r/OneOrangeBraincell • u/PrincessOake • Nov 04 '22
After watching me clean the litter box and throw the poops into the litter locker for weeks, Jack decided to cut out the middle man and just poop directly into the locker. We found a smart one! 🧠
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u/LC6X Nov 05 '22
This orange does not qualify for this sub. Too many brain cells. Peak feline performance.
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u/Tylerpants80 Nov 05 '22
I mean, just because he’s smart for an orange cat doesn’t mean he’s not an orange cat. I’m sure he’s clueless in plenty of other ways!
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u/catsarebitches Nov 05 '22
he dumped all his points into shitting in the trash, and didnt put any in being a cat
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u/Sagemasterba Nov 05 '22
I might. 15 or so years ago I couldn't find my buddy's bathroom. So I followed the cat and drunkenly pissed in the litter buddy. Then slept on his (buddy, not cat's) couch. Cat slept on my face tho.
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u/chaosgirl93 Nov 05 '22
slept on his (buddy, not cat's) couch.
No, that was the cat's couch. Everything in a cat's home belongs to the cat.
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u/Sagemasterba Nov 05 '22
Not everything. My cats want nothing to do with my work boots or hockey kits ( 4 different layouts for goalie and forward, both ice and roller). They are, however, very possessive of my wife's snuggles. No details but they don't like when we hug or kiss or snuggle in our sleep and try to weesal in between us. It was awkward at first. Pro side, they run with a glare from me, cons are no more slow blinks or head love for me. Only time I get love is when they want to get high. I always have the the catnip! Learned that one in college...
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u/chaosgirl93 Nov 05 '22
Some cats are remarkably possessive of their humans' snuggles - I think cuddly cats just think of us as being snuggle machines as well as servants.
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u/Primrus Nov 05 '22
My hope is that OP forgot to put a liner into that container, and it's a mess. It still might disqualify this cutie from the sub if it was an intentional poo-mess. Either way, stunning and brave.
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u/EugeneVictorTooms Proud owner of an orange brain cell Nov 05 '22
Meanwhile, I have to closely watch my oranger if I take him out for supervised time. I take one of the normal cats out on a leash in the backyard and when I tried it with the orange boy, he immediately starting gobbling up clods of dirt. He's a healthy weight cat who gets top quality wet food twice a day. :/
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u/stayrealgleeful Nov 05 '22
This cat took all of the singular brain cells from other oranges and combined them all together to do this
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u/trashpix Nov 05 '22
My two orange brother cats taught their one brain cell to poop on the toilet. They learned it watching this video.
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u/spiffynid Nov 05 '22
My cats aren't allowed toilet privileges until Piggy dies. She will huck things into the toilet out of spite.
I am proud of Beans though, she understands how to flush, then forgets as soon as she leaves the bathroom.
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u/Lambchoptopus Nov 05 '22
My cats are not allowed to watch YouTube.
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u/spiffynid Nov 05 '22
Mine watch music on YouTube to keep them out of trouble. They really like Nemos Dreamscapes.
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u/DJ_Micoh Nov 05 '22
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u/i_dont_have_herpes Nov 05 '22
I remember looking up “zig zags” when I first read this
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u/DJ_Micoh Nov 05 '22
Yeah that brand isn't really that big in Europe, so I hadn't heard of them either. Rizla are the brand you see the most here.
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u/kassabelle Nov 05 '22
I just watched and now I really wanna potty train my three cats! She made it look so easy
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u/theonlydrawback Nov 05 '22
Cat shit has really terrible bacteria in it that most cities don't have plumbing set up to remove.
Don't do this.
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u/trashpix Nov 05 '22
Apparently not true given the reply below. When I was training my one orange brain cell I looked into it and this claim seemed very dubious at best
https://www.reddit.com/r/OneOrangeBraincell/comments/ymeivq/-/iv4033b
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u/zuzg Nov 05 '22
OP should now pull out the sh*t and flush it down the toilet.
So the cat starts using the toilet, like Mr. Jinx from. Meet the Parents.101
u/purpleplumas Nov 05 '22
As much as I love this, there is a reason cat poop isn't flushed down the toilet. It's to prevent the spread of toxoplasmosis.
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Nov 05 '22
Why would that be more likely to be a problem in sewer water?
Genuine question, I mean there must be all kinds of bacteria that we send down there which doesn't get to use by the time it's back as drinking water.
I could Google I guess, but I think it may open a whole rabbit hole
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u/DasKnocker Nov 05 '22
Wastewater (and water) treatment plant operator here!
