I have two cats, brothers, and they both have very strange litter habits. They were strays so maybe that's why. They are almost 2 years old.
They take a while to find a spot to "go." Lots of digging and turning around. It took me a while to put two and two together and understand why my litter wasn't clumping and why the smell of ammonia was so bad and so strong all the time. After they are done, they sometimes spend upwards of 10 minutes in the box scraping and covering and scraping some more. Like the urine and/or feces is long covered but they just keep digging around and covering and scraping. The problem is that this breaks up all the urine and turns it into wet sand and distributes it among the other litter. I can no longer lift it out woth the scooper and it makes the litter box smell so, so bad.
I work full time so I cannot always just "shoo" them away when they are doing all this scraping to try and discourage it. Am I just SOL here? I feel like breathing in all that ammonia is bad for all of us and does not make for a very healthy litter box. The only thing I can do is a full change (where I dump all the litter out and put fresh litter in) more often.
They take a while to find a spot to "go." Lots of digging and turning around. It took me a while to put two and two together and understand why my litter wasn't clumping and why the smell of ammonia was so bad and so strong all the time. After they are done, they sometimes spend upwards of 10 minutes in the box scraping and covering and scraping some more. Like the urine and/or feces is long covered but they just keep digging around and covering and scraping. The problem is that this breaks up all the urine and turns it into wet sand and distributes it among the other litter. I can no longer lift it out woth the scooper and it makes the litter box smell so, so bad.
I work full time so I cannot always just "shoo" them away when they are doing all this scraping to try and discourage it. Am I just SOL here? I feel like breathing in all that ammonia is bad for all of us and does not make for a very healthy litter box. The only thing I can do is a full change (where I dump all the litter out and put fresh litter in) more often.