My kitties, thou art so strange.

[ladyjanelly]

So.  Scooping the litterboxes today, I discovered something very strange. 

Apparently they've decided the one with no lid is the pee box and the one with the cover is the poop box. 

What I wonder is how they worked this out between them.

Comments

[albeitslowly.livejournal.com]

LOL, Mine pees in the toilet and poops in the box. I tried to tell her she's got it backwards, but she seems quite proud of herself for differentiating.

[twasadark.livejournal.com]

LOL!! Smoke signals?

[faith-mars.livejournal.com]

*lol* That's hilarious

[captcrashsc.livejournal.com]

My sister's cat Benny does the same thing and we always attributed it to the fact that he's a little touched in the head. lol The four other cats look at him like he's crazy.

[tempestquill.livejournal.com]

Wow. That's um very polite and diplomatic of them. Heh heh. Maybe when there in the proverbial kitty johns they discuss these things using kitty telekinesis? Or maybe they discuss politics and the sports page? LOL. Too cute!

[minniemax.livejournal.com]

Mine do the same thing…

[embroiderama]

Heeee! We have two boxes--have since I got Lexi--and they seem to go back and forth on which box is prefered. Often one box will be nearly empty and the other full, and I can't tell any reason why. *scratches head*

[couchemal.livejournal.com]

With the "poop only" box, my cats do the same thing, and there's a simple answer, actually. The hood on the covered catbox traps ammonia from the pee inside it, and they don't like ammonia fumes any more than we do because it burns their eyes and whatnot. They're smart enough to figure out that if they don't pee in there then that won't happen. I don't know why they wouldn't poop in the other box though.