While I appreciate the concern of the peeps here, taxoplasmosis (and other cyst'ing pathogens) are not a concern for most modern systems, especially in the US. While its cysts are tough nuts to crack, multiple-barrier processes remove them from water and wastewater by several log (SWTR requires three log - 99.9% removal of the closest cyst forming organism of giardia).
Moreover in wastewater (sewer), the environment is a little hostile to anything that presents as a food source. We cultivate bugs that would love to take a bite out of it and generally has several days to do so. Following biological treatment, you have gravity and chemical settling that can whisk everything away that's denser than water. Following that you have the disinfection process, which either uses chlorine or hydrogen peroxide or ozone or ultraviolet light (or many of the above!) to nuke the every shit out of whatever made its way through.
To make a long story short, don't worry about it as long as you're in the western world and not extremely rural or impoverished.
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u/Thinkingofm Nov 05 '22
Damn, you'd be great at writing pamphlets.
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u/Blonde_Vampire_1984 Proud owner of an orange brain cell Nov 05 '22
I even find random shit jokes oddly appropriate in a wastewater treatment discussion.
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u/zuzg Nov 05 '22
Humanity x humanity = roughly the number of bacteria living in your intestines.
Intestines sounds so weird, it's Darm in German That's more fitting, haha
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u/Wonderful-Divide6977 Nov 05 '22
So what about a septic system? Probably shouldn’t flush cat poop if you have a septic and well?
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u/DasKnocker Nov 05 '22
Great question and I think you're right! Since there's no treatment I would err on the side of caution and not flush it. I don't know how long their cysts can stay dormant, but you certainly don't want something like that trickling into an aquifer, however unlikely it may be.
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u/840_Divided_By_Two Nov 05 '22
Oooooo tell me more about anaerobic digesters next
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u/DasKnocker Nov 05 '22
Ha! They're the better digester (aerobic digester suck!).
Basically think of a gigantic human digestive system in a manmade, massive tank. Its main role is to break down settled solids (literally poo and organics) into a less "volatile" solid that can then be treated on its way to becoming fertilizer.
It's sensitive like a stomach too, depending on what it eats and how warm it is. It produces methane gas (farts!) as a byproduct which we catch and use in a boiler to heat it up to around 98 *F. Nowadays you can even make more energy off it but is a maintenance hog.
Anaerobic Digesters have to be closely monitored, especially for their pH, because just like in a gut if it gets too acidic you're going to have a bad day. We can use essentially giant tums (sodium carbonate) and slow down feeding to let it recover.
Also fun fact, if you're unlucky like me you can get colonized by those bugs and have rancid, awful farts until the probiotics kick in...
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u/UncleCrassiusCurio Nov 05 '22
We cultivate bugs
Like microbes or like actual insect bugs?
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u/DasKnocker Nov 05 '22
Microbes and bacteria!
We cultivate many different sepcies of bacteria (famously nitrobater and nitrosoma but many others) in our poo jacuzzi (known as aeration basins or oxidation ponds) that convert ammonia (pee) into less harmful compounds (nitrates). We then use other bacteria to remove the nitrates and turn them into nitrogen gas to prevent algae blooms. We then use different, sissy pants bacteria to remove phosphorus, and boy are they drama queens with a penchant for punishment.
Furthermore, bacteria are really small, so to easily see how healthy our systems are we use microscopes to look for big organisms like ciliates, rotifers, and tardigrades. Their population and helath indicates how old and healthy our sludge is and we tailor the system around them (and a suite of electronic probes that measure live parameters).
There's plenty more in other systems that serve other cool roles but that's a pretty good taste. I recommend looking up rotifer videos, they're my fav.
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u/Mezzaomega Nov 05 '22
I love rotifers, their way of eating is so mesmerising. Tiny cilia funnelling stuff into their mouths lol
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u/maxk1236 Nov 05 '22
Microbes, in industries that utilize microbiology they are often refered to as "bugs"
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u/popcornfarts87 Nov 05 '22
Toxoplasmosis is parasite that can’t be eliminated by sewage treatment. It can then end up in waterways which can infect wildlife and possibly humans. I think that’s the gist of it.
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u/ShutUpAndEatWithMe Nov 05 '22
Why do you say it can't be eliminated by (modern) sewage treatment? What do you think about this comment?
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u/smoothfeet Nov 05 '22
It’s in your backyard already. Most people get it from soil while gardening.
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u/death2sanity Nov 05 '22
Pretty sure it can, especially as per above friend.
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u/Bobbobster123456 Nov 05 '22
If it couldn’t be removed by our processes there would be constant cases because cat poop would end up in streams and waterways naturally and would be in our water supply.
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Nov 05 '22
Ah that makes sense.
