For all of you who suggested the river rocks for the issue of Pugger using the plants for a litter box, we found an even better solution: E-collars! You know, the collars they put on pets after surgery (usually dogs). One of those around the base of the plant, and the cat can't dig in the dirt, or get to it to go! Works like a charm, although Pugger has been trying to figure out how to get to them! However, despite solving that problem, I am forced to return him to the person I adopted him from. I feel like a horrible, horrible person! Since he cannot get to the plants, he is urinating on all the dog beds in the house. Since we work with a rescue group, we have a lot of dogs and a lot of dog beds. My sister is spending the day today at the laundromat washing beds because of Pugger. I am therefore forced to give him up. There is a happy ending for him, though. He will be a 'clinic cat' at him vet's office. They agreed that he should not be further moved from one place to another, as I am his second home, unless the perfect home comes along. He will hang out at the clinic, getting all kinds of attention, and will have the run of the place. Unfortunately, the first home was not honest when they returned him, saying he was sick. He is just very hyper, which I could deal with. However, we have incontinent dogs that we have been fostering, and they pose enough of a problem when it comes to the dog beds and washing things in the house. We don't need the cat adding to it. I feel like a hypocrite, because we hate when people surrender dogs to us, or bring them back for these reasons! And now I am doing it. I wish there was something else I could do. However, I live with my sister and her husband, and her husband has had enough. Hopefully sometime in the future I will be able to have another cat, just not at this time. Thank you all for your advice and kind words.
