Breaking Cat News by Georgia Dunn for August 10, 2021

I gotta love Elvis’s thinking!

Indeed, a perfect description of a half-bath. (Although a sink is usually included also.)

Which is exactly what one of the families who moved into my first childhood home did. The kitchen pantry/closet was turned into a small half-bath. Personally, I’d rather have the pantry.

Half-baths are awesome. As far as I’m concerned, a domicile should have at least one toilet for every tush in the house. The fact that most don’t even have as many toilets as bedrooms is something I will never understand.♥

I just knew there was kitty litter in the next cabinet! Purrfect place to conceal it. But, I do wonder . . . how do the People deal with out-of-hand mega poops that will no doubt cling to the inner, hard-to-reach wooden walls? Not that any of the gang would knowingly do that (especially not dignified Elvis, who claims he doesn’t poop), but accidents do happen. I recall the many accidents that would occur with my cats and the litter box, and having to clean up the mess, but they were “open plan” litter boxes.

OT: Rescue cat…

Why do they call it a half-bath when you can’t even take half a bath in it?

OT: Nushi’s Birthday!!!

I think I’d put a curtain of some sort in that archway… Maybe Sophie could design something?

In the UK, it’s just called a ‘downstairs toilet’ or a ‘shower room’ if it has one of those. ‘Half bath’. Pah. If you put in something that’s half the size of a bath, you know what it is? A bath. (Turns rant off) The design makes some sense, Elvis. You just don’t like change.

In Australia and Japan, it’s normal for the toilet to be in a different room from the room that has the bath and shower. (An en suite or, in Japan, a unit bathroom will have the toilet in the same room.) “Bathroom” means the room with the bath in it. It’s silly to call a room a “bathroom” if there is no bath there.

A water closet for the people, a litter closet for the cats.

And the plant still lives!

I wish I had the room or money for something like that.

Georgia Dunn ™ brand cat litter – cats request it.

1/4 Bath, 1/2 Bath, 3/4 Bath, Full Bath, Master Bath, Jack & Jill Bath…I never realized there were so many before I was a Contractor.

The money that some people were prepared, and did, invest in these rooms little rooms was amazing. I think the most expensive bathroom remodel I ever did was north of $55,000 (over fifteen years ago). Everything for these people had to be imported or top of the line, including the thermostatically controlled heated tile floor.

Happy National Lazy Day everybody!!

I heard somewhere that they originally wanted National Lazy Day to be celebrated on June 25th, but nobody had the energy to push it through! :-)

My, how unpredictable is Elvis! :-O

Half bath! What are they gonna make next? A half bedroom?

When we tried a similar hutch, the cats didn’t like it. They ended up using some of my wife’s shoes in protest.

They prefer the open air pan.

We use excellent Kitty Litter, so there is no odor issue.

My wife did notice they would not go near my shoes, thinking that my natural foot odors were more off-putting than their own potty,

I just bought a new house and I need a litter box like this. I don’t want to cut access holes in the doors. Some doors I do l do leave open for the cats but the one to the laundry room i would like to keep close. I close October 1. This will be the first time the cats will have steps. Such fun.

Elvis, I’m fairly certain that even if they DID do that, you’d still find something to hate about it and refuse to use it.

My house has a half-bath. It IS basically a litter box for humans. We should really call it a no-bath, because it doesn’t have bathing facilities, except for a bathroom sink.

OT: my mother’s friend Evie.

He even more perfectly described a split bathroom – pretty common in San Francisco! https://www.sfgate.com/local/article/The-weird-story-behind-why-there-are-so-many-15937140.php

True, my half-bath (or powder room, as I call it) is basically a closet-based toilet & sink.

We have one like that.

Elvis is sophisticated in the ways of humans.

I have triumphed. I have a five bedroom house and four and a half bathrooms. Two master suites are on airbnb

I think Honor might like a hooded litter box.

That’s called a water closet, Elvis. They used to be quite popular.

BREAKING CAT NEWS! I got to pet our senior feral today! Gave him ear and chin scritches, and once he was off the enclosed porch so I could close the door and turn on the A/C, he allowed me to do it AGAIN! I even got him on his side and gently ran my hand on his belly. That’s when I felt he’s so bony! Yet, he keeps going! For extra calories, I give him Kitten Chow, yet he’s now in the kitchen eating the regular cat food, which I know he’ll upchuck. Oh well, at least he’s happy.

Think of it like pooping inside a TV from the 70s, Elvis.

Only one litter box for all those cats?

The house I grew up in had a one quarter bath (toilet…and nothing else). It was odd.

Which brave cat is going to be the first to give this strange contraption a test drive? :D

Euphemisms for “the place with the commode” are many—and often absurd. When not absurd, they are often … “in poor taste” …

Frankly, I hope “taste” has nothing to do with it.

I think this is an intro to You Know Who destroying the plant again then needing the new litter cabinet. Although why is the box on the open side??

That’s a good one, Elvis.

Quarter bath, actually.