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MetaJew posted:Maybe a long shot, but does anyone in here own a Litter Robot 3-- and have experience with the rapidly-flashing Yellow Light error? I had similar issues a bit ago. Pinch sensor wasnt bad but the pinch sensor plus full sensor kit is about $30 and the circuits for the full sensor are much more well designed to resist corrosion. Its probably worth your time to not fuss with it and just grab that kit. https://www.litter-robot.com/lr3-pinch-contact-dfi-kit.html
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Fabulousity posted:Anyways all four kitties are happy now. Really glad to hear this!  We just took our cats in for a routine vaccination update and the vet gave them another dewormer treatment, just as a precaution. No signs of worms so looks like we stamped them out. In other news one of our cats (LICKY GIRL) started eating the ends of our corn broom, so we bought cat grass which she’s chomping on daily now. I still haven’t returned the confiscated broom to its previous home though. She hasn’t been vomiting anything up either way, idk what her deal is.  No signs of an impending hairball yet…
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I have domestic shorthair(but he has a lot of it!) rear end in a top hat who seems to just always be shedding no matter the time of year, and hair is everywhere in my house. I'm constantly vacuuming it up, sweeping, washing my clothes ,etc. I want to attack the problem at the source. What's the best type of brush I can buy that will do a good job of pulling out(and clumping up so it doesn't fly everywhere) hair? I had one brush a while back, it seems to have been lost but I don't really remember it doing a good job. I think it had like metal spikes or something similar. So I don't want to buy a random one and it not work well. 
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Nov 19, 2023 20:46
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You can use a furminator every couple weeks. If you overgroom with it it can irritate the skin and maybe damage their undercoat. Options you can use daily is a traditional slicker/wire brush or an equigroomer. The wire brush is less effective but the hair gets stuck in the brush so it's a little easier to clean. The equigroomer will completely obliterate hair problems but the post brushing mess can be annoying. I usually let it build up around their rear and then wipe it away with a hand, it balls up pretty well. If you do brush daily it's going to be a huge mess at first but after a couple weeks you'll notice the brush pulling out less hair. That means you've caught up and can probably do maintenance brushing every couple days. Beyond that, it's a cat. They're engineered to endlessly produce hair.
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Alrighty, I got a furminator(use sparingly) and an equigroomer(regular use). I don't expect to be 100% cat hair free, in fact I'm very loose on what I consider "clean enough" but the cat hair is just way out of control lately. If it helps a noticeable amount at all, I'll be happy.
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Boogalo posted:I had similar issues a bit ago. Pinch sensor wasnt bad but the pinch sensor plus full sensor kit is about $30 and the circuits for the full sensor are much more well designed to resist corrosion. Its probably worth your time to not fuss with it and just grab that kit. Thanks for the suggestion. I just got an email back from the Litter Robot support people basically saying the same thing. I've put in an order for this kit. Hopefully it solves my problems!
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Hi thread. I desparately need some suggestions. My partner and I have a 3 year old extremely needy cat that we're having trouble keeping out of the bedroom. More specifically, we can keep him out of the bedroom but are having an increasingly difficult time keeping him from pawing at our sliding bedroom doors, which shake very loudly when he does so. We put up a retractable baby gate in front of the door. It's a fabric thing that you pull across and hook into place. That stopped him for a few months until he learned to squeeze under it. The gap between the gate and the door is large enough for him to fit and he can paw at the door once he gets in there. Then we started putting pillows in that intervening space so he couldn't squeeze underneath. Then he learned to climb over. Now we've fashioned this big wall out of 4 cardboard boards taped together that we put behind the gate so that he can't climb over. This has worked so far, but it is very unwieldy, we have no good place to put it when not in use, and putting it in place or removing it is very loud, and necessary when you want to exit the bedroom, say to pee in the middle of the night (the baby gate itself is low enough to awkwardly step over). This is problematic mainly because my partner is a very light and chronically poor sleeper, and this latest period of bad sleep is having a negative impact on every aspect of her life. The only pet/baby gate that might work that is both wide and tall enough is 350 dollars on Amazon so we're trying to find a cheaper solution. The design of the gate/configuration of the doorway prevents us from installing th gate any closer to the door. bltzn fucked around with this message at 06:03 on Nov 20, 2023 |
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Nov 20, 2023 05:24
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Is it an allergy thing? It's honestly hard to stop cats from getting somewhere they want to You could try one of the Velcro pet doors that stick to the frame. They zip up and down so it might be a little easier
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No, it's because he wakes us up in the middle of the night or too early in the morning. Doesn't bother me as much but it affects my partner's already poor sleep. And the thing is, he doesn't wake us up all that often, but we have three cats, and if we let one in that means we let them all in. And while no single one wakes us up that often, their combined disruptions are just too much. bltzn fucked around with this message at 06:05 on Nov 20, 2023 |
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Nov 20, 2023 05:53
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Can you wedge something in the doors so they don't noise when he paws at them?
