During the period where our cats were using the laundry floor as their toilet, things didn’t seem to be improving so I followed Mandy’s suggestion and put the litter box in the corner where they were going, and it seemed to solve the problem. Bingo! I was thinking yesterday that it had worked quite well, because there hadn’t been any other incidents in almost a month. That’ll teach me for not controlling my thoughts a little better.

Last night I was upstairs websurfing, and M was downstairs watching tv. He buzzed me on the phone upstairs, and said that the cats had found a new place to go to the toilet. I tentatively asked where, and he said “the toilet”. Wow! I was really impressed that they actually used the toilet for its intended purpose (although that generally doesn’t include use by animals), until he clarified that he actually meant the toilet area, and not the toilet itself. We have a toilet adjoining the laundry, and since their usual corner in the laundry was now unavailable, they decided that they’d use the corresponding corner in the toilet.

Conveniently, M was about to leave to go to play badminton, so I was left with the happy task of cleaning it up. I came downstairs to survey the damage. It trickled from the corner of the toilet area, out the door and halfway across the laundry floor. I started wiping it all up, and then looked behind the toilet door (which is near a corner) to check there wasn’t any there, only to find a huge pool accumulated. Ugh.

So now the toilet door is permanently shut, as is the door to the bathroom nearby, just in case they get any ideas.