I’ve got my boy back - yay! He was only gone for a day, but I miss him when he’s not around to say hello to.

The cats gave us a hint that we need to buy more cat litter. We got home to find that the tray had been used, and since there wasn’t much litter in there, it didn’t quite absorb much. This was evidently distasteful to them (and to me, being one of the litter monitors in the house), because as I was cleaning it up, and putting what little we had left in the box, I heard a scrabbling in another part of the house.

We don’t have two litter trays.

Then I thought, ‘oh bugger, the stones from the aquarium!’ M used to have stones in the bottom of his tank, but replaced them with sand, so the stones have been sitting in two buckets next to the tank for quite a while now.

I went over there, and couldn’t tell straight away whether she’d actually gone in the bucket, or was just scrabbling around. There was, however, moisture on the floor around and under the buckets :/ While we were cleaning it up, we saw a wet patch in one of the buckets, so she did take a wizz in there. Lovely.

On the one hand it’s annoying because taking a pee in aquarium stones is just not on, but on the other, I sort of admire her for finding something that was similar (to her at least) to her cat litter to pee in!