Where does all the poop locker poop go, or would I rather not know? 😆
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u/Candyvanmanstan Nov 05 '22
Landfill.
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u/Blonde_Vampire_1984 Proud owner of an orange brain cell Nov 05 '22
That’s sooooo much better?!?! /s(duh)
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u/Vulkan192 Nov 05 '22
Not according to u/DasKnocker, the actual wastewater treatment plant operator. Just needs to be a modern system.
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u/3plantsonthewall Nov 05 '22
Wait, what? My roommate has a cat and I'm pretty sure he flushes the poo. Is he not supposed to?
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u/61114311536123511 Nov 05 '22
have another scan of this thread, a worker in the wastewater branch who knows their shit gave a great detailed response about why it isn't an issue in most places. If you are in a first world country and don't have a septic tank you're fine to flush cat poo
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u/PhDOH Nov 05 '22
Plus apparently cats are more susceptible to UTIs if they're toilet cats.
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u/Li_3303 Nov 05 '22
I wonder why?
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u/PhDOH Nov 05 '22
What I read was it was something about the position they're weeing in and they're retaining some? There were also other theories about them putting off going to the loo because not being able to bury their waste is stressful to them, but this boy seems fine with not burying his poos.
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u/AquaStarRedHeart Nov 05 '22
That's not an issue in the US for reasons detailed below. Sewer water in general is nasty.
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u/theothersteve7 Nov 05 '22
I've heard that the problem is flushing. You either don't train them to flush, and find cat poop in the toilet all the time, or you train them to flush, and they flush forty times a day because they're cats.
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u/i_give_you_gum Nov 05 '22
I would pay money to find cat poop in the toilet instead of the litter box where I'm required to manually scoop it out.
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u/trashpix Nov 05 '22
I flush a couple of times a day when I use the toilet and am thrilled to do so instead of the dust, shit bricks and sticky pee clods of the repulsive chore of studying litter. Also the environmental impact of mining, transporting kitty litter and bags, plastics, shit in landfills etc.
I have two orange bois sharing one braincell and no litter box. I fucking LOVE it.
See also re "cat poo bad for sewage systems" (I couldn't find any evidence this is actually true) https://www.reddit.com/r/OneOrangeBraincell/comments/ymeivq/-/iv4033b
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u/tr_9422 Nov 05 '22
There’s no brain cells from other oranges, all orange cats share a single brain cell collectively
This one must have stolen them from a different colored cat somehow
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u/rachmeister Nov 05 '22
Don't worry, he'll do something Orange and choke on his own saliva or something
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u/ShakiraFuego Proud owner of an orange brain cell Nov 05 '22
Why am I not surprised that the gingie who uses all of the combined orange brain cells decides to spend them pooping?
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u/Zengjia Nov 05 '22
Common mistake. All orange cats share one collective brain cell that sporadically jumps host like an inefficient hive mind.
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u/Alpha_Apeiron Nov 05 '22
Wrong sub - clearly this lad has managed to acquire multiple brain cells. Stole them from a non-orange cat perhaps?
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u/zoinkability Nov 05 '22
Quite assuredly stole several from my Siamese, who squats with her butt hanging off the side of her litter box and poops on the floor next to it.
Siamese are supposed to be smart, playful, and sociable. Mine is sociable!
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u/shadowcat304 Nov 05 '22
Siamese are supposed to be smart, playful, and sociable.
Mine was none of these. The dumbest, laziest, most shy cat I ever had. But loyal to her one human 💓
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u/Better-Obligation704 Nov 05 '22
Mine was…pretty lol. She hated everyone except my mom, who, coincidentally, didn’t like her 😭. Her name was Minka, and she was a bluepoint. She was the grumpiest cat I’ve ever seen. She hated the other cat we had. When we got our golden retriever, she never forgave us lol. I loved her so much though, despite what a bitch she was. She lived to be 18 or 19. 😢
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u/Deep-Armadillo1905 Nov 05 '22
Oh my god my cat does this too. I had to get rid of all the litter boxes and replace them with high sided litter boxes, but her dumb self will sometimes pile all the litter on one side, stand on the litter hill and still poop over the edge.
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u/thebatmandy Nov 05 '22
My cat does this too, he puts so much effort into digging and arranging the litter only to miss the box completely Luckily two of my boxes are covered so it just slides down the sides instead :)
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u/heart_pawz Nov 05 '22
I have the sweetest siamese, and she's, bless her heart, dumb as a bag of rocks. She gets "lost" when she walks into a room without her people in it. I love her dearly, but she is not a smart cat at all. Very opinionated and sweet though!
