Anniekd asked:
I don’t really know what to do with my two kitties. They’re brothers (both fixed at 6 months), and even though they’re no longer kittens, they’re still wild (I love them exactly how they are, though). One doesn’t like the box, he’d rather *** on the carpet no matter what we try, and we’ve tried a lot. The other attacked my landlord. I mean he assaulted the poor man, who had to fend him off with a folding chair. My sister and I moved back home to save up and our kitties moved in with my friend (family wouldn’t have them), who has a spare bedroom in a separate building than her residence, so it was perfect. We’d like to stay at home until we can get lots of money saved to buy a nice place where our kitties can destroy whatever and won’t have to worry about landlords walking in, but we can’t keep our cats in a room forever.
There are no windows or heaters and we can’t leave the lights on all day, so they have nightlights 23 hours a day, and we have to drive 45 minutes from home (10 from work) to visit. Both of us have full-time jobs, so we can only see them for a little while every day. We could deal with parting with them if it meant they had better lives, but would anybody take cats like that? An attack cat? Really, I don’t know. We don’t want them to be destroyed. The ****** would be fine if he were an outside kitty, but he’s so passive, I wonder if he’d be easily hurt? Maybe not, but I just don’t know what to do!
Oh, these cats were raised to fear the water bottle, but that doesn’t stop them. Also, you can’t watch your cat’s 24 hours a day when you work, you know? I can’t ask little Artie to only *** on the carpet when I’m at home.
Seriously, we’ve tried the water bottle (runs away, then tries again later, all sneaky-like), we’ve tried pet repellent (finds another spot to go), aluminum foil (thought it was a toy), two litter boxes, different brands/kinds of litter, and we clean it at least twice a day. We give him positive reinforcement when he goes in the box, and negative reinforcement when he goes on the carpet. Now what? I think he just likes it better.
Melissa
I don’t really know what to do with my two kitties. They’re brothers (both fixed at 6 months), and even though they’re no longer kittens, they’re still wild (I love them exactly how they are, though). One doesn’t like the box, he’d rather *** on the carpet no matter what we try, and we’ve tried a lot. The other attacked my landlord. I mean he assaulted the poor man, who had to fend him off with a folding chair. My sister and I moved back home to save up and our kitties moved in with my friend (family wouldn’t have them), who has a spare bedroom in a separate building than her residence, so it was perfect. We’d like to stay at home until we can get lots of money saved to buy a nice place where our kitties can destroy whatever and won’t have to worry about landlords walking in, but we can’t keep our cats in a room forever.
There are no windows or heaters and we can’t leave the lights on all day, so they have nightlights 23 hours a day, and we have to drive 45 minutes from home (10 from work) to visit. Both of us have full-time jobs, so we can only see them for a little while every day. We could deal with parting with them if it meant they had better lives, but would anybody take cats like that? An attack cat? Really, I don’t know. We don’t want them to be destroyed. The ****** would be fine if he were an outside kitty, but he’s so passive, I wonder if he’d be easily hurt? Maybe not, but I just don’t know what to do!
Oh, these cats were raised to fear the water bottle, but that doesn’t stop them. Also, you can’t watch your cat’s 24 hours a day when you work, you know? I can’t ask little Artie to only *** on the carpet when I’m at home.
Seriously, we’ve tried the water bottle (runs away, then tries again later, all sneaky-like), we’ve tried pet repellent (finds another spot to go), aluminum foil (thought it was a toy), two litter boxes, different brands/kinds of litter, and we clean it at least twice a day. We give him positive reinforcement when he goes in the box, and negative reinforcement when he goes on the carpet. Now what? I think he just likes it better.
Melissa
