Ah, the Fresh Scent of New Cat Litter!

[jeweledvixen]

What is it with cats and fresh cat litter? Tomorrow is trash day, so I cleaned the litter box tonight. I finished filling it with new liter and turned around to leave the kitchen. There stood both cats just outside the kitchen. As soon as I went into the living room, one was in the box. Fresh cat litter lasted < 5 seconds.

I think (knock on wood *knocks on head*) that I have found a dry food that the cats will eat. It's Meow Mix with the crunchy outside and the meaty inside. I got it last Wed and they have been eating it like it's going out of style ever since. I hope this is true love because I was at my wits end. At one time last month, I had two different brands of dry food and four different brands of wet food and they wouldn't eat any of it. Here's hoping.

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[proseac]

Oh yes, they have to test out the new litter as soon as you put it in the box. It's kind of a ritual. :)

Never fun when the cats won't eat - Abby goes through phases where she'll turn her nose up at the canned cat food I serve. It's always the same brand, same flavour. But every now and then there's a batch that's "different" somehow, and she won't touch it. What a little princess! Hope your guys continue to like the Meow Mix!

[ophelias_heart]

It's a thing with the cat litter, they have to watch us change it and race to be the first in. We have two boxes though so they eat get to be the first in one.

My boys are used to one particular kind and I had Patrick pick some food up and he bought the wrong kind. Well, they just stand there and look at it. They eventually eat it, but we won't be buying that again. I even bought some treats and scattered it through so that they would eat in search of treats. It only works so/so. Good luck!

[jeweledvixen]

Yeah, I've tried that trick with the treats before. It didn't work at all. They ate the treats and left the food. :/

[ophelias_heart]

They are remarkably adept at narrowing down the different between treat and also medicine.

[jeweledvixen]

Oh, yes! Cats are very, very sneaky and tricky.

[amethyst_hunter]

Mine don't even wait till I'm done cleaning the box; they hop right in and go to work, nevermind that I'm not done scooping out their last business. I'm like, "really? you can't wait 2 minutes to take a leak/dump?" XD

[jeweledvixen]

Cats can be poop heads. ;P