AJs Best Friends Purebred Cat and Small Dog Rescue

- To prevent your cat from digging in the dirt around your houseplants, go to your local craft store and buy a few pieces of the plastic needlepoint mesh. Cut it to fit the pot, with a slit and an opening for the plant. Place it on top of the dirt. Or, dampen a cotton ball with oil of clove, then bury the cotton ball just below the surface.

- To stop cats from chewing on houseplants, mist the leaves with water and sprinkle a small amount of cayenne pepper on the leaves. Or you can buy Bitter Apple from your local pet store and spray it on the leaves.

- Orange peels, vinegar, and water can all be useful as cat repellants.

EARS

- Q-tips dipped in hydrogen peroxide, to clean the ear, and it helps with earmites too.

Pee & Poo

- Sprinkle a generous amount of salt on top of the carpet where your cat or dog has peed. Leave it long enough to soak up the urine, let it dry before you vacuum it up. You can then put Get Serious on the spot to remove any residual odor and stains.

- Cats are fastidious about their �litterbox�, so make your litter box inviting to your cats by emptying it completely and refill with fresh clean litter at least once a month if you use scoopable litter, weekly if you use clay litter. Sanitize and deodorize with a solution of 1 part bleach and 32 parts water.

- Brown stains on the bottom of the box can be removed easily with Shower Power. Spray a generous amount on, let sit, then wipe out and rinse well. Repeat until the brown stain is removed. The brown stain comes from the lime in your cats urine and is usually found when using clay litter.

- After the litterbox is clean and sanitized, spray a generous amount of spray wax on the sides and bottom of the litterbox to help keep debris from sticking to the sides of the box, and makes it so easy to clean.

- We use plastic storage boxes as our litterbox. The boxes measure approx. 21"long, 14" wide, and 12" deep. We have seen them at drug stores, mart stores, and office supply stores. They usually cost around $5-$8. We have several cats, and we found that they all like the new box. It is big enough to accomodate a 40# box of scoopable litter. It solved so many problems like: male cats overshooting the sides, cats who like to scoop out most of the litter, cats who don't like covers, cats who like privacy, cats who like to play in fresh clean litter, odors aren't trapped, it is big enough to accomodate any sized cat. Because it is clear they can see who is coming so they don't feel penned in. Even baby kittens like it. It is a challenge for them to get inside it. It is so easy to clean, and the best part, you can throw it away and get a new one every other month and still save money over the ones in the pet stores.