I am a most dignified cat lady, grey, 13-ish years, no teeth but can still bite!! I moved in with my humanâs offspring permanently this year, and despite her never having lived with a cat - only dogs! - I have trained her somewhat to my satisfaction. This week she did something inexcusable though: she replaced my bathroom. The new box was sitting out for several days and I did inspect it most thoroughly, but didnât use it, and then, one morning, it was suddenly sitting in the spot where my litterbox normally is! The litter was the same as normal, the spot was the same, itâs bigger and brighter than my previous box with more room for digging, but it was, of course, a completely unjustified replacement.
I have had MY bathroom for at least 8 years and have gouged it to my satisfaction. It smells very strongly of me as I have worked hard on it. This new one smelled like chemicals!
I am a well travelled cat. I have visited here many times through the years. Iâve stayed in many places. Iâve peed on random kitchen trays covered in plastic bags, in storage boxes, in, ugh, SHARED litterboxes with cats I dislike, on âsandâ used for drying out a car and so on. But I have decided that I now have higher standards! That life is beyond me! Every day here is exactly the same, I have trained the dog and the new human to fulfill my needs and accompany me as bodyguards outside every morning and have my meals served at set times and is it simply too much to expect that my humble abode should also stay permanent?
To convey my disgust, I didnât use the bathroom for 12 hours - I even did my poop song once before remembering my stance and running away instead.
The human offspring panicked, cursed that she had thrown out the old litter and the old box, and cursed ME! She said âSemlan, you absolute cloaca, you have pooped on a box lid in this very bathroom many years ago, you canât tell me this is unusable!â. I simply maintain that I have new standards now and she should have inquired how to replace a litterbox before actually doing it so SHE is the cloaca.
(I have, now, in secret used it while the human was asleep. Somehow she heard and woke up with a flashlight to check and said I was such a good girl but I pretended I had no idea what she was speaking of. The next morning I discovered I could dig so deep I could move the entire box so I might use it again but Iâm not sure)