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Sometimes cats just avoid using a litter box but that [cat going poop outside the litter box but pees inside the litter box] is kind of strange. Most time people ask me why they go outside the litter box period.

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Temple Grandin
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: August 29
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The animal that I have worked with the most is beef cattle, so that's my favorite animal, but I like all animals.
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If I could snap my fingers and be nonautistic, I would not. Autism is part of what I am.
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The big companies are like steel and activists are like heat. Activists soften the steel, and then I can bend it into pretty grillwork and make reforms.
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