When it is necessary to bathe your cat, be sure you use a shampoo made for cats. Other types may irritate their skin. Place litter about two inches deep in the box. The two main types of litter are clay and clumping. The clumping type forms clumps when soiled making it easier to scoop out the solid and liquid waste.
Cats naturally scratch to bury their waste.
While it is recommended that you keep your cat inside, cats do sometimes escape through an open door. It is very important for your cat to have a collar with an identification tag. Lee County Ordinance 98-10 requires that cats now wear their county license tags on their collars at all times. This microchip is about the size of a piece of rice and is implanted between the shoulder blades by injection. The procedure is quick and relatively painless.