Seriously, you two. Two days in a row, what the heck?
Husband and I discussed it. It isn't one of us, so it has to be one of you.
Is it you, Philip?
I took the lid off one of the litter boxes, but did I put it a little too close to the bookshelf so you bumped the cone and thought you couldn't use that box?
Or is it you, Aurora?
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| Yeah, I see you back there. You think I can't, but I can. |
Solution:
Move the litter box further away from all obstacles and put the room back the way it was. Also move the camera to the living room.
And that worked!
For almost a week.
The camera caught Philip downstairs (but not on the couch), an hour later it caught Aurora downstairs (but not on the couch), and the next day it showed us Aurora up on the couch where she definitely peed.
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| j'accuse! |
It doesn't necessarily mean she was the original couch pooper, she might have been making her own contribution to the upholstery-cleaner-and-eau-du-chat she smelled. But it seems more likely than Philip at this point.
New solution:
Take the suggestion from another Gifford volunteer to change the texture of the couch by covering it with a blanket or towels, and placing a litter box on top of the couch. (And buy better cleaner.)
It worked!
Aurora used that litter box a day or two later and did not pee on the couch.
Fun fact: at time of writing, this all happened about two weeks ago. Neither of them has been downstairs since.
Further update: after another week we had put the secondary box back upstairs where they were clearly spending all their time, but then there was another incident. Unfortunately, the camera didn't catch the culprit. Guess it's time to put the litter box back on the couch.
Aurora and Philip are fostered in Cambridge, MA through the Gifford Cat Shelter in Brighton. If, in spite of this post, you might be interested in adopting either of these cats, please contact the shelter.
