You make me smile (or laugh)-the sweet, funny, loving things my dogs do on a daily basis, that brings a smile to my face or a laugh to my lips.
Sampson and Delilah, the way you stalk Ollie and his food, hoping to be able to clean out his bowl…
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You make me smile.
Here’s the story. One of my daughters went on vacation so she brought her cat, Ollie to stay with “Grandma.”
The challenge now becomes how to keep the litter box and Ollie’s food away from the dogs.
We put the litter box in the corner and stuck a clothes rack in front of it. (I caught Delilah trying to shove her head between the racks.)
The food went into the kitchen. We put a rug sample in front of the door and held it in place with a chair.
Sadly, the best picture is the one I missed. It was Delilah trying to climb through the bottom half of the chair to get into the kitchen.
Do you have cats and dogs? How do you keep the dogs from eating the cat’s food and um..other stuff?
We only have dogs. My dogs couldn’t get on with cats; they’ve never been socialised with them.
Lucky dogs. I’ve heard that cat “candies” are even more delicious than goose “candies.” Litter box raid is definitely on my bucket list…..
Love and licks,
Cupcake
The cat box is up on the counter in the laundry room. Since it is clumping litter, it is real important we don’t grab snacks out of it! The kitties food used to be up on the counter too but now they eat twice a day since cat bro Bert would eat until he exploded if he was free fed, so there is no cat food lying around here.
When we had both (which was like for 15 years), we always had a baby gate to keep the dogs and cat food/litter apart. We would keep it high enough so the cats could go under but low enough so the dogs couldn’t. It worked 99% of the time.
LOL…it’s definitely a challenge! We have a pantry downstairs with a hole in the door that only the cats can fit through, and that’s where the kitty litter is.
Samantha gets fed on the kitchen counter, and she usually has an audience. Dogs just love cat food! They usually get to lick her bowl after canned food, and occasionally get a couple pieces of her kibble!
I have to put MK’s food on the dinning room table, if it’s wet food Gman jumps up there and eats it but he leaves the dry alone. They still snack on the litterbox.
Doors and baby gates! Although my dogs occasionally get some “kitty crunchies”
No kitties in this house so we can’t help. But Callie has been known to try to get to Shadow’s food bowl. Then there’s an argument. So, I have to stay in the kitchen to make sure Shadow can eat in peace.
Two of our children are allergic to cats, but the third one is considering getting one when she moves into her own place. I’m looking forward to getting to know a cat. I’ve never known one well enough for them to remember me. But maybe I’m dreaming if I think I’ll get a friendly greeting. After all, it’s a cat, right?
I don’t have a cat. However, I have neighborhood cats that think my front yard is like one large kitty litter box. I have to clean it regularly, otherwise as I am locking up the house, Blueberry’s leash is just long enough for her to have herself a pre-hike snack.
I wonder though…if you were to use the litter box yourself if that would deter D & S from wanting what’s in there? You never hear about dogs eating human poop (or maybe I am not in the right social circles) – so if the dogs equate the litter box with your poop – maybe it won’t be so enticing. Let me know how that works out for you.
We have kitty’s litter box in the basement and have taught the dogs to “leave it”. Her food is in the living room where they do not have access but I am sure they would eat it if given free access…lol.
Why am I not surprised that D-dog was ‘caught’ trying to get at Ollie’s goodies? I mean after all, she can get edibles from the stove and sink, right? When my OES was still alive, she was like a damn Hoover vacuum, inhaling whatever she could wrap her grubby little tongue around and she ballooned up in size big time. We had to restrict access by putting the other guys’ bowls up. They learned to eat or forever be hungry fairly quickly. 😉