cat poo

Don't allow him/keep him away from the litter tray? Encourage him away from it and reward him when he keeps away from it?

You wouldn't choose to allow him the freedom to go play on a busy road, the same mindset should apply in the house :)
 
Puppy's worming is up to date - cats are indoor cats and don't have worms. Can't put littertray any where where puppy can't reach but cats can access easily. Except maybe in the bath.Always try and get to litter tray first to clean it but since I first caught him with poo in his mouth and chased he now thinks its a game.
 
Baby gate over the door where the litter tray is? Close the door? Puppy pen - either put him in it or around the tray so that the cats can squeeze though? Has the litter tray got a hood on it?

I am sure there is some way you can keep him away from it, he is a puppy, you will be needing to keep an eye on him pretty much all the time anyway for toilet training, making sure he isn't eating things he shouldn't - and if you aren't, you should be. You can also attach a light house line to his collar so you can physically pull him away from it.
 
Try a covered litter tray, you can get ones with a flap door. This works unless puppy is a small breed as I found out when I discovered my CKCS in the litter tray eating the poo!!!
I now have litter tray in the kitchen and a baby gate keeping the dogs out. Cat poo gives Lily diarrhoea. Cat is too thick to jump the gate so now spends most of his time in the kitchen.
 
amymay said:
Your friends cats are different to the OP's then, as they get to go outside.
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They are Sphynx cats, they have no hair so they go outside very rarely, plus they are almost like dogs in their need to be with humans so unlikely to go off.

Maybe the op lives on a busy road or in a flat so thats why they are indoor cats.
 
Had to google Indoor Oriental Cats which didn't help but Oriental cats are just Siamese and so on. They have hair so aren't actually indoor cats but sometimes the owner chooses not to let them out.
I was confused for a minute.
So, in order to solve the problem, let the cats use the garden and not a litter tray.
 
horserider said:
Had to google Indoor Oriental Cats which didn't help but Oriental cats are just Siamese and so on. They have hair so aren't actually indoor cats but sometimes the owner chooses not to let them out.
I was confused for a minute.
So, in order to solve the problem, let the cats use the garden and not a litter tray.
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Yes, must admit I did the same as I'd never heard of them.
 
So let's say the OP keeps the cats indoors to keep them from danger or whatever.
Therefore the OP should apply this to the puppy - the OP should be more than capable of keeping a pup away from a litter tray if they can keep their cats away from getting squashed on the road or stolen.
If the dog wanted to chew electrical cables or eat doorframes or run in front of the road etc, the dog would be in danger and the OP would be wanting to keep them out of harms way, it would just happen.
It's not rocket science, the OP just needs to be vigilant, firm and think of a solution to the problem rather than saying 'I can't do x, because of y'.
 
bananas. there is some talk of there being a lack of potassium in the dogs diet, that is why they eat poo. just a small chunk of banana each day may have the desired effect.

my dog eats cat poo and dog poo and after much research, i tried the banana trick..... the little ****** wont touch them though, so he still tucks into a fresh pile in the garden if i cant catch him in time. he loves to roll in the stuff too!
 
CaveCanem said:
I think most dogs eat poo because they are mingers, in fairness! I have never heard the banana thing, I thought you fed dogs pineapples to put them off their own poo.
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Never heard of bananas,have heard of the pineapple though.Never tried it myself(on the dogs i mean..i dont eat poo:eek:)as none of mine are poo eaters.I do however monitor all pups closely and discourage them away from poo from the beginning so that they dont start the habit in the first place.
 
CaveCanem said:
I think most dogs eat poo because they are mingers, in fairness! .
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I agree. Ours eat cat poop at every chance they get, and horse poo, and chicken poo, and sheep poo, and any other poo they come across!

We struggle at the moment as we are doing major work on the house and the dogs are always getting into the room where the cat litter tray is. We haven't even got proper doorframes yet, let alone doors, so can't put a gate up. I dream of the day, which is getting nearer, when the cat's food and tray is in the new utility and there is only a small catplap for the cats to get in and out (last time we had a larger catflap, labrador No1 took it clean off the door trying to follow the cat outside!!

We are desperately trying to train the cats to go to the loo outside. They were a year old and indoor cats when they came (6 months ago). We have converted them to cats that go outside,and they love it, but in their heads they poop in a tray, and sometimes come in, go to the litter tray and then ask to go out again!! This summer has been too wet to leave the tray out in the garden too.
 
I have basically turned my spare room over to my cat, and with the use of a stair gate the dogs are kept out of her litter tray, and her food, but she can get in and out easily. My cat doesn't generally go out that often, by her own choice... Ill leave the back door open, and have occasionally picked her up and put her out, she ambles around for 5-10 minutes then comes in again... And won't go to the loo outside, always comes in and uses the litter tray... Bloody animal!
 
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