Nice People Thread Number 10 -the official residence of Nice People

neverdespairgirl

Why do you need cat litter at all, LIR? Don't all of yours wander around outside anyway?

lostinrates

The link kept collapsing for me. But now it opened the door of swatches is fabulous, the outdoor cat walk is an amazing solution for indoor cats, really fabulous, and the icicles are beautiful.

lostinrates

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

Why do you need cat litter at all, LIR? Don't all of yours wander around outside anyway?

Yes, they can go out, but they come in at night.

Why litter?

Because its the best way to monitor health in domestic cats, to see that what's coming out is normal in amount and consistency. Cats get I'll quickly, and that's the first sign of many things, particularly in cats that hunt and roam, and can make all the difference.

In cats in more built up areas its just, IMO, more neighbour friendly to use litter trays because then your neighbours aren't gardening in your cats poop.

Ours do widdle and occasionally poop outside, especially the pink, but mauve squeaker hardly goes out at all these days, and pink often comes home for the loo then goes out again :rotfl:.

zagubov

Some of the best house ideas I've seen are more modest. One was a pair of bunk beds separated by a wall so they became built-in cabin beds in different rooms.

Or having separate toilet and bathroom which is part of building regulations in Japan I think.

michaels

zagubov wrote: »

And swimming pool balconies are old hat according to this photo.
http://geographyfieldwork.com/GoogleStreetMaps.htm

The thickness of the floors seemed to indicate the pools coundn't be more than a foot or two deep....

I thought the table with swing chairs looked especially practical, and I didn't really expect the pit under the dunny to look so dry....

neverdespairgirl

lostinrates wrote: »

In cats in more built up areas its just, IMO, more neighbour friendly to use litter trays because then your neighbours aren't gardening in your cats poop.

Ours do widdle and occasionally poop outside, especially the pink, but mauve squeaker hardly goes out at all these days, and pink often comes home for the loo then goes out again :rotfl:.

Fair enough - Just wondered, because all the cats my parents have had have been going-outside-cats, and only had litter trays after operations or similar, or in very old age.

Yossie, who boards at my parents' place, has a litter tray in the scullery (where he sleeps overnight, unless he's out) because he can't get out on his own there, no flap. But he very rarely uses it. He can't be allowed in the rest of the house, and he tries to sneak upstairs and wake people up if he wants something. And he can be very, very loud, and remarkably persistent. Simon's Cat has nothing on an early-morning (think 4am) and peckish Yossie.

lostinrates

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

Fair enough - Just wondered, because all the cats my parents have had have been going-outside-cats, and only had litter trays after operations or similar, or in very old age.

Yossie, who boards at my parents' place, has a litter tray in the scullery (where he sleeps overnight, unless he's out) because he can't get out on his own there, no flap. But he very rarely uses it. He can't be allowed in the rest of the house, and he tries to sneak upstairs and wake people up if he wants something. And he can be very, very loud, and remarkably persistent. Simon's Cat has nothing on an early-morning (think 4am) and peckish Yossie.

Yes, many cats don't get given them. But its a really good idea to even for rural cats, as a health monitor.

Like with babies, you know what's going on before they can talk by adding up demeanour with contents of nappy sometimes.

You get clues like urinary infections, renal failure, diabetes etc etc much earlier if you know roughly what to expect and notice a change.

Soonest noticed, least damage done, soonest fixed.

neverdespairgirl

FOrtunately for me, I have a cast-iron get-out-of-jail-free card in relation to cat litter ATM - it's one of those things you are banned from being anywhere near if pregnant. A ban that most women don't argue with too much, I imagine.

dryhat

I like the wall that plays music when it rains and the slide on the spiral staircase.


(Strictly speaking a spiral staircase is not a spiral. It's a helix. So those things should be called helical staircases)

lostinrates

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

FOrtunately for me, I have a cast-iron get-out-of-jail-free card in relation to cat litter ATM - it's one of those things you are banned from being anywhere near if pregnant. A ban that most women don't argue with too much, I imagine.

Yeah, but loads of women have too.....( we got a lecture on this sort of thing once I remember). There are certain professions ( and situations) where disposable gloves, super hygiene about cats and other basic health stuff is important. Particularly because you might not know you are pregnant Initially if say, working in a vets.

Here I'd still have to do trays but would be super hygienic about it. I cannot wait to get the trays somewhere else and contained tbh. I've never smelled our trays before this house but here