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Found a Better Litter Box!

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Totally forgot to write about the new kitty boxes!

We’ve been having problems with our cats and the litterboxes. We have 4 cats and so it seems we can never have enough litterboxes. Plus, I’ll admit that we’re pretty lazy and we tend to forget about scooping the boxes and everything, so they get nasty…which makes kitties mad.

Well, we did what I had posted about here.

We got three 18 gallon tubs at Meijer…they were 5.00 each…and my husband so graciously cut the openings in them. We filled two of them with clay litter and one with The World’s Best Cat Litter…and let me tell you, TWBCL is AWESOME!! I love it!!!

Now mind you, we’ve only been using it for a couple days and we only have it in ONE of the three boxes, but so far…it’s really good.

Now to go and see if we can find the alternative…poultry crumbles. I think we have a store nearby that sells it. I’m not 100% sure though…maybe I’ll send the hubbs on a road trip to see if he can find it. I’m sure he will be thrilled with that.

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Is It Worth It? – x posted from Topaz's blog

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Someone at work today was telling me about their dog and how they think the dog has come to an end because of some recent behavior problems. The problems are pretty out-of-the-blue and are really pretty scary changes (I don’t want to go into too much detail) so I can see where the person is coming from when they say that they’re probably going to be putting the dog down soon.

What they said that really has been bothering me is that they aren’t going to put their dog through all kinds of tests to just prolong their life. And that they don’t know how or why we do what we do with Topaz because “what kind of a life is that for the dog” when the owners are keeping them alive for themselves.

It was almost judgemental without being judgemental…

When this person was saying it to me, I was really uncomfortable. They said that the dog, my dog I guess, is suffering by having the seizures and the medicine is just drugging him up.

Dogs aren’t human and I hold humans higher than my animals, however, I also know that I wouldn’t put my child “down” because they are sick or have seizures. Shoot, I have to deal with a sick husband every day of my life. Would I leave him, nope. Sorry.

I don’t think we’ve made a mistake by putting Topaz on medication and I think overall he’s a happy Puppa.

It just really bothered me that someone would say that. I know it’s their opinion, but still…please don’t judge me because I have chose to treat my dog for the disease he has. He’s only 3 yrs old. It’s not like he was 13 when the seizures started! He has so much life left to live!!!

I so wanted to tell this person to just MIND THEIR OWN!!! And deal with their own animals. Ugh…people. I hate them, I swear!

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Building a Better Kitty Litter Box

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I hate to say I’m not a good person to have cats, I just am not a good person to keep up with a litterbox like it probably needs, or like I should. I’ll admit it, I’m just not good at keeping up with the boxes, which is probably most of the reason why we have problems.

Right now we have 4 litterboxes in a small 3rd bedroom. 2 are large and 2 are small. All are hooded. We use non clumping, clay litter and we completely dump them once a week. We also use litterbags.

We have a problem with odor and with going outside the box.

I have been thinking about making our own litterboxes out of rubbermaid containers similar to these:

They come from this site. On that site there’s also information about “The World’s Best Cat Litter”. In their findings, which are on this page of their site, they say that they did a side by side comparison of TWBCL and a certain kind of poultry feed. That the two products, to their nose and eyes, are very similar.

This is what they use for litter in their litterboxes. I’ve often looked at TWBCL and I always liked using clumping litter because the odor control was MUCH MUCH better, but like I said above…I am a lazy kitty owner when it comes to their potties.

So, what I plan to do is make 3 of those types of boxes. In one I want to put TWBCL, in another I’d like to put the clay litter we’re using now and in the 3rd I want to put the poultry feed. Then I can do my own comparison and transition the kitties to the new “litter” at the same time…if we like it.

I also like the idea of homemade boxes, they are bigger…won’t be covered…and no bags! i hate those damn bags…they’re so expensive and the urine just pools to the bottom of them and makes the entire back of my house smell like cat urine after like a day of us changing the boxes. Which sucks!! Plus, if the boxes need replacing it’s a quick trip to target or somewhere to pick up a new box.

Of course, I’ll have to stop being a lazy kitty mom and actually scoop a box. I’ve done it before…so time to get back on it!

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