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Litter Box Wars

5 months ago
last modified: 5 months ago

I know I have discussed this before, but it's become even more manipulative.

You all know that we created a monster by cleaning the cat's litter box whenever we notice she's used it, and she basically makes sure we always notice, calling out loudly when she has used it even if it's 3 a.m. (We don't get up for that)

If there is a delay that she does not like and I am up and about, especially if I am in the basement, she will circle around it and then start throwing litter out to the point of tossing it past the large rubber mat the box sits on.

Last week she heard me cleaning it, came down and watched me and purred loudly non stop and jumped on her scratching pad which meant she was happy to see me doing it.

This morning she gave her regular loud demanding yells that mean I want a snack, attention, for you to play with me, etc. And I followed her into the basement where she sat and stared at the litter box. And when I cleaned it her tail went straight up and vibrated and she even pranced around a bit. She is getting way to much pleasure out of making me do things. Sometimes I like her not at all.


Comments (20)

  • 5 months ago

    You created a monster! LOL Good thing she is cute.

  • 5 months ago

    thank you for letting me share her satisfied smile.

  • 5 months ago

    lol Our male cat is the supervisor on ”dooty” and quite vocal if we don’t comply when requested. He also makes sure his sister’s litterbox is clean at all times as well. Thankfully he is off his shift between the hours of 11pm-6am. We are well trained, aren’t we!

  • 5 months ago

    I love how smart they can be.

  • 5 months ago

    Would it be worth it to get one of those expensive automatic self cleaning litterboxes?

  • 5 months ago

    Love her peeking around the corner. And here I thought everyone knew that we serve at our cats pleasure.

  • 5 months ago

    Well, apparently in her spare time she's making videos. This just randomly showed up on my feed.

    Link: Using the litter box

  • 5 months ago

    Ha, I love that photo!

    We have two cats and three litter boxes. Every morning when I get up to scoop them, our male cat will wait until I am done, then walk into the box and pee. He pees just a bit in each box so he can hit at least two of the three. Cats are weird.

  • 5 months ago

    She's 13, albeit a very healthy 13 so I am not sure she would like a different litter box.

    When she started doing this I got one that had a higher barrier that could be attached around three sides but she had problems with that, so we went back to the old one.

  • 5 months ago

    Not only is my cat vocal, but I can tell when she's used the box (esp. #2) because she immediately gets the zoomies and runs through the house.


    The box is on a vinyl tiled floor in the bathroom. There's always some scattered litter to sweep up plus unlike advertised the litter causes a lot of dust.

  • 5 months ago
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    I saw an ad for a fancy litter box that has facial recognition! Maybe it was an April Fools joke?

  • 5 months ago
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    Ha 😄

    We had a different way to tell the cat had used her box - we used to joke about it being dark matter - like Nibbler's in Futurama - and her box was out in our attached garage(!)



  • 5 months ago

    She cracks me up. :D

    That’s such a great photo — I’d print it out and frame it.

  • 5 months ago

    On my phone I had no idea what I was looking at. Cute!

  • 5 months ago

    This photo is awesome.


    I agree with Jilly - I'd be framing that one.

  • 5 months ago

    OK, what photo do you guys see? I see what looks like maybe a cool stairwell, with a wood handrail??? but nothing else. No cute cat. What photo???

  • 5 months ago

    Photos here can get weird on some devices or browsers. I come here on 3 different devices, and have noticed photos sometimes get weirdly cropped.


    Anyway, if you don't see a cat peering down and looking quite pleased with herself up in the top left corner, try clicking on the photo and it should fully open in a separate window.

  • 5 months ago
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    She looks like she is waiting to pounce!

    My DDIL seems to have inherited her Mother's cat. She's very sweet and also very old and deaf. They keep the litter box in the bathroom off the family room and DS and the kids complain that the litter smells, even when fresh. She now keeps the exhaust fan and tried a different litter. Big mistake - Izzie stopped using the box and did her business on the throw rug or random other places in the house. DDIL had no idea that cats cared about their litter. She went back to the previous brand and the cat now appears happy.


    We acquired 2 stray cats when we first moved to Philly and they apparently were easy to please. They didn't care about the litter and ate any cat food we offered them. I naively thought all cats were like that.

  • 5 months ago

    Thanks, Ally - I see her now! I've only had 2 cats and never experienced either having any reaction to litter box cleaning or not in any noticeable way. Your cats who care are a hoot!

  • 5 months ago

    The tail wiggle = I'm excited or I like THAT....YOU know your cat! You live to serve...she says. Very cute! True love there Pal! Great Photo...thanks for posting!