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[โ€“] [email protected] 70 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Cat has a point. When I had cats, they ALWAYS got weirded out everytime I cleaned their box. Karmalee especially would run back into her litter box, dig around in the fresh litter, then look at me like "WHAT HAVE YOU DONE??? WHERE'S MY TREASURE???"

She wouldn't poop. Just dig around trying to find the missing poop. Then she'd look at me like a weirdo. She was very judgemental everytime I cleaned her box.

Speed on the other hand would look at me in confusion. Like ".......but why? Why do you collect the poop? What am I not getting here? Help me understand...."

[โ€“] [email protected] 26 points 2 months ago

I hope you take this the right way when I say that you sound like you have lost your mind. Please, for our sakes, don't ever find it. ๐Ÿ˜œ

[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

One of mine legitimately gets angry when I scoop his poop, and even more upset when I do a full litter change. I have to wait until he's napping so that I can get at least part way through the process before he comes to yell at me. If I'm not fast enough, he'll even nip at my feet and/or (soft paw) swat at me.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Sounds like you guys need a litter robot. It disappears, so the cats don't have time to understand what happened to it.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

One of the boxes that he gets angry about me cleaning is automatic, but it's a "PetSafe ScoopFree Crystal Classic", not a Litter Robot, so it only scoops solid waste to one side. The Litter Robots were too tall for the space I had previously, and as long as my current box works, I just can't justify something a few hundred bucks on adding another box.

I foster, so I get to see a wide variety of illnesses and learn about their early symptoms, many of which are diarrhea or other abnormal poops. My foster fail had an intussusception, likely caused by irritable bowel disease/syndrome (IBD/IBS). As much as I would absolutely love to spend waaaaay less time thinking about/looking at poop, I just don't see any practical way around it without putting the health of my cats at risk.

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

It's like how my one cat always comes into the bathroom and looks at me like I'm crazy whenever I'm taking a bath. "Why would you do that to yourself?"