What is the first thing you do when you wake up in the morning?

Stumble through a sea of kitties and make coffee.

pee

How many kitties?

Honestly, if it's possible I like to...uh...be intimate when I wake up in the morning. I don't know why I feel that way. Otherwise I guess I go potty first.

I go put on the coffee then brush my teeth and wash my face.

put my feet on the floor, pet the cat, put some clothes on, pee, get a coffee, walk upstairs, turn my computer on, ...

pee

1. brush my hair
2. get dressed
3. eat breakfast
After that it varies, depending on what I'm doing that day.

Pee,plain and simple, that's what i do

Open my eyes.

Other - turn off my alarm

Head for the bathroom and then let the dog out so he can do his "Thing"....

The first three plus Other--daydream a little before getting out of bed.

Pee first. Then get that cuppa coffee.

go back to sleep

Scream and press snooze

I get my dead body out of bed in dee Morning brush my teeth, feed my kitty cat, get breakfast ready and take all of my medications and vitamins, go back to bathroom and get myself ready to face the day putting on my makeup , eyeshadow and mascara and a skirt or dress on day's I have off, and do some house cleaning and do my laundry

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I have 4.... Do yours go outside? What's your litter situation? I have two boxes (too few, I know.. but space won't allow for more).... I really only have to scoop every other day even then... My cats are indoors.. but I've been considering building an outdoor cat enclosure. I had one a few years ago that was connected to the house via a kitty door.... they came and went as they pleased....

I'd have to scan a pic of the one I had before... but here's a link for some really cool ones that I used as examples when I drew up my plans for the new one...

http://www.just4cats.com/page7.html

Two of my boys can go out. They stay pretty close, I had a talk with them and explained the dangers of the great outside. My orange is not a bright boy so he has to stay in. Rosie is Mary's baby and she is the ultimate bedroom kitty. Look, but you can only touch her when she wants you to. The baby is 9 months old, and sweet. she will bolt out the door, freak out and run back in. Just as well, I don't like it when my kitties are out, but they got to do what they got to do.
One litter box in the bedroom. And in the laundry room there are 3 boxes. They share pretty nice, but they do have their favorites. All 3 are next to each other next to the bck door, with the one on the end underneath a stool so I have shelf space on top. They will pee in one, then poop in another. It's pretty funny. I tangled with the idea of having double decker cat boxes, but I figured they would be pretty messy dragging litter all over the house. I put litter trays under them so their little feet don't drag it all through the house.
I considered the kitty door with an enclosure, but with the number of coyotes around, it would be too much like bait. It's always an adventure coming and going through the front door watching for bolting kitties.

That first one is an awesome enclosure! I never even thought of doing that. I had a cat that I walked on a leash.

I heard that 90% of orange tabbies are male. Have you ever heard that?

I may have. That would be a fun statistic to persue.

I clicked the link...oooh, got my head going. I would really like to be out there with them, and maybe mosquito netting inside the chicken wire because they love me being out with them, and the skeeters are rough out here.

pee

> Honestly, if it's possible I like to...uh...be
> intimate when I wake up in the morning. I
> don't know why I feel that way. Otherwise
> I guess I go potty first.

My partner and I do that - well, sort of. When the alarm goes off, we hit the snooze and just snuggle and hold one another until it goes off again....then it is off to pee.

> That first one is an awesome enclosure! I
> never even thought of doing that. I had a
> cat that I walked on a leash.


They and I have talked about cat enclosures before. We have an enclosure with a cat door in a ground level basement window. They love it. They just haven't figured out yet that they can use the facilities outside. They come in, go to the litter box, and go back outside.

Two cats, Merlyn and Simon Patrick, have always had a harness and lead so that they could play in the yard. We had one dog in the back yard that thought the cats were lunch and this was the only way to keep them safe at the time. When we moved into this house, we had the enclosure built for them. Merlyn still likes to be taken for a walk around the neighborhood on his leash.

> I have 4.... Do yours go outside? What's
> your litter situation? I have two boxes (too
> few, I know.. but space won't allow for more)....
> I really only have to scoop every other day
> even then... My cats are indoors.. but I've
> been considering building an outdoor cat
> enclosure. I had one a few years ago that
> was connected to the house via a kitty door....
> they came and went as they pleased....
>
> I'd have to scan a pic of the one I had before...
> but here's a link for some really cool ones
> that I used as examples when I drew up my
> plans for the new one...
>
> http://www.just4cats.com/page7.html
>
>

How do you get away with scooping only every other day?!? We have 3 cats. One large litter box. Special food for indoor cats that reduces the poop production and smell thereof. We enclosed the space beneath the basement stairs and cut a hole in the hallway wall on one side and put a door on the other. The little box is in there with a ionizer. I scoop twice a day and sprinkle baking soda to help with the smell. Once a week I empty litter, scrub the box, put fresh litter, vacuum inside the space to get all the gravel out and mop twice (once with hot water and bleach, and then with hot water and lysol). It still stinks! What am I doing wrong?

Pee, I guess then turn on computer then make coffee (oh and put on some shorts and a t-shirt)

Pee. Then I turn on my computer, open the curtains, make my breakfast, and eat while I check my e-mail and toodle around online.

Wow... that's a lot of work!!!

What kind of litter are you using? I use Tidy Cats small spaces and if I scoop every other day with two boxes, it never smells...... and it's in a closet in the main hallway of my house across from the kitchen... so it's very important to me that I NOT smell it. Also, my sense of smell is very strong.

Pee then have a smoke.

Visit the loo.

I use the Fresh Step. Maybe I can find a way to get 2 boxes in there. I'm going to try that...this scooping twice a day is getting really old!

I get dressed first then I wash my face brush my teeth and so on.

The Best part of Waking up is (Folgers) in" my" cup"

I brush my face and wash my teeth he he

Someone else said in this thread that their cat uses one for poop and one for pee... Mine do the same thing... Maybe that helps?

That might be it....mine use the center for poop and the corners for pee. I'll try to fit in another litter box and see if that helps.

When I had two cats and one litter box one of them started pooping around the house. I asked my vet and she said you should have 1 extra box than the number of cats you have. If you have 1 cat, 2 boxes. 2 cats, 3 boxes. She said to get at one more box because cats often prefer to go #1 in one box and #2 in the other. Cats are weird.

First I stretch, then I pee - the rest depends on what day of the week it is.

Me too, especially on weekends!! I don't always get what I want, though. No time in the morning on workdays.

Light a cigarette and go pee.

Do you smoke while you pee?

Yep.

Can't help lighting up first thing in the morning sometime!

> The first three plus Other--daydream a little
> before getting out of bed.

glad I'm not the only one who dose that.

A little daydreaming after I wake up sometimes gives me new ideas to try out.

complain and then pee

Get out of bed.

Go and have a pee.

cigarette. coffee. pee. maybe get laid. simple girl. simple needs.

Go back to sleep. Get dressed. Brush teeth. Rush out the door 5 minutes later than planned.

Open my eyes. groan, turn off the alarm clock and then force myself to get up and face another day.

Open my eyes, stretch while in bed....visit the ladies room, brush my teeth, clean up, get dressed for the day.

Turn off the alarm clock, then sit up in bed.