Dogs Eating Cat Feces
WHY DO DOGS EAT CAT POOP, AND WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THEY INGEST CAT FECES AND/OR CAT LITTER? What happens when a dog makes a regular meal out of cat feces? Let’s add to that what happens when litter, especially the clumping kind, gets into a K9′s intestines. OK all you cat poop experts out there! This is your chance to chime in. Leave your response below!
How To Stop My Dog Eating Cat Poop
I JUST LOVE GETTING THESE LETTERS! Finding your site was a godsend! I’ve been struggling for years having both a cat and small dogs (mostly dachshund/poodle mixes) because the dogs just love cat poo. They get into the litter and dig away. Putting the litter box in our closets got old real fast, and didn’t work even when we were doing that. Case in point: One day I came home from work and opened my closet door to put my coat away. There in the litter box sat my middle dog, Sadie. She was quite thirsty, but not at all hungry. Need I say more? She had snuck in that morning when I was getting dressed, and I didn’t catch that she was still there when I left. Leaving the door open just enough for my little cat to get inside meant that Sadie couldn’t get out either. Later that evening, Sadie began to throw up violently. We rushed her to the vet where they did something to get the litter out of her stomach. I vowed I would more »
How Can I Keep My Dog From Eating My Cat’s Poop?
A recent email from a visitor to our site: I’m looking at your site, and I must be missing something. I have a little dog like the one in your video. He’s a long-haired wiener dog, and I can’t keep him out of my cat’s litter box. I can understand how a large dog can be kept out, but my dog would just follow my cat right into the Meowspace. Your endorsements are convincing, but what about small dogs? Thank you for your question. The door of the MeowSpace® is a LOCKING pet door, and it is locked shut, so your dog cannot get inside. Your cat has a collar device (either a magnetic for the Magnetic Locking Door System, or an RFID for the Radio Frequency Identification Device system) that unlocks the door when your cat’s head begins to enter the MeowSpace®. Your dog, not having a device to unlock the door, cannot enter. And our Bully Barriers™ make sure your dog cannot sneak in behind your cat. No more doggie poopie mouth! Some Topics On This more »
Acrylic Feeding Box
Clear Plastic Works Best There are many advantages to using a clear plastic feeding station. Here’s a simple history lesson on the development of the MeowSpace®: We began our quest for the perfect feeding station to separate food from one of our cats by building a wooden box and attaching the magnetic door. This worked very well, but after a time, odors became noticeable, even with constant cleaning. We replaced it several times, which began getting rather expensive, given the cost of the plywood. After several of our friends asked us to build MeowSpaces for them, we decided to try acrylic plastic. It’s clean, and the parts that needed to be glued on stuck extremely well using the special odor free glue specially made for acrylic plastics. We soon learned that the main problem with acrylic plastic was that it broke easily, and we were often replacing panels for people using the MeowSpace®. We changed to a more expensive plastic called PETG. This was much stronger, but there were still breakages. Our plastics company, Calsac Plastics, suggested we try more »
Laura Speirs, The Kitty Sitter and Kitty Counselor
Providence Happens Every now and then, without our conscious realization, the timing, circumstances and idiosyncrasies of life come together and set the foundation of our destinies. Meeting Laura Speirs in 1995 was one such example. Before telling you more about her, I want you to understand why she is so important to me, personally, and to MeowSpace®. Laura (pronounced “Lara”) is the person who introduced me to the amazing world of cats. At the time, my family was all about dogs. We had two of them, but never a cat. Over the years knowing Laura, my understanding and awareness of the feline species kept increasing in a positive way, despite my best efforts at disinterest and (yes, I’ll admit it) stubborn ignorance. Long story short, in 2006, we happened upon a 6 month old abandoned kitty. Unbeknown to us, this cat (the one in the MeowSpace® on our home page), who we named “Mitchell” after the street where he adopted us…er…we adopted him (yeah, right!), hatched his scheme to be a part of our two-dog household. It didn’t take more »
The MeowSpace® RFID Cat Feeder
The MeowSpace® RFID cat feeder / litter box enclosure works much like the magnetic cat feeder, but using an RFID collar tag instead of a magnetic collar tag. While the magnetic tag works by a slight tugging downward to unlatch the locked flap as your cat enters, the RFID tag triggers the latch to unlock electronically as your cat enters. The cat begins to push on the door, and there is a “CH” sound. They soon associate that sound with the opening of the door. 4 AA Batteries are required, but they are included in your MeowSpace® when you receive it, and we always pre-program the RFID tag before shipping. That way, all you need to do is unpack the MeowSpace®, set it up where you want it, and begin the training process. Both feeding systems work equally well. If two or more feeding systems are needed, one can be the magnetic feeder, and the other(s) would need to be the RFID systems. This is because the RFID systems can all be programmed differently. Some Topics more »
Kui in his MeowSpace®
From: Michelle Leatherman and Carol Adams, Stockton, CA Kui feels much safer eating his food in his MeowSpace®. cat stealing food | cat safety | cats needs | cat cafe
