[Scared_and_Confused]

I have this puppy and cat. My puppy is 5 months old and for some reason, she likes to sit in the cats litter box after I clean it. She doesn't eat the cat crap or anything, she just sits in it and sometimes takes her toys or on a bad day, she takes my socks in there with her! How can I get her to stop. I would put a babygate or put the litter box somewhere higher, but my cat (11 months) had broken his arm a while ago and has a problem jumping. I am working with him to gain his strength back but still nothing, although the cat likes to drink from the toilet?? I don't get my pets... and suggestions?

[labman]

Is this a covered litter box? Perhaps once you clean it out, she finds it a nice den. Maybe a crate will work better with her than in this thread, https://www.askmehelpdesk.com/dogs/d...nel-79747.html Dogs that have been crated all along do very well. Many of them will rest in their crates even when the door is open. I think the plastic ones give the dog more of a safe, enclosed den feeling. They are harder for dogs to open too. Metal ones can be put in a corner or covered with something the dog can't pull in and chew. Select a crate just big enough for the full grown dog to stretch out in.

The best way to keep a dog from drinking out of the toilet is to keep the lid closed. Should work fine on a cat too. Maybe try to provide water dish the dog didn't slobber in. How big is the dog? Could the cat's stuff be put inside a box with an entrance too small for the dog? My daughter had a small dog door in her bedroom door to allow their Lhasa mix to retreat from their growing Lab puppy.

[Scared_and_Confused]

I do have one of those litter boxes that have lids and a door, my puppy is a Lhasa Apso mixed with Jack Russell Terrier (thats her picture I have there) so she is still fairly small. The cat has his own food and water bowel my cat is longer and taller than my puppy so if I made an entrance smaller to the litter box then the cat may not be able to fit in it (he's not the brightest cat around I could go on with stories this cat has done) My puppy is not crate trained, when I got her she was in a pet carrier screaming and whinning, aparently those people left her in the pet carrier for a few days without taking her out and the carrier kept falling on the floor and they would leave it there, poor thing. I will keep trying to remember to keep the toilet seat down. My pets are just very strange.