Great ideas! Thank you guys! I wish I would have known about heating the plastic before cutting. Would have thrown one less fit...lol!
:) Wendy "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world - indeed it is the only thing that ever has!" ~~~ Margaret Meade ~~~ ________________________________ From: Cougar Clan <maima...@duo-county.com> To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org Sent: Monday, June 29, 2009 11:29:03 AM Subject: Re: [Felvtalk] OT: Kitty box with a lip to catch urine??? While everyone is talking about totes: They make nice shelters for cats, especially if they are insulated and filled with pine needles (Mom's ferals and four of my cats all came from a pine thicket) or straw. On Jun 29, 2009, at 9:19 AM, Sharyl wrote: > > Wendy, since Pepper is healthy I wouldn't bother putting any opening in the > tote. I use the large Rubbermaid totes for litter boxes. Mine just jump in > them. As Leroy got into his late teens, he had trouble getting in the tote. > I just put a small rubbermaid stool next to it. He used that to climb in. > > I did save the hood of an old litter box that I set on top of one tote for > when the kitties want privacy. It doesn't snap on but the tote is in a > corner and it balances on the tote pretty good. The girls seem to like > privacy when they poop. All of my boys have always stood up to pee. Don't > know why. That's why I went to totes. > > For the dumpster rescues in the cat enclosure, I left the lid on the tote and > cut a opening in one of the small sides. Keeps the rain out of the litter > and they don't seem to have any problems getting in it. Found it easier to > cut the tote after heating the side with a heat gun. A hair dryer would > probably work. Then I covered the edges with duct tape so they wouldn't hurt > themselves. > > Sharyl > > --- On Sun, 6/28/09, wendy <wendy2...@yahoo.com> wrote: > >> From: wendy <wendy2...@yahoo.com> >> Subject: [Felvtalk] OT: Kitty box with a lip to catch urine??? >> To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org >> Date: Sunday, June 28, 2009, 4:38 PM >> Hey guys, >> >> I haven't posted much in the past few months. Can hardly >> keep up with life offline, much less online. I hope all of >> you are doing well, as well as your furbabies. >> >> I have an 'engineering' question for you guys. I have a >> healthy kitty, Pepper, who keeps backing up to the litter >> box opening and peeing, and of course it goes outside the >> box, and then urine pools underneath the box (I even use a >> Christmas tree tray under the box to catch the urine, but >> still it gets quite ripe after a couple of days). She's >> been doing this for years and I just keep cleaning it up. >> But as all of you probably can identify, I hate the smell >> and the clean-up, and was wondering if any of you have a >> similar sitation with any of your cats and how you deal with >> it? I've tried different kitty boxes, but as long as they >> have an opening, the pee is going in that >> direction. There's got to be an easier way to deal with >> this. I was thinking maybe I could make some kind of lip on >> the opening edge to direct the pee to a receptacle??? Any >> ideas out there? >> >> Thanks! >> :) >> Wendy >> "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed >> citizens can change the world - indeed it is the only thing >> that ever has!" ~~~ Margaret Meade ~~~ >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Felvtalk mailing list >> Felvtalk@felineleukemia.org >> http://felineleukemia.org/mailman/listinfo/felvtalk_felineleukemia.org >> > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Felvtalk mailing list > Felvtalk@felineleukemia.org > http://felineleukemia.org/mailman/listinfo/felvtalk_felineleukemia.org > > Marylyn, Copper & Thomas _______________________________________________ Felvtalk mailing list Felvtalk@felineleukemia.org http://felineleukemia.org/mailman/listinfo/felvtalk_felineleukemia.org _______________________________________________ Felvtalk mailing list Felvtalk@felineleukemia.org http://felineleukemia.org/mailman/listinfo/felvtalk_felineleukemia.org
