Cat messes causing havoc - your stories, please

[krazyaboutkatz]

When my RB Starr was still around and before his IBD/Colitis was under control, I had to clean up piles of diarrhea on a daily basis. Sometimes it would also be all over my walls. It wasn't his fault because he had a medical condition.

Ziggy needs to learn how to hike her butt up higher while she poops. Several times she's gotten poo all over her bottom and then this causes her to do what I call the "butt scoot boogy". She'll drag her bottom on my carpet and make a long poopy skid mark. Then I have to chase her around to try to give her butt bath. She'll turn into a wild cat and will start growling and hissing at me. I now try to keep her fluffy bottom trimmed so it's easier to stay clean.

Alani and Blaze learned how to open up all of my lower kitchen cabinet doors as well as my bathroom cabinet doors. They would have a great time pulling out everything that was in there like napkins, trash bags etc. They also love to play with kleenex and toilet paper too. I later had to buy child safety locks and put them on all of these doors. Sometimes they'll still try to go fishing and pull some things out. I have to keep all paper and plastic products out of their reach. They also learned how to open up the trash can and they'd get garbage all over the my floors. I now have to keep the kitchen garbage can in my second bedroom with the door closed. Yes, they're double trouble but I still love them. This is the reason why they aren't allowed in either of my bedrooms.

[Chatanuga]

When he was a kitten and came home to my place, Casey had an obsession with water.

At the time, I had a waterer that was like a cat water cooler. It was basically a half-gallon tank that got turned upside down into the base from where the cats would drink from. While he and Chessie drank from it, bubbles would go up into the tank as the water level came down. It worked fine until Casey decided to make bubbles without drinking water. You guessed it. He would paw the water out of the base of the waterer.

One of the worst incidents from this was when I was getting around for work one morning. I went down to the kitchen to find Casey since I was about to leave and needed to get him in his kennel since it was when I kept him and Chessie separated when I wasn't home. As I headed towards the kitchen, Chessie came running past. The important thing to know about that is that Chessie was Casey's lookout. If I was going to head into the kitchen or someplace where the cats were and Chessie came running past, I knew that Casey was causing trouble. That morning, I got to the kitchen doorway and saw that Casey had emptied the entire waterer on the kitchen linoleum. It might have been only a half gallon of water, but it was covering a huge portion of the floor. And right in the middle of the puddle was Casey, completely drenched from head to tail and all happy as could be.

Everybody at work got a laugh when they found out why I was late.

[Lizzie]

I have really enjoyed reading these stories, and thank you everyone for sharing. I also ended up putting safety catches on all my kitchen cupboards and drawers because, many years ago, my Artful Dodger used to pull them open and other cats would get in (and Loki would pee in them!)

Well, Chatanuga, I had an incident last night which was very like yours. Zazesh sleeps on the bed all day and I have a long chest pushed against the bed, at the same level, where he has extra food and drink. Of course, he's very disabled so it's hard for him to turn himself into a position where he can get to the bowls once he's sunk himself into the cozy covers, but it's worked out so far. However, I got home last night to find he'd pulled the heavy bowl of water over into the bed from the chest and had soaked comforter, blankets, throws, everything. It took about hours to do laundry, clean up the mess, dry out the comforter, etc.