Keep litterboxes in rooms that dogs can’t access. Ordinarily, I’m all about litterboxes being available in socially significant spaces. But in the world of dog and cat, you might have to make some concessions. One of my go-to moves is putting up a baby gate in a room where the litterbox is. Then you can raise up that baby gate around eight inches off the ground—maybe a little less, if you have a small dog. That way, the cat has the ability to go either under the gate or over the gate, and we can rest assured that the litterbox is safe from prying snouts (or toddlers, who think that any sandbox
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