Originally posted by Randy_K
Perhaps to you the laundry is fresh and clean smelling but to him it may not smell right and he feels compelled to fix it. Have you tried a different detergent, softener or dryer anti-static? Maybe a different scent or lack of scent may make the difference.
Its not the smell of the box or the mat. I've talked to others and have determined its the rubber backing. Since we've tried the other types of mat mats and found they don't work as well in our bathroom, I went back to them... and Allen went back to using it instead of his box. I wash everytthing in the same soap and he will never ever poo on a towel when its down (sometimes he goes through mats faster than I can wash them and we put down towels as a mat.) For some reason, the non-rubber backed mats don't hold up as well as the rubber and they don't protect the floor as well either. So when he's a knuckle-head (as my husband calls him) I just roll everything in the toilet and toss the mat into the hamper.

And for the record, I do intend to keep him for the long haul! He just was really bad last night! He's back to sweet Allen today. I'll post some pictures of him that I took right before my camera got sick--sometime soon.