MamaToAiku
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Aiku (about 4 years old, adopted when she was around 1 year old) has a big spot all to herself in a back room (she's been living there for almost a year now). It's basically just a corner of a large room that's fenced off. Her large cage fits in there and the door stays open. It's mostly concrete and has a carpeted spot. Honestly, I don't get her out often enough to play with her, but I'm working on that.
She gets a quarter cup of pellets twice a day, a handful of fresh vegetables, and of course unlimited hay. It occurred to me shortly after moving into this new house that I could put her hay in a cardboard box on the floor rather than the various contraptions I had tried that attached to her cage and made hay fall everywhere. She seemed very happy with this arrangement until a couple of weeks ago when she started pooping in the hay.
She has always been very good at going in her litter box. Even at the animal shelter where she didn't have a litter box, she always went in the corner of her cage, so it was easy to train her. We use regular cat litter (the cheapest you can find so that it doesn't have blue crystals or clumping). I did notice a few months ago one of the cats started going in and laying in the box of litter, but Aiku didn't seem to mind (when the cat went into her cage, she nipped at him, so that she definitely minded). They just kind of lounged around together, which seems normal to me because when we first got Aiku, we had different cat and Aiku and that cat used to lounge on our bed together all the time.
Aiku has had issue in the past with urinating to prove dominance. She used to spray on my husband's pillow (only his) and that's why she stopped being allowed on the bed.
So after her pooping in the hay box to begin with, I threw that one out and started a new one. That was just over a week ago and she didn't poop in the new one at all until now. Most of the hay I put in it is gone now, so maybe that's why she decided to start using it as a litter box?
She is spayed. Cats are neutered.
She gets a quarter cup of pellets twice a day, a handful of fresh vegetables, and of course unlimited hay. It occurred to me shortly after moving into this new house that I could put her hay in a cardboard box on the floor rather than the various contraptions I had tried that attached to her cage and made hay fall everywhere. She seemed very happy with this arrangement until a couple of weeks ago when she started pooping in the hay.
She has always been very good at going in her litter box. Even at the animal shelter where she didn't have a litter box, she always went in the corner of her cage, so it was easy to train her. We use regular cat litter (the cheapest you can find so that it doesn't have blue crystals or clumping). I did notice a few months ago one of the cats started going in and laying in the box of litter, but Aiku didn't seem to mind (when the cat went into her cage, she nipped at him, so that she definitely minded). They just kind of lounged around together, which seems normal to me because when we first got Aiku, we had different cat and Aiku and that cat used to lounge on our bed together all the time.
Aiku has had issue in the past with urinating to prove dominance. She used to spray on my husband's pillow (only his) and that's why she stopped being allowed on the bed.
So after her pooping in the hay box to begin with, I threw that one out and started a new one. That was just over a week ago and she didn't poop in the new one at all until now. Most of the hay I put in it is gone now, so maybe that's why she decided to start using it as a litter box?
She is spayed. Cats are neutered.
cat litter is bad for them, but i mean... these things sometimes cant be stopped, only counter measured. Id just put the hay in a rack, where they cant aim at 
