Full Amber Stage

Hello!

Updates from Lee in the amber stage.

Yesterday I came home and, as usual, Lee was waiting for me to get home to use the toilet. She hopped up, smelled the LK and went down, meowing and complaining about something.

I came close to the LK and felt a strong smell of urine. It was coming from her cardboard (as usual). I tried to clean it with hot water, but the cardboard was somehow soaked in urine. I removed the cardboard and cleaned the LK with hot water. Since I did not have more cardboard at home and because I am a bit tired of changing and cleaning these cardboards (it's been 2-3 weeks already!), I've decided not to put it back on and leave Lee in full amber mode.

First thing Lee did was to put her head and half of her body through the hole of the LK and drink water from the toilet. She loves doing this. Sometimes I think she has difficulty to pee in the toilet because she thinks it's her water bowl...

I had to put her up once or twice and then she decided to pee. She meowed and complained, but that's just how life is. She did not want to poop though.

This morning she woke us up at 6.30 AM with a very ugly meow (typical of when she wants to use the toilet). I got up twice, opened the door of the bathroom (we keep it closed because otherwise she poops on the floor when we are not watching her), and put her up the LK several times. She always starts to dig on the floor, I put her up, she smells and goes down to dig on the floor again. And this goes on for a long time, until she gives up, goes out of the toilet and I go back to bed. 5 min later she starts meowing again. I got up and repeated the process. Went back to bed. 5 min later, meows again. My boyfriend got up, open the bathroom, put her up twice until she realized there was no other way and pooped on the LK! Victory!!!

 

It's important that everyone in the household follows the same procedure to train the cat on the LK. If the cat realizes that one person does not mind if she/he does it on the floor, in the bathtub or i the rug, or is a bit slower to force him/her to use the LK, that is the person the cat will look for when it wants to pee/poop. It's obvious. Make sure everyone in on the same page in your house when training your cat! Lee often does that. She tries to make me open the door and let her poop on the floor. When it doesn't work, she goes to my boyfriend, but he does the same thing as me. So she gives up and poops in the LK.

Let's see how it evolves. Now I just want her to be comfortable enough to do her business alone in the LK. After that, I'll slowly move to the green stage.