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Saturday, June 18, 2011

Cleaning the Cat Box!



This is my most unfavorite job of owning two gorgeous felines.  These two kitty-cats are the definite loves of my life.  Playing cat toy games  with one or both, petting Pumpkin, holding Coo on my lap, brushing either of them, cats are pure joy to me!  I do like dogs, but cats are quiet.  Quiet suits my lifestyle.

However, when the time arrives to clean their box, my tummy and mind do flip-flops.

My two cat loves are Coo and Pumpkin; that is Cute Cuddly Compliant Coo and Precious Peachy Prince Pumpkin, pictured below.  You can probably guess which one is Pumpkin.  Pumpkins are orange.  He is the orange one.


Now we are in complete disagreement about Pumpkin's color.  Orange is not now, nor ever has been, my personal favorite color.  Yes, it is a beautiful color and widely admired by many.  But, my favorite colors are red, blue, black and white, quite different from orange.  Now back to the subject at hand, cleanng the cat box!  YUCK!

I try to clean it every two weeks, that seems reasonable to me.  I scoop it three times a day and add some fresh litter, so it is relatively clean.  My black and white sweetheart Coo uses it to deposit his wastes many more than Pumpkin.  Yet Pumpkin is Mr. Fastidious.  He has an absolute dislike for 'his' box when it begins to have the slightest bad smell.

He will not use it, sniffs it and walks away. He then sits in the adjacent room and looks back and forth form me to the room which has the box.  Then I know I had better get it cleaned, FAST!

My usual proceedure:

 1)  dump the old litter into a heavy black plastic bag, leaving it open just in case

 2)  run water into the box, usually in the bathtub for additional space

 3)  a brush is used to scrape some tough spots

 4)  then it is rinsed and dried with an old towel

 5)  after the box area has been swept, the box has dried, it is returned its normal spot 

 6)   baking soda is added to the bottom of the box before adding 3 inches of fresh litter 

 7)   now the box is ready for when the cats get awake after their afternoon nap!

And I am ready for mine z-z-z-z-z-z-z-z!

It really was not all that bad, it is just another thing to do, on my seemingly endless TO-DO LIST!


  

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