Cat

I swear, sometimes it seems like the diabetic cat, Buttons, sole purpose on this planet is to annoy the piss out of me.  Besides her copious amounts of barfing, her routine usage of the carpet as toilet paper and her incessant meowing when she decides her food supply is getting low, she has added another annoying trick to her bag.

Awhile back Ali bought one of those automatic litter pans.  The way it works is there is an electric eye in the box, about halfway in.  This eye senses movement and after 10 minutes it will fire off the rake that combs through the clumping litter and scoops the excrement into a container in the front.  It has worked surprisingly well.  Well it has until Buttons has found a way to circumvent it. 

What she does is not enter the box, instead she stands on the very front edge and pisses right there.  As a result the electric eye doesn’t trip and the rake doesn’t go.  After she does this a couple times, a big heavy piss ball forms at that spot.  When the other cat goes in and trips the eye, the rake tries to come through but gets stuck at the boulder Buttons has created so the whole system stops.  Once this happens, the only fix is for me to break up the disgusting accumulation by hand.  It is f’ing annoying as hell.

  This morning as I was breaking up Buttons creation she came sauntering into the utility room. I turn and yell at her “Why can’t you use a litter box like a normal cat!”  She sensed the anger in my voice and knowing that she could be launched after hearing that tone, she scurried away.