You set out to just put out something definitive about litter boxes and sort of Litter Box Etiquette 101. And it's just like the Alice in rabbit hole just like filled with poop instead, because you're just constantly digging and digging and digging. There's more stuff.

   Well, we're going to continue, because there is never the last word on litter boxes. Let's clarify the world.

   Your cat sees her lands in front of her litter boxes

And what you can do to help secure their lands,

Make it more convenient for them to use the litter box,

And at the end of the day, you are happy.

   Number one, that old adage is actually right.

If you have two cats, you want two-box, plus one, three

boxes. Three cats, four boxes. One cat, two boxes.

   This ensures that the cats can regionally locate the entire home, so keep those boxes outside. This leads me to the next thing.

Take them out.

I don't want to see you telling me, I have three litter boxes, just like you said. All three boxes are next to each other in a corner of the garage.

You have to put them in places of social importance. How many people have said this, cats want privacy?

So you're saying your cat wants to get into a locker disguised as a litter box. This is ridiculous.

If your cat is walking her way, she will be out defecating and peeing in a bush just outside your door to mark that area. She does not need privacy. you do.

      You don't want to look at your cat urinating and defecating in the house.

And what happens next, you put them in the clay chamber. You will put them behind the washing machine. You'll put them under the car in the garage. You will put them where you do not have to look.

    And I tell you folks, if you want to solve the litter box problems in your home, make the opposite choice that your aesthetics demands from doing. If the cat is insecure and identifies certain areas because she does not feel safe about that area, create a litter box There's something really important, because at least you can praise them for doing something right, instead of blaming them for doing something wrong.    The next thing is that I put a little box in my dining room, living room, or bedroom, just like you asked me to do. I'm upset from hell. But I did.

   What is the next thing to do?

You connect air fresheners around the object. You are removing bad odors from this litter box. This pushes the cats away.

    So there are no deodorants, and no sprayable deodorants.

I don't really believe in scented litter at all. If you are constantly removing your cat's things from the litter box, you won't have to worry about the smell.

   Now I want to bring you one more thing about preventing litter box problems. Catification is a big thing.

What is catification?

      We've talked about this before. It is an environmental enrichment for cats, but it is also an environmental enrichment that does not block your aesthetic sense of the cat. Yes, you can have things that suit your cats and work with you at the same time. Take, for example, the litter box that everyone seems to own. It is a litter box as there is a large lid on it. Then what you do is you take the hatch to the hood and face it against the wall, because for some reason humans don't like looking at trash.

    Wherever they went, they knew they could come out again.

There must be an escape route. So, if they were in that litter box with that hole facing the wall and behind them another cat, dog, or child, they definitely wouldn't be returning to a bin where they are ambushed and trapped.

    So when you look at litter boxes and how you put them around the house, you have to make sure the cats have exit routes

Everywhere.

A lot of cats have almost a post-traumatic stress reaction

to the litter box where either they were ambushed by another cat or it used to hurt to pee there. And what you're going to need to do.

    is start collecting litter boxes that look and feel and nothing like the litter box that you've been using, just because we can build a new association. Does that mean to get rid of the old one?

No.

   It means add another one. If you have a big, square, deep box, you go for something very shallow, something round, a different type of litter altogether. And you put it around the house, let them choose where I want to go, what kind of litter I prefer, what's the depth I like. And then you can slowly start replacing the boxes that were offensive to your cat to begin with. There's so much more to talk about. But here's the exciting part.

 we're going to take the questions that most are asking.

And I know I'm missing something. And you're going to fill me in on what I'm missing.

    So down in the comments section below, start writing your questions for me. I want them to be in general. I don't want to hear, I have cat who dot, dot, dot,

     because the question is going to be this long. And I've got to tell you, folks, it's not going to read. I want to have questions that everybody can relate to. And I will try to answer them all.

    You can find me on  Facebook. Obviously, you found me there.

   Until the next article, just keep your head in the litter box and keep your hands out of the litter box. Think inside the box. Think outside the box. Just get more boxes.

How about that?