We just moved into a house that has an unfinished basement, which is really just a hole dug in the crawlspace under the house. I live at the beach so the soil is nearly pure sand at the floor of the basement. The walls and crawlspace are sandy clay. The sandy clay has a rich smell of dirt in some locations around the foundation of the house.
Juniper is 4.5 months old. She's a wild thing and shows great promise for mousing. The basement is a prime hunting spot. I had some rewiring to do and she came with me into the basement. Unfortunately, she got a whiff of that rich dirt smell and then pooped a gargantuan poop way back in the crawlspace. I had to wiggle through the crawlspace so I could pick it up.
Now I have a dilemma. I can't let her hunt the basement if she's going to use it as a toilet. I don't mind supervising her time down there and picking up poop but I absolutely can't let her pee down there. Ideally, I would not be required to supervise her.
The only idea I have is that I can put a litter box down there with litter attractant to make her want to use the box. My only concern is that we use pine pellets as litter and the sand/clay combo is the superior substrate in every way. I could use clay litter or dirt instead for that box only, but I don't want her to develop a preference for the clay box and start refusing to do her business in the pine pellet box. >_<
Any advice? Recommendations? Success stories?
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from Pets https://www.reddit.com/r/Pets/comments/ecw66p/cat_training_cat_to_not_peepoop_in_open_sand/
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