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Can you stack two baby gates?
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kaom posted:Can you stack two baby gates? 
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bltzn posted:Hi thread. I desparately need some suggestions. My partner and I have a 3 year old extremely needy cat that we're having trouble keeping out of the bedroom. More specifically, we can keep him out of the bedroom but are having an increasingly difficult time keeping him from pawing at our sliding bedroom doors, which shake very loudly when he does so.
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Yeah I would be focusing on stopping the door from rattling, surely you can jam a towel or something in there to stop that? If cat gets ignored for long enough he will give up.
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We had a similar issue with one of our boys. I fashioned a foam board completely covered in aluminum foil that covers about 2 ft. square and attached it to the door. Pros? All he does now is meow quietly then calm down and do his chill routine. Cons? Affixing adhesive Velcro to the door may have consequences later.  Better than taping it directly to the door I guess?
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Organza Quiz posted:Yeah I would be focusing on stopping the door from rattling, surely you can jam a towel or something in there to stop that? If cat gets ignored for long enough he will give up. Why I'm skeptical about this and haven't tried it yet is the rattling comes from the top rollers hitting the track/housing it's in, since the housing is a bit too wide. I feel like stuffing something in there will prevent the rollers from rolling freely. But I guess I can try.
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Why do you have to let all three in? I usually kick out all of the cats at night and they deal, but sometimes my girl sneaks in before I lock the door and the other two don't bother until it's feeding time in the morning.
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Because we have to leave the door open in case the one guy we let in wants out to use the litter or any other reason. And he is just as loud about wanting out as wanting to get in.
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We leave our bedroom door open, and all three cats come and go as they like. Sometimes they jump up on the bed a sleep with us for a while, but they have learned not to make a fuss because we won't respond. Once the alarm goes off and we're up, they'll howl if the food dish is empty, for example, but they don't bother us while we're sleeping.
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It's not that they bother us for particularly long or frequently when we let them in, but unfortunately because of my partner's sleep issues, getting woken up once sometimes means she doesn't sleep well for the rest of the night.
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Nov 20, 2023 18:08
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can't you use one of those motion tripped sssscat devices or whatever? failing that, just get a better fitted door. it's worth even just one week of better sleep.
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the equigroomer is going very well https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qlySKQhiLU
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bltzn posted:Why I'm skeptical about this and haven't tried it yet is the rattling comes from the top rollers hitting the track/housing it's in, since the housing is a bit too wide. I feel like stuffing something in there will prevent the rollers from rolling freely. But I guess I can try. Well yeah but the idea would be to jam something in there just overnight and take it out every morning. It sounds like it would be less effort than setting up your increasingly complex fortress outside the door.
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Any suggestions for encouraging cats stubborn/indifferent to water to drink a bit more? My vet suggested if possible my guy should drink a little more water as he ages. He's on a wet food only diet and never touches the bowl of water I leave out.
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McKracken posted:Any suggestions for encouraging cats stubborn/indifferent to water to drink a bit more? Crazy your vet didn't pick up on the fact it's not running water. Cats like running water, get a fountain. You can get them anywhere but the petkit eversweet ones on amazon are good.
