Yuck! Changing the litter box

My 21 pound tomcat, Johnny Cat (yep you got his name right - my son named him after cat litter), is one of the most affectionate and empathetic cats I have ever known. When my son was a little guy, kitty would curl up beside him while he ran a fever and keep a watchful eye. Every breath noted and every mumble acknowledged, sometimes with kitty curled up on the pillow while keeping one paw on my son. Johnny Cat loves his family.

However, his cat box proves a dilemma. For years, I used just the plastic litter box alone without a liner, because inevetibly JC would scratch through the liner from his shear weight alone.

Recently one of my neighbors suggested a better alternative. She told me to put an old towel down in the freshly scrubbed litter box and then put the cat box liner (I use two large 13-gallon kitchen garbage liners) in as normal. I didn't have any old towels, yet I did have a couple of those rug grabbers that I had picked up at a local garage sale.

I lined his litter box with the rug grabbers, and kitty has not scratched through the lining again. It seems that the old towel or anything that kitty can get a grip on, will keep the cat from shredding through the liner. Yippee! Problem solved.

Reverse the litter box liners as you pull them out of the litter box and have a third bag ready for disposal. I can almost guarantee that you won't be strowing cat litter all over the place when you head for the garbage can.