Litter Tracking Tricks I Learned After 40 Years With Cats (My Floors Stay Clean)

The Cat Room Manual, my 46 large-print lessons on living with cats, and a free chapter: margieknowscats.com Sweeping litter out of the hallway every morning makes it easy to blame a messy cat, but Margie says the cat isn't the problem, and neither are your housekeeping skills. After forty years with cats and twenty at a county shelter, she walks through eight changes she made, from how often she scoops and how deep she fills the box to the size of the box, the grain, the length of the mat, and where the box sits. You'll learn why damp litter sticks to paws, why a doormat-sized mat gets cleared in one hop, and why a long runway out of a corner works better. She also covers having a groomer tidy the tufts of fur between a long-haired cat's toes, keeping a brush by the box, and why a cat who rushes out may not feel safe. She is not a vet and says so, including when a change in your cat's habits means a call to the vet. Her one idea is that you can't stop litter leaving the box, but you can decide where it lands. 0:00 Floors you can walk on in socks 1:53 1. How often I scoop 3:23 2. How deep the litter goes 4:37 3. The box size and sides 5:46 4. The grain 6:56 5. The runway mat 9:00 6. Where the box sits 10:08 7. Paws and a brush by the box 10:59 8. How fast she leaves the box 11:46 When it's a vet visit 12:40 My daily routine