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VelociBacon posted:Crazy your vet didn't pick up on the fact it's not running water. Cats like running water, get a fountain. You can get them anywhere but the petkit eversweet ones on amazon are good. She did mention cat fountains as an option, I was mostly curious if there were any other alternatives or if that was pretty much the only game in town, and if so, what brands people like. Thanks!
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I use a heavy miaustore fountain that the cats can’t push over, they learned pushing over the eversweet fountain gave them a lot of water instantly
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an iksar marauder posted:I use a heavy miaustore fountain that the cats can’t push over, they learned pushing over the eversweet fountain gave them a lot of water instantly Same, invested in one the day Ferdie spilled an entire plastic fountainsworth of water on my carpet
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 meet my new children, carol and tandy. in the 40 hours since i have had them they have somehow turned on bittorrent web (??), established a hierarchy (i am at the bottom) and developed a very strict routine. all hail carol and tandy.
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it is SUPER hard to eat yogurt around them
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cash crab posted:it is SUPER hard to eat yogurt around them 
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oh, they will never know the sweet taste of greek yogurt if i can help it. side note, i've taken care of dozens of kittens through foster over the years and these are the first ones that don't smell like a bible story when they take a dump. my only beef so far is one of them tries to clean the inside of my ear while i sleep. e: i remembered a question. they're very happy to let me cram my fingers in their ears, hold their paws, etc. they don't even mind when i check their teeth, but i want to get them used to me putting my fingers in there for future brushing. two problems: a) they think this is a game where they get to chew on me, and b) their mouths are just a little too small for my to fit my finger near their gums. should i just settle for gentle touches on the teeth for now to get them used to it, or should i use the corner of a cloth or something? cash crab fucked around with this message at 21:37 on Nov 21, 2023 |
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bltzn posted:Why I'm skeptical about this and haven't tried it yet is the rattling comes from the top rollers hitting the track/housing it's in, since the housing is a bit too wide. I feel like stuffing something in there will prevent the rollers from rolling freely. But I guess I can try. You may be able to fix this by putting a thin foam tape on the surface the rollers roll on. It's a trick I used for the folding door to my AC closet in a previous apartment, and as a side benefit it will make the door rattle less in general. The Fix It Fast thread in DIY might have even better suggestions, but foam tape worked well for me.
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McKracken posted:Any suggestions for encouraging cats stubborn/indifferent to water to drink a bit more? You could try adding water to his food as well, I know some people do this even with wet food. But yeah, running water is probably the best bet. cash crab posted:all hail carol and tandy.  cash crab posted:oh, they will never know the sweet taste of greek yogurt if i can help it. Betrayal.
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I used a pet safe drinking fountain thing for a few years but I got very tired of disassembling and cleaning it, and my wife never wanted to do it. Our cats get a lot of food bits in the water so it gets dirty fast. The best advice I'd say for any drinking fountain is get the one that has the fewest parts and the easiest to clean.
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MetaJew posted:I used a pet safe drinking fountain thing for a few years but I got very tired of disassembling and cleaning it, and my wife never wanted to do it. And locate it away from food bowls.
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RE cats banging on the door. I had a similar issue and got one of those shocky mats and put it in front of the door that did the trick. Once they realized stepping on it was bad I didn't even have to turn it on anymore.
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Deteriorata posted:And locate it away from food bowls. This is definitely true. I never figured out a good other place to put the water. I just put out a bowl that the cats drink from and wash it fairly regularly. I think the cats also drink out of the dog's water bowl, occasionally.
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i also found that leaving cups of water around the house helps, too, but that can get irritating depending on how much work you want to put in. but there is that classic complaint of, "they won't drink from their dish but they will drink from the water on my bedside table" i have taken advantage of a few times.
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poo poo Fuckasaurus posted:You may be able to fix this by putting a thin foam tape on the surface the rollers roll on. It's a trick I used for the folding door to my AC closet in a previous apartment, and as a side benefit it will make the door rattle less in general. Thanks, didn't even think of this. Will give it a try!
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