April 29, 2024 Monday--5am

Good morning!

Well, the kitty litter saga continues.  We left you with her old stainless steel litter box being covered with the pine pellets.  It had a layer of her old litter underneath the pellets and she was using it.

Meanwhile, baby cottontail bunnies have parties on the patio every night.  It is too dark to get pictures most of the time.  There have been up to three bunnies at a time playing out there that I have seen.  They finish off the round orangish seed none of the birds seem to like much.

The new litter box arrived.

Really nice big box!

I didn't realize that the pellets Tidy Cat sells for these are PLASTIC.  That's why they need the pee pads underneath in that drawer.  But when you use the wood pellets, the pee turns the pellets into sawdust.  It truly is like a kitty compost toilet and that is why Dagan didn't need to use the pee pads.  Leah told me.  It isn't mentioned very clearly in the information online or on the box.  I can feel through the bags the pellets came in that they are hard as a rock and are likely plastic.  Anyways, I won't need to use the pee pads...which will save money.

I can't remember for sure what the full moon was called this month--(pink moon?)--but it was very bright.

Silly Allie still plays with her water.

I have seen no ants in the pantry for many days, but still have them in the bathroom where they first arrived.  I keep feeding them the peanut butter and borax.  Leah keeps forgetting to bring/send borax over.  What I have may be a little weak in proportions but I think it must be working...or just keeping them well fed--lol!

It has been so dark and cloudy out the partridges have been here during the day...

...and the baby bunnies, too!  

Been raining off and on since last Thursday night.  Supposed to likely continue through this Wednesday.  It is light and drizzly, but the whole world is greening up in delight.

Friday Dagan and the boys came by.  Dagan helped me switch the litter boxes and brought out all the trash for me.

I figured I was in the clear because Allie had been going in the box just fine with all the pellets in there--so I went for it.

Even got a new scooper.

Reviews said it worked with pellets.  And it really does.  The pellets can fall through the wider wire in the back really easily.

Allie pooped in the box on Saturday--woohoo!  

Meanwhile, I had an allergy week again.  But with all the rain it had settled down some by the weekend.  So, besides the usual cooking, baking, laundry, dishes, letters, and the like...I made it into the studio to play with some watercolors.  Just made multi-colored blobs and left them to dry.  Plan to doodle on them.

Then Sunday...the smell of cat poo drifted into the living room.  Good, I thought, and went to the pantry to scoop...nothing there in the new litter box!  Followed the scent...down the hallway...into the bedroom...

...and she had pooped under the table rather than in the new litter box!  

I cleaned and scrubbed it and sprayed with this zero odor spray I had left over from sick days with Karma and Annie before they passed.  Shut the door to the bedroom...

...and to the studio.

I took her old litter box that I hadn't scrubbed out yet and plopped it on the floor next to the new one.  If she misses it so badly so can use it bare.

Now I wondered if she peed anyplace else in the apartment?  I looked everywhere but didn't find any wet spots or smell anything.  But, then again, would I smell it with this runny nose?  Well, I could smell the poo--lol!  Will be easier to find after cutting her off from access to the bedroom and the studio.    

As you know I have written the weekly blog on Sundays to post early Monday mornings for a while now.  So it is actually Sunday afternoon as I am writing this.  I will be sure to update any developments on the litter saga before I go to bed.  

I do love cats so very much, but there are times...grrr!  LOL!  But this time, unlike when I let Annie win so easily, we want both cats using the same system before I move.  Blink has used the pellets for years.  I took it slowly and added the pellets to Allie's regular litter now for a couple of months, I think.  Increased slowly and all of that.  The wood pellets are sooo much cheaper and easier.  I know cats prefer to have something easier to dig in--so Blink might reject the pellets if we have both available, you know?  We need to make the switch with this old lady cat.  (Allie's somewhere around 9 or older.)  If you think teaching an old dog new tricks is hard...try an old cat--LOL! ;)

Allie.  Allie.  Allie.  

This battle has just begun.  

Anyways, McFamily is on the mend again.  Still drizzling outside.  Allie is curled up in my lap.  Being lovey because she knew I was upset with her.  Wants to know we are okay.  We are.  For now--lol!

I will probably get me some drawing pens and bring the art journal out here to doodle on tonight.  If I do, I'll add a picture.  Not because it looks good--more as proof that I actually do have enough extra energy sometimes to play around with art again--ROFL! ;)  And THAT is exciting to me. :)

That's it for this week's adventures.  Till next time...  :) :)

Okay--Sunday night--midnight...

I was doodling away...

...when I saw Allie squatting in the corner of the pantry!  Yes--she peed in the corner!  

I cleaned it up--plus the bottom of a couple pairs of shoes.

Things are not going well.

I put a small amount of her old kitty litter in her old litter box--so they are both there right now.

We are on the outs...needless to say.  

Hate to end on a bad note, but this is how the switching litter adventure is going.  Annie was older, too, when we tried switching her.  Blink was a young cat and adapted quickly.  Not sure if this is going to work.  

Boy!  Am I ever glad I shut her out of the other two rooms.  

Well, I have to go spray the zero odor stuff all over that corner...and double check the donation box that was sitting on the floor, too.  *sigh*