Max is still cracking me up

gingersmom

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Lately, he has decided that the 4 inches of litter I keep in the boxes just is NOT enough to cover his "business."

So he spends at least a full minute or so standing in the doorway of the litter box scratching repeatedly at the side and front walls and ceiling of the litter box, PLUS he scratches at the AIR in front of the opening, as well as the edge of the opening itself.

Quite the fastidious little man I have there!


I keep trying to tell him that scratching air over the area won't make much of a difference, but he seems to feel that it does!
It's soooo cute!


Do any of your cats do this, too? I know Max can't be the only weirdo cat on TCS!
 

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My cats scratch at the walls, floor, air, after using the litterbox. I believe this is to clean litter off their paws.
 

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Cello stratches everything but the litter to cover his mess. He spends at least 10 minutes doing this.

Benson throws the litter out while covering his business.
 

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Nikita builds pyramids in the litterbox. She'll dig and move almost all the litter into one corner and it'll be in a huge pile. That's not enough though. After that she usually scratches at the floor in front of her litterbox or goes half into the other litterbox ( have two open ones for her) and scratches there too. It's quite funny really.
 

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Abby won't cover her business on a regular basis. I have seen her do it about 2 times in total in the 9 years that I have had her.

Usually she tip toes in and perches with 3 legs on the corner of the box, with one leg in the litter (standing on tippy toes), then she leaps out and manically washes the foot that had to stand in the litter!

However, sometimes she will leap out and jump into the bath tub and proceed to scratch the side or bottom of the tub as if she were burying her business. Not sure why she does that
 

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Originally Posted by Crazyforinfo

Cello stratches everything but the litter to cover his mess. He spends at least 10 minutes doing this.
That is Much exactly. She will work and work and work, but in the end, nothing is covered.
 
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Originally Posted by Natalie_ca

Usually she tip toes in and perches with 3 legs on the corner of the box, with one leg in the litter (standing on tippy toes), then she leaps out and manically washes the foot that had to stand in the litter!
OK, most of the posts so far have gotten me smiling, but this one made me


 

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Yup. Harley does this too


He seems to only do this while we are in bed, or going to bed. The other morning, at 4AM, he did this for about 5-10 minutes straight. I was going insane because the litter boxes are in our bedroom.

The other night when we got home from work he was scratching at the side of the litterbox, and I asked him if he was looking for the handle to flush

He meowed & me and hopped out
 

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Chip does this, too - scratching at the sides of the box, etc. often doesn't cover his solid wastes... but i'm happy as long as he deposits them in the box & not on my bed
Java builds the pyramids in my fur-family, & Pixel is the dainty one - 2 front feet on the back of the box [flat surface about 4 inches wide] & 2 in the box while she goes.
 
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Originally Posted by babyharley

The other night when we got home from work he was scratching at the side of the litterbox, and I asked him if he was looking for the handle to flush

He meowed & me and hopped out
Oh, Kenz, that's hilarious!
 

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My two goofballs do this kind of stuff too...Stan scratches like a maniac on the side of the litter box, then rubs his paws daintily on the mat in front before "pussyfooting" his way out. Bella seems to enjoy leaving a decoy pyramid of litter outside the box
 

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Popsie likes to scratch the litter out of the corners of the box. He covers his piddle but not poo and he walks all over everything. DH and I were laughing at him the other day. DH says due to old age he probably doesn't know how to use the litter box right anymore. We shouldn't tease the old guy but we can't help it.
 

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Yup, incredibly familiar! All the kitties spend FOREVER trying to cover up their poos. Scratch, sniff, scratch, sniff some more, scratch scratch scratch some more (at the air and side of the litter pan), sniff some more.

Smudge is the worst. She spends forever scratching, and doesn't even remotely cover it. We always have to help her out
 

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Radar actually drives me slightly insane with this - he is very very fastidious about covering absolutely every trace of his doings, he covers up after himself and he covers up after Sonic (who as the very dominant cat tends to leave his poo sitting on top of the litter
).

To Radar, it never quite seems as if the job is finished, he's a litterbox perfectionist. He scratches at the litter until it's all covered, and then stops to examine his handiwork. He will then start waving his paw around in the air, go and fetch things to put on top of the litter (I'm running out of socks and he once pulled the curtains down and dragged them into the box!!!!) He's also managed to gouge huge chunks of wallpaper off the walls near one of the boxes


The funniest thing is if Sonic goes over to see what on earth he's up to - I have seen Radar grab Sonic with his paw and try to put him in the litterbox too
 

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While I was cuddling Butzie when we brought her home from the shelter, my enginerd husband (married for 25 years, can say that) went to the pet store to buy her "things." He came home with a motorized, self-cleaning litter "box." Butzie never buries anything. She figured out the machine does it for her.
 

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Originally Posted by Epona

Radar actually drives me slightly insane with this - he is very very fastidious about covering absolutely every trace of his doings, he covers up after himself and he covers up after Sonic (who as the very dominant cat tends to leave his poo sitting on top of the litter
).

To Radar, it never quite seems as if the job is finished, he's a litterbox perfectionist. He scratches at the litter until it's all covered, and then stops to examine his handiwork. He will then start waving his paw around in the air, go and fetch things to put on top of the litter (I'm running out of socks and he once pulled the curtains down and dragged them into the box!!!!) He's also managed to gouge huge chunks of wallpaper off the walls near one of the boxes


The funniest thing is if Sonic goes over to see what on earth he's up to - I have seen Radar grab Sonic with his paw and try to put him in the litterbox too
OMG!!


this is hilarious!
this would drive me crazy though...
 
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