2007-03-09 04:12:21 · 8 answers · asked by puckit11 1 in Pets ➔ Cats
Please understand I know it is natural, but cats can easily urinate and cover it up in other places in the house, but they don't. I'm looking for an actual answer, not your guesses.
2007-03-09 04:49:26 · update #1
Because it's instinct. Cats want to cover up any evidence that they were there, so they cover up their waste. They don't want to let predators know where they were.
Since the litter box is the closest thing to the wild in a controlled environment, the cat buries its waste.
2007-03-09 04:29:58 · answer #1 · answered by Yumi H 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If kittens are left with their mother until they are 6 or 7 weeks the mother actually trains them. Cats are clean by nature so by in stink they will use a litter box where they can get their business covered up.
2007-03-09 10:35:14 · answer #2 · answered by Classy Granny 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
they don't. You put them there one time after they go somewhere else though, and the do et it. They are much smarter ten most animals and understand what you're trying to tell them.
There is training, it's just very quick. Also, if your litterbox sells like other cats or previous cats and is the only place in the house that smells like that, they understand that too.
2007-03-09 05:46:58 · answer #3 · answered by The Big Box 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Since your words are so eloquently put. Cats urinate in the litter box because the like to scratch in sand to urinate so where there is a sandy place they will go. thus the litter box.
2007-03-09 04:38:07 · answer #4 · answered by katie d 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because cats cover their boo boos and kitty litter is the only thing in the house they can cover them with. Or The kitty litter should be the only thing in the house to cover them with! If not then I am sure a little cat pee won't matter ! lol
2007-03-09 04:38:21 · answer #5 · answered by Diana 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
they like the sand or litter, like in the wild, very clean and tidy, got rid of the rats and mice in ancient Egypt that defecated and pee on all the grain (cats protected Temple graineries!), cats very tidy, don't contaminate food supply and go away from and cover up, very neatly, he he
2007-03-09 05:37:05 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
when cats are kittens their mother brings them into the litter box with her, she teaches them to go there. eloquent wording by the way. lol
2007-03-09 05:09:18 · answer #7 · answered by kerri c 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Nice way to put it...
Anyway, it's instinct.
2007-03-09 04:27:50 · answer #8 · answered by KathyS 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