teaching stray to use the litter box

carabean

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We have a neighborhood kitty who we feed and and another neighbor gets him his flee shots. we let this kitty into our home, he stays the night with us a lot but he will not use the litter box. he meows for us to let him out, he runs out and does his business and is right back on our door step 5 - 10 minutes later.... THANK GOD, he doesn't go where he's not supposed to (in the house on the carpets) but we would like to train him to use the litter box.... but we havent' been very sucessfull... we have gotten him his own box - BRAND new, now other kitty scents (we have two other kitties). We have put him in there to show him where it is, and he meows and runs away each time we do that.

do any of you have any suggestions?

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What you may want to do is put some potting soil in the litterbox instead of litter. You would need to buy the soil from your local garden store (do not grab the dirt from outside as it could have bugs) and see if that works.

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