All right, this weekend, my family has acquired a sixth cat. (Yes, we are nuts). A little grey tabby who goes by the name of Maggie.
Said kitten is in my room for the time being, along with her litterbox. She goes in it to do her business, and suddenly, the room is filled with a stench that could gag a maggot. A stench that seems like it should belong to a prison toilet, NOT the litterbox of a cute little bundle of fur.
Maggie, Magpie, Mags, you are cute. But my god, can you ever stink up a room!
The little snot won’t eat the dry stuff. We even tried mixing it in with the wet stuff-she ate the wet stuff, leaving the few little pellets in the dish.
You would think dry food will help but not in all cases. I’ve switched mine over to dry from moist in the past week and I can still smell her sometimes when I am in the bathroom. It’s vile.
Are you feeding her the same thing she was fed at her previous home? She might be having some intestinal problems because of new food if you’re not. You might try mixing some of her old food with the new food, then weaning her off the old stuff.
But, yeah, kittens can create a huge stench. It’s really incredible that something so adorable could leave such a stinkbomb.
I’ve used this cure for stinky kitten farts with great success. Don’t know how it’ll work with stinky kitten poop, but it can’t hurt. Feed the kitten some plain yogurt (with active cultures) One serving cured my little stink bomb.
We got her from the vet’s office-they do adoptions and my mother saw her and fell in love. I figure they were probably feeding her Science Diet dry, which is what we give them. Who knows?
kittenblue, there’s an idea-I’ll have to try it. She’s also got a case of the farts-the SBDs.
It seems that for some reason, kittens always seem to have the worst smelling feces. She’s right up there with my FATHER for stinking up a room. That’s a considerable feat right there.
Am myself completely immune to any vile stench, but my partner is a dainty flower – when The Boods was a baby, her litterbox was near the bedroom, and every night, without fail, just after lights were off, she would ‘make a smell’ as they say in the No Naughty Cats book.
I would try so hard not to laugh as my partner would start to moan, and even to weep, leaping out of bed naked to grab 2 handy spray-cans of Lysol and start blasting the room and hallway with it…you know that sort of quiet laughing that shakes you to bits.
Guin, what do you mean he won’t eat the dry, will only eat wet? So from that I’m guessing this is what’s happening: You give him wet food, he turns up his nose. So he jumps into some flipflops, grabs your car keys and takes some cash outta your purse, and runs to the All Night Convenience store for a can of Fancy Feast?
What? He can’t drive? Oh, YOU’RE feeding him canned food! Oh, in that case, problem solved: DON’T!
(And if your local grocery store delivers, keep him the hell away from the phone!)
OH for godsakes, lissener, must you always be such an ass?
She REFUSES to eat the dry stuff. We tried it for the first day, and by the second evening, she still hadn’t eaten. My mother tried a tiny bit of wet stuff, and she ate it. That’s all she would eat. We keep trying to give her the dry stuff, and she refuses it, even when she’s obviously starving.
It’s not like we’re giving her poison-my other cats eat a combination of wet and dry food.
Most kittens, I’ve noticed, have really stinky poop. It happened when we got Buffy and Gypsy-and they WERE eating dry stuff at the time.
I wasn’t being an ass; I was being funny. That was the routine I used when I worked at pet store for 8 years; 2 of which I was the Cat Room manager. I’m much funnier in person; no one was ever offended. It must be the twinkle in my eye.
Some rich old white lady would come in and say her cat (or her poodle; I worked both rooms) would only eat lobster salad. I would do said routine, and she would be charmed right of of their waist-high cotton underpants.
The point is, if the cat’s old enough to eat dry foot, she WILL get hungry enough to eat whatever you give her. Period.
I think friend lissener was just trying to be funny. After watching his posting style for a while you can begin to pick up on it. Hell, I’ve even found him being funny while we knocking the crap out of each other.
The first time I read lissener’s original post to this thread, I thought he was being an ass too but after rereading it, it does seem like he was just trying to be funny with mixed results. While I did laugh at the post, it was a bit belligerent as well.
You know, I’m sick and fucking tired of this. All you assholes carry this prejudice around with you, and REFUSE to take any responsibility for your knee-jerkness. There are two participants in the exchange of information; the sender is responsible for half, the recipient is responsible for half. If you can’t admit to leaping to an assumption, and offer to accept half the responsibility for the failure of the exchange, then fuck the hell out of both of you. I write like I speak: when I speak, people laugh. I’m sorry if your prejudices force you to presume on the side of asshole rather that ever fucking once giving me the benefit of the doubt, or at least acknowledge your part in the interpretation. Obviously there’s something in my written delivery that lacks whatever it is about my face-to-face delivery that’s given me, among friends, a reputation for being extremely funny (if a bit of an insult comic).
I’m tired of taking 100% of the responsibilities for the humorless idiots that abound on this board; I will no longer accept responsibility for your prejudice and assumptions.