How do I introduce a kitten to new litter?

[mallorycat [RIPMJ]]

For about a week I've been using some Cat's Pride Litter, and she's been using the bathroom as she should. But today, we just ran out. We went to the store, but we couldn't find any Cat's Pride litter, so we got some Fresh Step and and a store brand box of litter. I got a new box and filled it with store brand litter. I know she needs to pee, but when I place her in the litter box, she sniffs it and walks away. She just peed on the chair, she never does that. She is 12 weeks old by the way. How do I show her to use the litter box?

 

[Tara]

You'll have to try to find the other brand of litter, or one similar if you can't. You can only really introduce cats to new litter brands by mixing (25%/75%, then 50%/50%... etc). If you keep trying to use the new litter and she refuses, she may learn to pee and poop outside the box and it will be difficult to retrain her to use the box again.

 

[gishkathy]

make the kitten understands that it is now going to be part of a litter of kittens.

 

[BUDDY]

I Think Litter Is Like Cat Food, If They Don't Like The Smell They Wont Eat.

 

[factxry]

There's not really much you can do. If a cat doesn't like the litter, she won't use it. We used to use the Maxx clump stuff and my cat hated it, so we switched to Special Kitty and that was fine.