You've been thru a lot with your kitty. I certainly don't know - but
just briefly, if he was mine, I'd try Flagyl, which is not only for
parasites but can be useful as an anti-inflammatory. If that didn't
work, I'd talk to my vet about it other parasite problems. If that
didn't work, I'd try some of the drugs that effect mood - like
Elavil, Valium, that sort of thing.
Might also try locking him up in a bathroom with a litter box and
caring for him there for a couple of days.I've done that with a
couple of cats who pooped inappropriately, feeding them good wet food
twice a day, and after a while the poop becomes loose - guess I'm
feeding the parasites. When that became apparent, I switched to Flagyl, etc.
Hope you find a good solution, and maybe this helps in some way.
Gloria
At 07:28 PM 1/26/2007, you wrote:
In a way, this is almost funny, and I hate to interject it between all
the terribly serious things that are happening with other's cats and
the desperate measures some are going to try and save their babies. My
heart goes out to you, Paolo and Michelle in particular.
Our ~12 y.o. FIV+ male, Otis, has begun defecating in various places
around the house. The first incidence happened probably a month ago,
when he was locked in the bedroom with no litter box for about 1/2 an
hour (feeding time). He used the closet. We said "stupid us" and made
sure never to do that again. A few days later, he went in the closet
again. The doors were all open and he was never locked in.
A month later, we found it in the bathroom, on the bathmat. Next, we
found urine on the bathmat. The next day, he went right on the tile in
the corner of the bathroom. Today, I *knew* he was going to do it, went
in there and caught him, put him in the litterbox. He vaulted out of
there like a teenager and headed right back to the bathroom. When he
squatted, I picked him up, and, well, he did it anyway.
My partner is a vet tech, and I held him while she expressed his anal
glands today. One had a lot of relatively hard matter in it; the other
seemed pretty normal. We were hoping that was the reason for his
behavior. Lo, he went in the bathtub while we were out at the gym this
evening -- just a small bit, but there it was.
Did he develop a litterbox aversion because the anal gland was
bothering him and just hasn't figured out that it will not hurt to use
the litterbox? Or ... what on earth is going on? On the tile and in
the bathtub are two of the least destructive choices he could make but
naturally we want him in the litterbox!
Lynette =^..^=
"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be measured by
the way in which its animals are treated." --Mahatma Gandhi, 1869-1948
