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Litter Boxes

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Following on from my first post on litter box cleaning. I'd like to talk about litter boxes themselves.  These are probably number two in the hot topics list, when the discussions start up about 'why my cat is not using the litter box'.   It is another area where what we think about litter boxes, may be in direct conflict with the cat. The discussions usually talk about the type of litter box, and the position of it.  Both of these are affected by two major considerations; privacy (ostensibly for the cats), and convenience (for us, and our daily lives). Privacy, actually isn't an issue for the cat. Sure, they don't want to be ambushed, and probably don't want to be in a very high traffic area but as anyone who owns cats knows they don't have the same taboos about natural functions that we do. Cats have no problem coming to visit their owners on the toilet, nor are they particularly bothered by us visiting them when they are on their litter box. For ani