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Originally Posted by k0nr4d
Allow me to be the voice of reason. Of course you will feel all noble and shit giving the cat a home, thinking you have good karma for it, etc, but this really isn't the case. The cat will be ungreatful and destroy your home.
I took in a stray before. A vet found a small stray kitten and nursed it back to health, and I adopted it.
- It would refuse to eat dry food. If I put dry food, it gave me a look as if I shit in its food bowl. Wet food only.
- It pissed all over the house
- It scratched everything
- It wouldn't let anyone pet it
- It went into a suitcase full of cloths evidently thinking that was its litter box
- It shit everywhere
- It generally acted like a fucking wild animal.
This was the thanks I got for taking in the stray. Me, a human, the dominant species on the planet, had to live in cat piss and cat shit. Thank fucking god it ran away.
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You've got it all wrong.
A cat will avoid its litter box for several reasons. It has to be very clean of course, but what alot people miss is that they cat may be sick.
Cats can have urinary tract infections, kidney problems, crystals in its urine etc which cause it to have pain when he or she pees. It associates the pain with the litter box and then decides to go somewhere else.
Cats can also have problems with his or her anal glands. The glands normally secrete scent marking oils but they can easily get plugged up causing pain and discomfort which again makes cats avoid their litter box.
Both conditions are easily diagnosed and treated by a vet.