Awright, which Lounger talked about using puppy pads for incontinent cats?!

[MorningGlow]

Come on, 'fess up. Who was it? Because I'm gonna...
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...give you the biggest :hug: you've ever had!

Why, what did you think I meant? :D

Our crazy neurotic pisspot feline has always refused to use a litter box for either #1 or #2. We compromised on the #2 by laying down sheet plastic in the small room where the boxes are, so she poos there. But we never knew where she was going to pee--her favorite places were against the front door, in the corner of the dining room, against a wall heating vent (:wtf:), under a drop-leaf table in an alcove, against an old cabinet in the living room that holds my son's toys. I considered buying a holster to hold the cleaning spray, paper towels, and Nature's Miracle, I used them so frequently.

But after reading about the pads, I picked up a 10-pack of the adult-sized ones, and the pisspot took to them immediately. Went through the first pack in a couple of days and now we're working our way through a jumbo pack. It's costing an arm and a leg, but it sure costs less than having to rip up the entire hardwood floor!

I have to tape them to the wall (gotta love the cat peeing posture) and then put one on the floor (for a nice cascading effect--the white looks lovely up against our cream colored walls), but it is so worth it to keep the pee from dripping down the wall and seeping behind the molding and into the raw edge of the hardwoods.

We've recently shifted to having the "wall-mounted pad" cascade into a litter box with another pad in there. Will this convince the neurotic one to pee in a litter box? Sigh--I don't want to get my hopes up. But this is working for now.

So...THANKS!!!

[Roon]

1. Awww, thanks for caring for your special needs kitty..

I am glad you found a solution.

[MorningGlow]

2. We always say she's lucky we took her in as a stray

Because nobody--and I mean NOBODY--else would put up with her shit (literally and figuratively). :P

[Bertha Venation]

4. MG, besides Harry...

...we have two other problem cats. One is just an asshole, but the other sometimes pees on the kitchen counter. Ugh.

But we love them, and put up with them because sending them away would never be an option.

[MorningGlow]

6. Oh, blech!

Makes you wonder how they come up with their sinister revenge plots, doesn't it? "One is just an asshole..." :rofl: Yeah, that describes Clover to a "t". She's simply a vengeful, neurotic mess. But (sigh) she's part of the family...

[Bertha Venation]

12. Daddy The Cat is the asshole

He has many nicknames, my current favorite of which Sh'thay (spelled shithead). I'm also fond of A'shollie (spelled asshole).

They definitely plot. One of ours likes to hide under the entertainment towers and jump out at others walking by. It's hilarious. :rofl:

[MorningGlow]

14. Plotting? Most definitely

After all, we know that the only reason humans are allowed to roam semi-freely is because the felines don't have thumbs. (We have to open the cat food cans.) If they evolve those, well, we're history.

[Bertha Venation]

3. I believe that would have been me...

Unless other DUers have also talked about it. I had an inspiration because Harry peed on newspapers once or twice (not by design). And like your kitty, Harry took right to them.

I'm so glad this is working out for you! Well done!

:hug:

[MorningGlow]

5. Oh yay!

Seriously, THANK YOU SO MUCH! :hug: :hug: :hug: I cannot tell you how much of a difference it's made in the household (stinkwise alone) in less than a week.

I guess we won't sell her for medical experiments now. (No, ye DUers with no sense of humor, not really. It's just the MG household's empty threat when she irritates us. We'd never harm a whisker on her fuzzy face.)

[Crazy Dave]

7. We've had to cats who would only use puppy pads

Now that they're big they only go outside. Like at 4:30 in the morning sometimes.

[lunatica]

8. Get the cloth pee pads for small dogs and you can launder them

They last for years and years. Or get the pads for beds for incontinence. They last forever too.

[MorningGlow]

9. My mother now regrets ever getting rid of the human pads (donated them)

She had tons of extras from the times of my grandparents' and my dad's infirmary. Who knew? :shrug:

[Alenne]

10. Check your local animal shelter

People donate them to the shelter. We don't use them. At our shelter we put them with the free food and litter we give out.

[MiddleFingerMom]

11. "which Lounger talked about using puppy pads for incontinent cats?!"

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Whichever one it was, tell them I HATE being alluded to with the euphemism of "cats".
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[MorningGlow]

13. Are they working for you?

:D

[MiddleFingerMom]

15. Um...

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I don't wanna talk about it.
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[applegrove]

16. if only that cat could understand how much love you are showing them they wouldn't be neurotic.

[MorningGlow]

22. Aw, that's a wonderful way of looking at it

Thanks, Applegrove. Makes me more tolerant of the pisspot--even if she is ungrateful (maybe it's just her permanently pissed-off expression--she is part Persian, after all).
:rofl:

[kimi]

17. Yeah, those puppy pads are lifesavers

When my older lady cat was getting near the end of her days and was incontinent, we put those pads all over whatever room she was in. Made us more comfortable, but much much more imprtantly, it made her happy, she didn't have to search for a litter box.

Good for you, for caring so much for your kitty's comfort! Best wishes!

[grace0418]

18. Mine uses the litterbox but his kidneys are failing so he pees a lot, gets a pool around

his back foot, then tracks yucky wet litter all over the house.

[MorningGlow]

23. Ah yes, the pee prints

We have those as well. x( Helps me track down where she left a puddle, though.

[Kota]

19. Big lots has a good price on potty pads.

My dog uses potty pads sometimes, big lot is the best price I have found.

[MorningGlow]

21. Really?

Good tip--thanks! :)

[Kota]

20. Big lots has a good price on potty pads.

My dog uses potty pads sometimes, big lot is the best price I have found.