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.

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[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.