teach him. One day he comes in with this 'Go Green' attitude and some stuff that looks and feels like rabbit feed and pours it in the place we do our business. What is that all about? Burn oil in the car but make us do something natural in an unnatural way? Um, old man, just say no, got it?
So I looks at the rabbit pellets of newspaper and decide that if he can put his old newspapers in my litter-box, I can put my poopies in his magazine stand and that is just what I did. Sure, he chased me around for a while but in the end, you KNOW I got the good stuff to squat on. Case closed.
Lately, as the colony has grown, it has gotten harder to keep the box clean. It is more important than ever for the humans to give us the right stuff to be regular on.
They tried the newspaper pellets, the cheap clay stuff, the crystals and the clumping stuff. Oh we've tried it all mates, and I gotta say; with so many tabbies underfoot, there is nothing like the clumping clay. AS LONG AS THE OLD MAN CLEANS IT REGULARLY! *ahem*
Petco, one of the largest Pet superstores around has a great PetCo's Guide to choosing Litter on their website. Give it a look and you'll see what I mean.
