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| krbrown@rocketmail.com |
Posted - Jun 14 2010 : 06:38:21 AM
How can I keep my indoor/outdoor cat from using my neighbors sandbox as a litter box? My neighbor isn't willing to cover the box. I have tried training the cat to be indoors only but it isn't working. |
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| Annab |
Posted - Jun 15 2010 : 03:39:58 AM
You might want to do a google search on Toxoplasmosis, memorize some of the key facts and then pay a visit to your neighbor about please covering the sand box.....no matter who has cats or not.
If it were me, I'd even make an offer to pay for a portion of the lumber or part of a tarp.
Even raccoons have been known to deficate in soft substrates like that too...so double gross!
That is utterly disgusting.
I can still remember plaing in my own sandbox and coming across cat feeces. We had an indoor/outdoor cat as did our neighbors, so it really was hard to tell. |
| msdoolittle |
Posted - Jun 14 2010 : 07:15:28 AM
I agree. She really needs to keep it covered! Kids can pick up all kinds of nasties out of a sand box that is being used as a neighborhood communal litterbox!!! I'm thinking of toxoplasmosis, hookworms, etc. Ugh.
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| City Chick |
Posted - Jun 14 2010 : 07:01:52 AM
I was going to say the same thing. Yours isn't the only cat using it. It would be safer for her children if she were to keep it covered.
Maybe this would be helpful to give her: http://www.wormsandgermsblog.com/sandbox%20april%2014%2008.pdf
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| sherrye |
Posted - Jun 14 2010 : 06:53:03 AM
we have 2 sand boxes and both need to have covers. we have no cats. we do have neighbor cats come in here. i bet yours is not the only cat using the box. they do not know the difference. looks like a big potty box to them. sorry you have this issue. i have no solution except a lid on the box. happy days sherrye
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