the kitten chronicles - part 45

Not everyone can handle change. This was proved this weekend at Chez Big Cat. I had posted earlier in the week that the new Clever Cat litter box was proving a problem for Rooney and despite me catching him making scratching motions on my chair and plunking him unceremoniously into the litter box - he never got the hang of it. That is putting it mildly. Saturday morning, I sat down and tried to read the paper all the while getting a distinct smell of cat poo. Had Rooney had another accident? But where? The Big Cat got up from his chair to have a look - and immediately uttered a piercing scream causing kittens to fly out of the room. The cause? On the chair was smeared cat feces - the rest was on my shorts. The Big Cat had failed the Princess and the Pea test miserably and had plunked himself down on a big turd.It takes a big cat to admit failure and admit it I did. I cleaned out the Clever Cat super-smart litter box and dropped it off a Goodwill (barely used). Then I picked up the $3.99 Loblaws litter box we had been using and reinstalled it in its rightful place. Harmony has been restored in the household. Rooney happily kicks the kitty litter all over the floor - but he uses the litter box. "The world is so big and we are small", goes the kindergarten adage "change is bad". Rooney is a Luddite just like the Big Cat. xxxdad