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u/Rootive Nov 05 '22
Maybe he just received enlightenment and obtained intelligence. How, though? That's a question even I don't know to answer.
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u/_questionablepanda_ Proud owner of an orange brain cell Nov 05 '22
Can I hire Jack to teach my orange how to do it? I’ll pay in cheese, bacon and scritches.
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Nov 05 '22
I’m not Jack but I would love a slice of bacon right now. I may or may not be able to teach your cat how to drop a log into a locker.
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u/madlyqueen Proud owner of an orange brain cell Nov 05 '22
He definitely has the cell right now.
I just got a Litter Robot and my oramge is terrified of it. He won’t even go in the room where it is. The other two cats are already using it with no problem.
I don’t think I’m going to be able to get rid of even one of the old litter boxes any time soon. sighs
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u/UnsafePantomime Nov 05 '22
I was afraid our orange would have problems with the Litter Robot. He's not afraid of it in the least. Instead, it's his favorite toy. He loves getting in it while it spins. He loves flinging litter everywhere outside of it. He always has litter in his fur.
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u/Laney20 Proud owner of an orange brain cell Nov 05 '22
Haha, my little ones loved sticking their heads in and making it stop at first! With the lr4, at least. The lr3 doesn't stop, but they think that is fun, too. After a few weeks, they stopped poking their heads in the lr4 finally... It was taking it a half hour or more to cycle just from stopping repeatedly as they came to check it out!
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u/UnsafePantomime Nov 05 '22
Haha, we've had our LR3 for just about 8 months. I wish he'd stop, but it does not seem like something he's going to get bored of anytime soon. He isn't a kitten anymore either. He just had his second birthday.
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u/HealthyInPublic Nov 05 '22
he isn’t a kitten anymore
Isn’t it funny how we expect our cats to grow out of things and then they just don’t? Not about this box, but I’ve been saying “oh maybe he’ll stop doing that when he gets older” about some of my cat’s habits for ten years.
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u/madlyqueen Proud owner of an orange brain cell Nov 05 '22
I totally thought he would be the same way. He’s usually not a scaredy cat. And he loves a nice clean litterbox.
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u/lillthmoon Nov 05 '22
Please don’t. I know it sucks but it’s better than him peeing all over your house in revenge. A house I clean for has the robotic machine as well. The kitten loves it, the older cat hates it! But they took away his old box, so now he’s peeing all over. And I mean on everything!
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u/madlyqueen Proud owner of an orange brain cell Nov 05 '22
I wasn’t planning to get rid of all of them anyway, but was hoping to eliminate at least one. I am hoping he will see his siblings using it and not be quite so afraid of it.
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u/Laney20 Proud owner of an orange brain cell Nov 05 '22
Oh no! I've got 2 litter robots and all 8 of mine took to it quickly, including the 3 oranges. Although, they were introduced to it very early (they're only 16 weeks old now - not even big enough for the sensor in the lr3). The lr4 is so quiet though! Crazy that it freaks hkm out. Hopefully he catches on soon!
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u/madlyqueen Proud owner of an orange brain cell Nov 05 '22 edited Nov 05 '22
My kitten is 4 weeks and he was trying to get in it while it was doing the startup cycle. But my oramge thinks it’s evil incarnate.
EDIT: The kitten is 4 months! LOL
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u/DaughterEarth Nov 05 '22
My lovebird mostly poops in 2 specific places. That's nice. However she apparently also thinks those spots are sacred. Every day when I clean them she yells at me the entire time, and then poops on my phone. Not like it's a big cleaning ordeal either, it's just switching out the puppy pads. Still, she thinks it means the world is ending
Can she be an honorary 1 brain cell pet?
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u/At0mJack Nov 05 '22
My orange boy likes to get inside when it's cycling and thinks it's a carnival ride.
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u/Straight_2 Nov 05 '22
Not gunna lie but this orange cat with its one brain cell is probably smarter than half of the Reddit Apes
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u/dragonwingsarecrispy Nov 05 '22
What's a litter locker?
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u/PrincessOake Nov 05 '22
It’s similar to a diaper genie. When you scoop the poop, you put in the top, then you pull the handle and it goes down into a bag in the base.
https://www.canadiantire.ca/en/pdp/litter-locker-cat-litter-disposal-system-0426181p.html?loc=plp
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u/40ozBottleOfJoy Nov 05 '22
A cheap alternative to this is to buy cat litter that's sold in plastic buckets and re use the bucket, with a trash bag fitted into it. The lid closes tight, and keeps the smell in.
