What affects us affects cats
Often the reason why cats join you in the bathroom is because through the scent of your faeces and urine you have advertised your presence and metaphorically given them a calling card and an invitation to come. The word ‘bathroom’ in America euphemistically means a toilet. You could rephrase the question, ‘Why do cats …
For American who don’t live with a cat (and even those who do), one of life’s annoyances is their neighbour’s cat peeing and pooping on their carefully tended backyard. We read about it quite a lot online. It is an area of domestic cat ‘ownership’ which is liable to cause friction. Another is the …
I believe that the question refers to domestic cats so I’ll confine my answer to that species of cat although the answer will be similar for other species. The first point to make is that not all domestic cats bury their poop all the time, in my experience. So we can’t generalise. This variation …
As someone said, it is the little things that make the world go round and in this case put a little smile our face. SOME MORE ON CAT POOP!
This is a cute little story which really could be told in one sentence and one photo but I have expanded on it as this form of cat behaviour is interesting. The cat’s owner (guardian) accidentally closed the doorway which provided access to her cat’s litter tray. Just outside the closed door was a …
Web surfers ask whether all cats bury their poop and the answer is a categorical No. There is a general belief that domestic cat bury their poop but this is incorrect. In fact I can remember my previous domestic cat companions using a cat litter tray and not burying their faeces. They did not …
Kittens normally don’t need training to find and use the litter tray because it will be the only usable and suitable surface in the human home for a kitten to use as a toilet. They’ll find it. Just make sure it is accessible and private.
The website “The Dodo” states in an article that the domestic cat goes bonkers after defecating. I have never seen it. In fact I don’t remember seeing any article about it until reading the Dodo article. Apparently, the behaviour is called the “zooms” or post-poop freak-outs. How common is it and what might be …
