Duchess SMELLS better, at any rate

[cjsmith]

Duchess has had, drumroll please, a BATH. She was not exactly pleased, but she cooperated well enough and I got her cleaned up quickly. I rushed it a bit because she was panting (bad kittymom! wrong water temp!). She and I are both lucky this wasn't a flea bath. I could leave her head completely dry.

Then I sat and watched (and combed) her while she dried out a bit. I wasn't about to let her climb right back into a litterbox with wet feet, not after digging out what I dug out from under her toesies.

After a bit of combing and towel-fluffing she began to groom herself. It was wonderful to see. First time she's shown any interest in that in days.

She still misses the box, at least the little one in the bathroom, but maybe it's not her fault: the box isn't quite as long as she is. She's got a big frame. So now she's out of the bathroom and she can use the big mondo box again.

Time to go crush up her meds. [edit: She doesn't want wet food! Grump.]

Comments

[sunnydale47.livejournal.com]

That's a great idea! But the enclosed box works really well, and Val has been using it all his life. It's just a plain box, like this one (http://www.kittenkaboodle.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Session_ID=44A89B9100031D10000043A800000000&Screen=PROD&Product_Code=CP72&Category_Code=Cat-Litter-Box). To fit in he has to stick his head and shoulders out of the entrance while he goes, but that's okay -- he likes to have people around when he goes, so he doesn't mind the lack of privacy. ;-)

We recently got one of these domed litter boxes (http://furlongspetsupply.com/booda_dome_clean_step_litter_box.htm) to clean their feet on their way out, but Val won't use it. Friday likes it, though, and the ridges do seem to get some of the litter off his paws before he tracks it all over the house.

More recently I did think of getting a bristle doormat but I was afraid they wouldn't like walking on it and would decide to just go somewhere else!

[shadopanther.livejournal.com]

We have 2 Booda dome (http://www.petco.com/Shop/petco_Product_R_1654_Nav_1_N_0_Ntt_Booda%20dome_sku_823422_familyID_9965.aspx) litter boxes here, but neither one is the kind with the ramp. ...We then have rubber kitty anti-litter mats in front. One is shaped like a cat's face with rubber nubs kind of like a small version of a rubber nubbed door mat, the other is more like a ramp with raised bars only without much height. The mats seem to help with getting the litter off the feet... but some is still tracked further around the house.