hippowife primitive finds cat litter mats

[franksolich]

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hippywife  (1000+ posts)      Tue Oct-21-08 08:23 PM
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Inexpensive cat litter mats.

Instead of spending $20+ for a cat little mat, I found some rubber welcome mats at Dollar General for $3 a piece. They have the all the little rubber nubbie things on them and catch litter really well.

You know, probably I should, but I don't.

I have no idea what Grandma is talking about.

Winter is slowly coming to the Sandhills of Nebraska now, and all the cats here are spending more and more time indoors, necessitating increased indoor plumbing for them.

There is an alcove in a faraway place in this house, where there are three cat-litter boxes, from Target (don't bother with cat-litter boxes from Dollar General, though).  There is plain baked clay litter in the boxes, no chemicals.  Underneath the boxes are laid old newspapers, as the once-broken ancient Gustav and the still very young William are a little sloppy about where they aim.

What the Hell are "cat-litter mats"?

As Grandma just lit this bonfire, no primitive's been there yet, but I'll check later.

[mamacags]

They catch the litter that sticks to their paws before it gets spread out all over your house.  They go right in front of the litter box.  My now dead cat Chester used to drag litter all over the place with his super long hair until I got a litter mat. I bought the cheap welcome mats with the fake plastic green grass on them though.  They seem to work better than anything else.

http://www.nextag.com/litter-mat/stores-html

[Miss Mia]

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You know, probably I should, but I don't.

I have no idea what Grandma is talking about.

Winter is slowly coming to the Sandhills of Nebraska now, and all the cats here are spending more and more time indoors, necessitating increased indoor plumbing for them.

There is an alcove in a faraway place in this house, where there are three cat-litter boxes, from Target (don't bother with cat-litter boxes from Dollar General, though).  There is plain baked clay litter in the boxes, no chemicals.  Underneath the boxes are laid old newspapers, as the once-broken ancient Gustav and the still very young William are a little sloppy about where they aim.

What the Hell are "cat-litter mats"?

As Grandma just lit this bonfire, no primitive's been there yet, but I'll check later.

Both of my cats seem to track litter everywhere.  The litter mat is supposed to help catch the litter that's stuck in their paws.  You put it right in front of the litter box. 

[franksolich]

They catch the litter that sticks to their paws before it gets spread out all over your house.  They go right in front of the litter box.  My now dead cat Chester used to drag litter all over the place with his super long hair until I got a litter mat.

Wow.

I didn't know cats do that.

The cats here don't; they mind their manners, although as already mentioned, the newspapers under the litter boxes are necessary because Gustav and William have some sloppy aims.  It's not as bad as it was at first; it's improving.

However, I still can't get the once-broken ancient Gustav to eat without scattering half the cat-food on the floor around the cat-food dishes.

[DumbAss Tanker]

As soon as it got litter on it, our stupid cats would assume it was a cat-box annex and crap on it, too.

 

Imagine the one on the left is a cat, please.

[Tucker]

Why is she buying something in a dollar store and paying three dollars for it?

[Chris_]

Why is she buying something in a dollar store and paying three dollars for it?

Because it includes the $2 "putting up with your DUmb ass" service charge.  Every who isn't a DUmmy, only pays a dollar.

[Tucker]

Because it includes the $2 "putting up with your DUmb ass" service charge.  Every who isn't a DUmmy, only pays a dollar.

H5. That's funny.

[jinxmchue]

One of our cats pees backwards.  I kid you not.  He does.  The cats won't use the litterbox when the hood is in place (apparently they like a feeling of freedom when they do their business), so I had to use some garbage bags and duct tape to construct a curtain around three sides of the litterbox (with the ends of the curtain hanging into the box).

[franksolich]

I just checked the bonfire; it's still lit, but no primitives at it.

I'm still greatly confused about Grandma, though; she and her husband live out in the country, somewhere south of Nebraska (either Oklahoma or Texas, apparently), because they want to live the simpler rustic "old-fashioned" sort of life, life as it is miscontrued as to have been.

But Grandma uses a microwave oven and an electric mixer, among other things.

Things that weren't found in Joe and Sadie's sod house circa 1888.

And now this, for cats.

I can guarantee you that Joe and Sadie in their sod house in 1888 had no such comforts for cats.

[Bondai]

Somehow allowing animals to shit in the house just doesn't sound right, or smell right either. Why can't cats be trained to shit outside?

[EastFacingNorth]

Somehow allowing animals to shit in the house just doesn't sound right, or smell right either. Why can't cats be trained to shit outside?

They can, but in cold weather some people feel as though it isn't right to toss the cat outside.

[MrsSmith]

One of our cats pees backwards.  I kid you not.  He does.  The cats won't use the litterbox when the hood is in place (apparently they like a feeling of freedom when they do their business), so I had to use some garbage bags and duct tape to construct a curtain around three sides of the litterbox (with the ends of the curtain hanging into the box).

Mr Smith's tom is like that...not that he pees backwards, but he won't use the closed box and misses from the uncovered one. 

[Miss Mia]

They can, but in cold weather some people feel as though it isn't right to toss the cat outside.

My cats don't go outside, they could get run over and there's a lot of dogs in the neighborhood. 

[delilahmused]

Mr Smith's tom is like that...not that he pees backwards, but he won't use the closed box and misses from the uncovered one. 

Most of mine go outside, even in winter. The ones that don't won't even go in an open box. One in particular insists on his privacy. You wouldn't think a cat would care.

Cindie