Puffy Savage is dangerously close to eviction. Most of the time, I love my cats almost as much as I'd love my own child, but this week she's been taxing my nerves.
On Wednesday, Scott sent me a cryptic email at work telling me to call him because he needed to tell me something.
Turned out that one of the cats had been using the recycling bin in the kitchen as a litter box. She had left a great pyramid of poop on top of a stack of newspapers. Scott cleaned it up, and as we had no evidence of the true culprit I naturally assumed it was Bodie trying to mark her territory.
I'm glad I was in the kitchen this morning eating my once/week breakfast. I had fed the cats and about ten minutes later while I was eating my Fruity Pebbles, I hear a scratching sound coming from the living room. The sort of scratching that is normally associated with a cat covering litter. I heave my fat ass out of my hard chair and do a sprint (as much as a lazy pregnant woman can sprint) to the living room. Puffy, who had been eyeballing Bodie's bed after breakfast for which I had chastised her (because Bodie don't play that) had went back to the bed to take a leak. She also made a nice little trail of pee around the bed and on the fucking rug.
As much as I want to whip her ass right now, I'm exercising great restraint.
I called the vet to see if I could get her seen today, but they're booked solid, so we'll just have to keep a watchful eye on her until Monday, especially after meals.
Meanwhile, I'm going to go buy her a larger litter box to see if that rectifies the problem. If it's an issue of Bodie terrorizing her out of the laundry room altogether, I don't know what I'm going to do. There's nowhere else in the house that we can put a litter box discretely. If it's a territory issue and Puffy is afraid to go near Bodie's box (they have separate boxes), we might have to put up one of those toddler restraining walls to provide at least an illusion of different areas...I hope that the larger box will solve the problem, though. She's been using the same little box since she was 3 months old.
Posted by Tiffany at June 17, 2006 08:07 AM | TrackBack