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My kitten, Teddy is 12 weeks, we have had him since he was 8 weeks. He started out in a safe room in our living room, with a litter box that is in a mesh sided pet playpen with a waterproof floor (to protect the carpet and keep litter contained), as I have four other cats.
He is now at the point where he is outside of his safe room for most of the day, except overnight and when I am out. The other cats are fine with him and I even caught him cuddling with my four year old tuxedo cat. He used to refuse to use the other cats litter boxes as it was the wrong kind of litter to the one he was potty trained on, but now he has started using the other boxes when he is in a different part of the house as I started mixing the two kinds together and also put some of his soiled litter into another of our boxes so he would recognise it as a bathroom.
I dont think he needs a safe room anymore, however I also do not want to have a litter box in my living room and a playpen up permanently. Should I just fold up the playpen and move that box to a new location in the rest of the house, or would that confuse him and make him pee where the playpen once stood?
He is now at the point where he is outside of his safe room for most of the day, except overnight and when I am out. The other cats are fine with him and I even caught him cuddling with my four year old tuxedo cat. He used to refuse to use the other cats litter boxes as it was the wrong kind of litter to the one he was potty trained on, but now he has started using the other boxes when he is in a different part of the house as I started mixing the two kinds together and also put some of his soiled litter into another of our boxes so he would recognise it as a bathroom.
I dont think he needs a safe room anymore, however I also do not want to have a litter box in my living room and a playpen up permanently. Should I just fold up the playpen and move that box to a new location in the rest of the house, or would that confuse him and make him pee where the playpen once stood?