Calling Pointy People

[purpletigron]

We still have Pointy's litter tray in the back loft, and Boofy's in the front loft. We decided to start 'weaning' Pointy over from clay litter (which goes to landfill) to composted green waste (which goes on the 'wild' garden). So I sprinkled an inch-deep layer of clay over a tray of compost.

But Pointy has gone over to depositing his packages in the fully compost Boofy tray! Pointy still widdles in his own tray, but ... why?

More information: I've noticed that Pointy never burys his packages, neither in his own tray, nor in Boofy's. So is this all a territorial statement?

In any case, it doesn't look like he's going to be bothered by having to use compost for his litter!

Comments

[del-c.livejournal.com]

Rocky never buries, but it's not territorial, he's just clueless (spends a few minutes pawing at the inside wall of the covered tray, with a look on his face as if to say, "I'm not doing it right, but I can't figure out why")

[purpletigron.livejournal.com]

Pointy seems to scrabble like crazy (judging by how he shreds the paper that his tray rests upon), but nothing covers the parcels...

[crazysoph.livejournal.com]

I'd be pretty sure it's territorial. Old Cat fails to bury her feces in her (segregated) litter box when relations with the kittens are especially stressful. The kittens tend to bury theirs, but there was the time, in the very early days, when that little bitch Jump looked straight at me as she took a dump onto the futon.

Crazy(and dotty about her "person feline-alities")Soph

[purpletigron.livejournal.com]

It's either incompentance or territoriality :-(

[lil-shepherd.livejournal.com]

Some cats like to do their solids in one tray and pee in the other, when they find two trays. Some cover their doings, and some don't. Hope Boofy does not object...

Pointy has been brought up on a variety of litters, including wood/sawdust and World's Best (wheat based) which both compost, so there shouldn't be a problem about that.

Could be worse. His baby half brother insists on peeing sitting on the covered tray opening, with his front paws outside and his rear end hanging over the litter. He hasn't missed yet, but....

[fjm.livejournal.com]

He may have picked up the solids v liquids from P who I am currently trying to train out of it on the grounds that two large litter trays for one small cat is absurd.

And baby brother? That's P's position as well. I call it "the crapping parrot"

[purpletigron.livejournal.com]

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[purpletigron.livejournal.com]

We've never had two litter trays on general access before, so I'd not encountered that behaviour :-) I think Boofy probably does object, but he's not physically protesting as yet...

The already-composted green waste solution looks to be fine, which neatly avoids the bother of composting a woody litter :-)

I'm sure I've seen other 'crapping parrots', but not of my own :-)

[purpletigron.livejournal.com]

So ... I don't suppose you tracked litter trays closely enough to know whether Pointy used to bury his as a kitten?

[muninnhuginn]

I'd go with territorial behaviour too.

We're convinced that's it proof of the little cat's ultimate dominance in face of all the big cat's squashings. She doesn't; he does (hers and his, and any puked up fur balls).

As to the two litter trays thing, I dunno. Gremlin used to do that. With three cats and two of out for fairly long working days two litter trays was a good move. 'Strophe and Mouse didn't distinguish; Gremlin would swap mid "doings".

Puzzling beasties, aren't they?

[purpletigron.livejournal.com]

If it is territorial, it's really going to .. ahem ... 'get up Boofy's nose', as he's a properly brought up 'hunting' cat.

[(Anonymous)]

The Boy throws litter around in his attempts to bury. Really throws. All over the floor.