After a weekend of mostly downs, I woke up this morning to a well used Litter Kwitter. I did what I said I was going to do and kept the downstairs litter box away from the time I got up in the morning both Saturday and Sunday, until I went to bed. The ladies tinkled once of twice each day but, it really stayed mostly unused. They would just hold their bladders until they couldn't stand it anymore or until I put the litter box back before bed. On Saturday night, there was practically a line when they all heard me open the door to my garage. They know where I put it during the day. So, when they heard that door open late Saturday night, they were all hovering around waiting until I put it back in the laundry room. I was annoyed but, still optimistic. In fact, I can't be sure about this but, Friday night, I took all three girls, one by one, and showed them the Litter Kwitter again about an hour or so before I put the litter box back. I heard a strange noise upstairs so, I went to go see if it was someone using the LK and I saw my middle child sitting at the top of the stairs. It had been maybe 10 or 15 minutes since I showed her the LK and, when I showed it to her, it was clean. But, upon seeing her at the top of the stairs, I went and checked the LK and it had fresh tinkle! One of the other cats was curled up on a chair and I didn't see the other one around. So, I think I might just have had success with my most difficult lady! I think she used it to tinkle!
So, for the most part, like I said, everyone seemed to prefer to hold it as long as they could and, the LK didn't have much use over the weekend. I did have to clean it of wiz maybe 5 times the entire weekend. Then, when I got up this morning, it was like a warped idea of Christmas Morning! I woke up to 2 piles of #2 and about 2 clumps of tinkle! One #2 was covered, the other...not at all! As explained before, covered means either my youngest or my middle child did it. Uncovered means my oldest did it! I put the litter box back last night but, after the success we had last night, I looked at it before heading for work and, there was only one clump of tinkle that I could make out. So, either no one heard me slip it back into the house last night, or the ladies are starting to prefer the Litter Kwitter over the box! They may be starting to understand that the LK is always available while the box is a fickle potty!
So, given the seemingly successful weekend we had, I decided to up the ante a bit and removed the litter box this morning instead of waiting until I get home this evening!
Fingers crossed! If things continue to go well, I might move on to Stage 2 this Friday!
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