"Hey cat - git down there and fetch me some crappie for dinner. Now git!"

Actually, they bury to cover up their scent because you're the dominant animal, your domain (no matter how you perceive their attitude). A cat that doesn't bury is doing it to mark territory.

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Constantly have it run your life. Can Never leave the dog alone for more than 8 hrs at a time before you have to take it outside and watch it poop.

Dog door. Problem solved.

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A raccoon coming into my house would be a Scooby Snack for my dogs. If you've got small dogs you don't like walking, though, you can actually train them to use a canine version of a litterbox.

Yep. I also had a dog that liked to drag things outside that belonged inside.

No way. Then you have a needy, slobbery animal that's high maintenance, AND you have to clean up its poop. F that.

I never wanted my dog being able to come and go at will. Otherwise, she would have taken off after every damn skunk that came around. :mad: Or tracked mud all over the house, etc.

Could you imagine the mess a dog attacking a raccoon in the house would make?

Dogs are an incredible pain in the ass.

The wife insisted we get a puppy. So now we have a puppy; and while adorable and most certainly destined to be a great little buddy for a decade plus, he's annoying the ever-loving shit out of me at the moment.

The cat was so much easier. Just way, way, way easier.

This was an outdoor dog whose "dog house" was my garage. He had free reign of the back yard and garage.

He was also 120-pound Great Pyr, so if he wanted something outside that didn't quite fit through the dog door, he was large enough and strong enough to generally make it happen.

WTF kind of dogs have you dealt with? Small dogs don't tend to slobber, and dogs are low maintenance pets if you set up a bathroom situation that works for you.

This is really not hard. If you have indoor cats, getting the clumping litter and making sure you have enough litter boxes all helps, but you MUST scoop it at least every 2 or 3 days. Every day is better, but you can not let it go past a few days unless you are on some long vacation.

There is no shortcut, if you don't want your house to smell, then you must keep that cat box clean. This goes right up there with needing to feed them every day and make sure they have water as a mandatory requirement for indoor cats. If you fail to clean the litter box often enough, then your house will smell like cat ass, and there's no way to prevent that other than just getting used to keeping it clean.