Luna has already shown us that she quite enjoys a nice comfy cat bed, but this didn’t explain why we kept finding her asleep in Azar’s litter box out on my bedroom balcony. Nog suggested that perhaps it was because the sand got warmed up in the afternoon sun, which kind of only made it seem even grosser, though it must be said that this litter box gets very little use. I have it out there for when nobody is home and we separate the cats. Azar gets my room, with his food and water dishes and balcony litter box. Luna is put in the “air lock” hallway that connects to Nog’s room. And Loki has the run of the rest of the house. Which means having three litter boxes! Which I hope will be temporary, or at least that we’ll be able to go back to just having two after Luna has grown enough to fend off the big orange galoot when he gets overly playful.
But this still didn’t explain why Luna kept going out to sleep in Azar’s litter box. Until I put two and two together… that Luna loves being out on the balcony and she likes having a bed to sleep on. So this afternoon I put an old cushion out there and voilà! She suddenly wasn’t interested in the litter box anymore. Cats, eh?

Soooooooo grossed out yesterday when Luna came into the bathroom while I was in there to use the cat box and when I went to scoop out her poop I found it alive with squiggling white worms! I knew she’d been treated for worms and fleas by the two Greek girls who had taken her in, but apparently I should have given her another course of deworming meds four weeks later (except I didn’t know when she’d had it done the first time). And so she is on day two of a three day course and doing well. No sign of worms any more but will have to ask Yolanda if I need to do this again in four weeks as I didn’t do the follow up last time.