How often do you remove what your cats leave behind in the litterbox? Once a day? Twice a day? Also, make sure you have enough litter in the boxes.

Back when I still had Chessie and had brought Casey home, I was scooping litterboxes twice a day during the week, but I was slacking off and only doing it once a day on weekends. After a couple months, I woke up one Monday morning and found a puddle in the hallway outside the upstairs bathroom. A couple weeks later, the same thing happened. I started scooping the boxes twice a day on the weekends as well, and I never saw any puddles after that. Apparently, the cats were letting me know that I needed to clean the boxes more often.

On another occasion, I was scooping the boxes on a Friday evening. I noticed that the litterbox in the upstairs bathroom needed some more litter as it was getting low. Being tired from a long week, I decided that it would wait until morning. The following morning, I woke up, went into the bathroom to put in my contacts, and found a large bowel movement left on the floor next to the litterbox that had been used a couple times during the night. Needless to say, either Chessie or Casey had let me know what they thought of how full I kept the litterbox. I've always made sure to keep plenty of litter in them since then, and I haven't had any further issues.