I have my first long haired cat. How do you deal with attachments (lol) after litter use. He runs if I come to help him remove the ornament he sports after litter use.

So far all we can think of is a round of jingle bells to commemorate the swinging poop that dangles like an xmas ornament.

Carole

There are 2 things I have done in the past and they work. One is to get a LARGE litter box so that they have enough room to avoid any contact with the poop, and the other is a sanitary trim. A sanitary trim is just keeping the hair on the tail, or back of the legs short enough that they don't drag it through the poop :)

I agree with Sandie. I have a semi-longhair (or medium-hair) cat, Popcorn and she gets a little trim around her 'special area' about every 2 months. It's best to get your vet to do this as you don't want to accidently cut the skin. The vet should charge a maximum of about $10 for this, if anything at all. Popcorn doesn't leave 'presents' any more and she is happy to be clean. :)

I agree with the advice about keeping the bum trimmed. Willow plucked one too many poopy-balls from her butt (the last one was disgusting, as I saw her lick it up with her tongue, and then it flew forward a couple of feet). So we trim her butt now and we haven't seen a poopy on the floor (with the exception if one of the cats gets over-excited and furiously scratches at the kitty litter, sending a poo or two flying out of the box)

Welcome to long haired cat ownership. I unfortunately had a similiar situation happen and realized I needed to get Tigger a bigger litterbox. Now he is fine.

Katie

I was having a terrible time with Purdy leaving little presents all over the carpet until I had the vet trim him about a month ago. Haven't had one since. Whoopee!

I have Persian and had a couple of times that problem with two of them . Now I get for 3 of my 4 Persian the sanitary trim and works wonder . I do have big plastic containers from wal-mart what you can get with a lid and use them as cat litter box . I don't need the lid of course for using it as cat litter boxes , but all my cats love them and mostly use them and not the original cat litterbox you buy for cats .

I have 2 Ragdolls which have long hairs by their poopy hole :wink: I have the vets trim the poopy hole area :lol3: This plus a very high quaility all natural pet food will help cause the poopy creator to poop less and pee more :nod: meaning less chance of seeing jingle bells hanging off the poopy area :clap:

Having 5 medium-long haired cats I'm amazed at how seldom that happens. My ex had a term for the cat when they would bring something with them... He called them "Turd Burglers" which totally cracked me up.

But on a serious note, getting the rear area shaved is a great idea. My vet has the most silent shaver I have ever heard and somehow when we're at the vet it's perfectly ok to shave them. I don't think I could do this at home, where they are more confident, though as they'd fight that tooth and nail.