Litter Box Rule
1 litter box per cat, per floor of your house, plus 1, cleaned every single day.
If every cat owner followed the rule there would be less incidences of rug peeing, marking, and feline idiopathic cystitis.
I have many cat owners that bring their cat to me every few months for inappropriate urination. We discuss the litter box rule and they say they just simply don’t have the time, room, money, desire, etc. So they keep coming back. One owner in particular has spent about $1,200 on her cat because it continues to get FIC. The reason she will not provide more litter boxes? She can’t afford it.
The root cause of so many feline urinary issues are behavioral and pet owners (and many vets) simply refuse to accept that cat behavior is much more complex than we give them credit for. “What does he have to be stressed about?!” is something I often hear. Litter boxes are cheap. Make your own out of Rubbermaid containers-they tend to work better anyway. It is so disheartening on my end to have a solution for pet owners that they simply refuse to take. I have put cats to sleep because the owner would rather do that than try supplying more litter boxes or cleaning the ones they have more often.
