When my kitten arrives home, how can I help it maintain its litter training?
Kittens are well established with their litterbox and scratching post when they leave. If you have the correct kind of scratching post waiting (the sisal kind) and keep the kitten confined to a small area for a few days, you should have not furniture scratching or litterbox problems. Litterbox problems arise when people allow a small kitten free run of a large house that only has one litter box in an out of the way place…or, where a kitten is expected to use the litterbox of an existing cat. The kitten can use an out of the way litter box when it is well established in the household and is used to the comings and goings common to that home. Until then, one litterbox per floor is the rule and one litterbox plus one for each cat in the household. For the first few days, the kitten should be kept in a bedroom or small room in the home with its food bowls, bed and litterbox, unless someone is watching its every move and then be taken to the litterbox every half hour or so.