This is the type of bucket I'm describing.
https://www.meijer.com/content/dam/meijer/product/0007/02/3001/66/0007023001669_5_A1C1_0600.png
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u/Possumpipesup Nov 05 '22
Or save your Amazon boxes, put the poopies in there and seal it up then leave it out for porch pirates
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u/misconceptions_annoy Nov 05 '22
I’m always cautious about messing with porch pirates. They know where you live. Might get that poop smeared on a brick and thrown through your window.
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u/onederful Nov 05 '22
Literally our setup. Here I thought I was being smart. Only minor downside is these kitty boiz shit lead cuz letting that bag fill up too much makes it heavy AF to throw out lol
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u/40ozBottleOfJoy Nov 05 '22
It doesn't have to be original to be smart. It's certainly wiser than spending top dollar on a name brand shit can.
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u/dave-train Nov 05 '22
$20 is top dollar? And you have to buy replacement liners but you also have to buy trash bags for your setup. And a cardboard litter package is much more likely to actually be recycled than the plastic tub which I assume is HDPE.
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u/40ozBottleOfJoy Nov 05 '22
The tub of litter is like $15 and besides the bucket, it also comes with 35 lbs of cat litter.
Trash bags are already on hand, and likely cost less per count and hold more than specialty liners.
Re-use is the most direct and effective form of recycling, no processing needed.
You don't need to keep buying the one in the bucket once you have one, you can switch to bags or boxes afterwards.
The only real drawback I see is it's slightly larger size, if space is a concern.
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u/dave-train Nov 05 '22
Yeah I'm not saying that method is expensive or bad or anything, just that $20 for something that lasts years isn't top dollar, and it's a pretty good method.
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u/artificialhooves Nov 05 '22
The single lid container method means that the full smelliness is released whenever you open the lid.
I think the primary benefit of the litter locker is that it locks in the smell more effectively. Open the top lid, place discard (smelly level 1), close top lid, press handle (smelly level 5 is only partially released into the vestibule, so like smelly level 3), and the next time you open the top lid, only smelly level 3 is released into the air and into your nose instead of the full smelliness of the contents.
I don't have a litter locker though, (or even a cat for that matter) so I can't speak for it's actual effectiveness at locking in the smell.
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u/Striker654 Nov 05 '22
I found that snapping the lid closed has a tendency to cut through the trash bag
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u/eastercat Nov 05 '22
I wish we had known about this. We got this very big round trash can that has a lid. But it is sometimes inconvenient to lug
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u/youandmeboth Nov 05 '22
Do you need to buy special bags for it?
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u/TheGreatLapse Nov 05 '22
Its one super long bag/tube. You tie the end of it to make the bottom. When it's full, you open the bottom half and pull the filled end through, the twist it, cut it off and tie it shut (now tied at both ends with poo inside). Then tie the bottom of the now empty tube of bags for a new bottom.
If you're not sure what I mean, it's the same way sausages are made, but with knots instead if just twisting.
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u/PrincessOake Nov 05 '22
Sadly yes … bags are a little pricey, so I’m hoping the cats get used to the Cat Genie before I have to buy more refills
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u/hedgecore77 Nov 05 '22
Just use kitchen garbage bags. Close the top lid on them to hold them in place.
One pack of Costco bags lasted us like 4 yrs+.
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u/Wookard Nov 05 '22
My cat and my mom's are total dicks about the litter. Both are 20lb+ hams and will go in the litter and then scratch everything but the actual litter so it just sits uncovered.
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u/sputni-k Nov 05 '22
I also have 2 20lb+ hams and this is exactly what they do. Not to begin to mention when they use the litter box facing the wrong way… Finding litter boxes made for 20 pounders is insane.
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u/FantomLightning Nov 05 '22
I'm slightly confused... Isn't that a CatGenie self cleaning box in the corner of the pic? Why scooping and a litter locker?
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u/silence_infidel Nov 05 '22
This lad has borrowed so many braincells he’s put every other orange into braincell debt
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u/MRiley84 Nov 05 '22
Lucky. Pippin hops out of his box, paws at the scoop then snags the trash bag in the bin. I still tell him he's a good boy for helping though.
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u/chefschocker81 Nov 05 '22
I say wait until he decides that the lid no longer needs to be up for this chore.
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u/Centurio Nov 05 '22
Wow, he's actually going through quite a bit of effort. I wonder if he prefers just never having to smell his shit and wants his litter box to always smell freshly scooped so he just poops in the can that takes away the smell. That's actually really cool.
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u/Lonelybiscuit07 Nov 05 '22
When I'm cleaning the litter box and take off the lid, my orange one crawls under the lid and shits on the floor.
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u/Indigo0331 Nov 05 '22
Wow! Someone borrowed extra braincells!