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Offline cheekycj

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Re: Litter tray manners
« Reply #17 on: June 29, 2010, 15:35:10 PM »
Joey doesnt cover his wee wee, hes the more dom cat of the house so he leaves it on show  :sneaky:

Charlie will come over and sniff the wee wee.   Charlie likes to dig...alot!  He also always makes meow noises just before he gets in like hes letting me and Joey know hes using the bathroom  :evillaugh:

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Offline Leanne

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Re: Litter tray manners
« Reply #16 on: June 29, 2010, 12:37:10 PM »
Jess doesn't cover anything

Milo digs and covers everything and scatters litter everywhere.
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Re: Litter tray manners
« Reply #15 on: June 29, 2010, 12:13:31 PM »
Benji enthusiastically covers his wee but leaves his poop for all to see and smell  :sick: lol!

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Re: Litter tray manners
« Reply #14 on: June 28, 2010, 18:24:12 PM »
Quote from: McHaggis on June 27, 2010, 20:03:51 PM

 She even went in the litter tray after Haggis yesterday and covered his for him !!!! :evillaugh: :evillaugh: :evillaugh:

What a pair they are !!!!

Our first cat Penny used to do that with our Squeaky, he never covered and she was meticulous she dusted everywhere all round the area outside the tray too!  and when he'd been in she'd go in after tidy up then get out and give him a swipe  :naughty: maybe it's a female thing  ;)  :evillaugh:
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Re: Litter tray manners
« Reply #13 on: June 28, 2010, 10:01:34 AM »
At ours dexter and cartman both try to cover but that usually involves lots of diggining and spraying litter all over the floor  :tir
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Re: Litter tray manners
« Reply #12 on: June 27, 2010, 20:03:51 PM »
In our house Haggis covers NOTHING  :grrrrrr: :grrrrrr: :grrrrrr:, never tries, never sniffs  - NOTHING......

on the other hand baby Rosie digs for 5 minutes before and again for 5 minutes after . leaving mountains of litter over her "treasure" so no one can find it. She even went in the litter tray after Haggis yesterday and covered his for him !!!! :evillaugh: :evillaugh: :evillaugh:

What a pair they are !!!!
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Re: Litter tray manners
« Reply #11 on: June 27, 2010, 19:56:53 PM »
Noah doesn't usually cover wees, just leaps out of the tray like he has been burned! This is usually followed by the 'funny five minutes': sometimes he wees with only his back half in the (large) tray which looks amusing. Poops he digs to Australia beforehand and buries equally carefully when done, sometimes he returns to the tray a few minutes later to check for smells, twice I have seen him get back in and re-bury a real stinker.  :sick:
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Re: Litter tray manners
« Reply #10 on: June 27, 2010, 11:33:30 AM »
Bless my little boy. I was just walking across the landing from one room to another, when I noticed he was having a wee. I stopped so I didn't disturb him. Whilst he was having the biggest wee ever a little fly landed on the outside of his poo box. When he finished he just stopped and froze (in his box, facing towards the back) then all of an sudden lept out, chased, caught and ate the fly. So yup, he doesn't cover wees - he's too busy.
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Re: Litter tray manners
« Reply #9 on: June 27, 2010, 00:17:28 AM »
The birmans dont cover at all and Misa on the odd occasion he uses a tray covers everything and anything and every scrap of litter ends up in a pile in the middle of the tray, if its not on the floor!
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Re: Litter tray manners
« Reply #8 on: June 26, 2010, 21:37:56 PM »
Ai chan wee's like a water from a tea pot. Then if she poos she digs litter, dump her load.
And dig dig the litter over, comes out of the hooded flaped box with litter to follow.
It gets stuck in her paws
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Re: Litter tray manners
« Reply #7 on: June 26, 2010, 18:00:36 PM »
Dave digs furiously for a few seconds, does his business, then repeats furious digging, all the while making a right mess despite it being a covered tray with a door. He then steps out bringing a shed load of litter with him :tired:

Chilli goes then does a lot of front of the tray scratching and even sticks her head out the door and scratches the rubber mat in front. The time since last complete litter change determines the length of time she does this ritual.  Towards the end of the litter's life, right before I'm about to change it, she'll scratch away for ages, to the point I sometimes have to go ind gently move her away because the noise is driving me potty!
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Re: Litter tray manners
« Reply #6 on: June 26, 2010, 17:32:03 PM »
Twiggy will dig for England.....in true land girl style.. before and after the 'event'  :shocked:but Fern does a few scrapes and scuttles off ;D
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Re: Litter tray manners
« Reply #5 on: June 26, 2010, 13:35:15 PM »
Neither of mine cover.  Byron doesn't even really scratch, Pepper scratches lots but never covers it - probably because he's blind.
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Re: Litter tray manners
« Reply #4 on: June 26, 2010, 13:30:06 PM »
Wees get puddled on the top of the litter, right by the entrance. Poops get left on top of the litter at the back then he stands outside the tray, puts his head in and 'digs' the air, sides and ceiling of the litter tray. If I don't clean it up before his next toilet he will go in dig everything furiously to cover it all up, then do his business on top and repeat the air/side digging.
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Re: Litter tray manners
« Reply #3 on: June 26, 2010, 13:28:43 PM »
SKy doesn't cover - well, she scratches everything other than the litter really.  If she does cover I'm sure it's an accident.  Robbie's another who spends ages making mountains and ensuring everything is totally covered up.  He needs to teach Sky how to do it!
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Re: Litter tray manners
« Reply #2 on: June 26, 2010, 13:20:55 PM »
Pepsi generally doesn't, or if she does she does a few delicate little swipes and looks very dignified about it. Darcy acts as if he's digging to China, covers the floor and spends ages in there but he does manage to do a good job!
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Litter tray manners
« Reply #1 on: June 26, 2010, 12:29:34 PM »
Watching Jaffa and Mosi in the litter tray this morning, I was amused by the difference in their approach to covering up.  Now Jaffa doesn't usually cover but sometimes he does.  This morning he did a wee, stepped out of the tray and gave it a sniff to determine whether he should cover or not.  He decided he did, and out came a paw and he did 4 careful and very accurate swipes of the litter which covered everything perfectly and scattered nothing outside of the tray.  When Mosi has covered, the bathroom is covered in litter and there is a mountain in the middle of the tray (not necessarily where he went) and little litter left in the rest of the tray  :shify:  How do yours cover?
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