A family's attempt to deter their kitten from using a potted fig tree as a litter box is hilariously foiled by the clever feline.
A family trying to train their kitten not to use a potted plant as a toilet thought they had come up with the perfect hack, only to be outsmarted right away. Beth Thompson, 48, lives in Michigan and is the first-time owner of a kitten, Butters, after only having dogs. She told Newsweek she 'had no idea this is what kittens were like.''He has been entertaining us since the day we rescued him,' she said. 'He is the sweetest kitten and so very smart.
' When they first got Butters as a rescue, Thompson explained, he was 'very sick' and spent most of his time sleeping.'Now that he is healthy he is full of energy,' she said—and causing chaos the way only kittens can. A video shared to Thompson's TikTok account, @grandma.lives.in, on December 21, has racked up over 53,000 likes, as Thompson showed the desperate measures they were taking to train Butters not to use their potted fig tree as a toilet. In the clip, Thompson places plastic forks in the soil, making it impossible for Butters to stand on it. But seconds later, she captures tiny Butters jumping up, noticing the forks, and instantly pulling one out of the soil with his mouth.'Butters wins again,' Thompson wrote in the caption. TikTok users loved it, with one commenter sharing her own story: 'My husband didn't know much about cats when we first started dating so seeing him TRY to outsmart them over the years is always hilarious!' Another commenter wrote: 'I love how he only chooses to remove the one, meaning he didn't intend to fully go through with it, he just wanted to show that forks aren't enough to stop him if he wanted to!' Others suggested other potential deterrents, from citrus and coffee grounds to covering the soil with tin foil. But as Thompson told Newsweek: 'He insists on using that pot as his litter box. We already tried foil over the pot, and he just pulled the foil off and ran away with it
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