Little kittens=BIG MESS
For Pete's sake...how can such little critters make such an awful mess? Little poopy footprints all over EVERYTHING...who stepped in the poo? Gotta check every set of paws, and search every innocent "Who me? Not I." face. There was no damage control.
So I spent this morning evacuating the whole lot by carrier into the office, fending off curious dogs and shooing away my regular cat who I do not want to infect. Then return to the bathroom with the big guns--disinfectant, scrub brush, handi-towels, swiffer and mop, broom and dustpan...you name it, I probably had it in there with me. It took me more than 2 hours to set it all to rights. I washed and disinfected the crate, no longer needed, and returned it to my ever vigilant dog, Luna. I thought she would be happy, but she appeared crestfallen that it wasn't crawling with kittens. New litter in both pans, washed the cuddler bed in hot water, clean water and food dishes with fresh water and food, cleaned the toys as best I could and reset them. Then a nice relaxing grooming session for all kitties, introductions to the new placement of their stuff, and left them be to explore. Pretty soon I expect hear the telltale ping pong noises to begin wafting their way from the kitten habitat as they volley their toys around the more efficient space.
All is now well in kitten land, I just heard the skittering noise of a ping pong ball in the habitat. I wonder which team is winning today in the Kitten Cup.
What I learned this morning:
If you put the litter boxes inside a crate to keep them away from kitten sleeping and eating quarters, you can expect at least one kitten to manage to lock the whole group out of the crate.
No, kittens won't wait for you to wake up and notice that they are locked out of their litter boxes. They will not wish to bother you and will use the next most convenient feature of their habitat.
They will then track poo all over the entire room, necessitating a full-scale scrub of the entire quarters and of course of each kitten.
Kittens will act as though they have no idea how their habitat came to be a complete and total shambles.
No one will know what happened to the missing blue mouse.
That is all for now!
So I spent this morning evacuating the whole lot by carrier into the office, fending off curious dogs and shooing away my regular cat who I do not want to infect. Then return to the bathroom with the big guns--disinfectant, scrub brush, handi-towels, swiffer and mop, broom and dustpan...you name it, I probably had it in there with me. It took me more than 2 hours to set it all to rights. I washed and disinfected the crate, no longer needed, and returned it to my ever vigilant dog, Luna. I thought she would be happy, but she appeared crestfallen that it wasn't crawling with kittens. New litter in both pans, washed the cuddler bed in hot water, clean water and food dishes with fresh water and food, cleaned the toys as best I could and reset them. Then a nice relaxing grooming session for all kitties, introductions to the new placement of their stuff, and left them be to explore. Pretty soon I expect hear the telltale ping pong noises to begin wafting their way from the kitten habitat as they volley their toys around the more efficient space.
All is now well in kitten land, I just heard the skittering noise of a ping pong ball in the habitat. I wonder which team is winning today in the Kitten Cup.
What I learned this morning:
If you put the litter boxes inside a crate to keep them away from kitten sleeping and eating quarters, you can expect at least one kitten to manage to lock the whole group out of the crate.
No, kittens won't wait for you to wake up and notice that they are locked out of their litter boxes. They will not wish to bother you and will use the next most convenient feature of their habitat.
They will then track poo all over the entire room, necessitating a full-scale scrub of the entire quarters and of course of each kitten.
Kittens will act as though they have no idea how their habitat came to be a complete and total shambles.
No one will know what happened to the missing blue mouse.
That is all for now!
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