Try placing a new litter box near the old one (leave it). I like the
Rubbermaid 18 gallon boxes instead of the regular litter boxes--they give
the cat more room to scratch and are high enough backed that, if the cat
can't get down, urine isn't sprayed out. You can cut a "door" out on the
short side if you think the box is too high for the cat to jump in and out
of. Fill it with the litter he likes. Now is no time to change litter or
put a fragranced one in. If he is associating the litter box with pain, and
I have had that happen a number of times, a new one should help.
Also spray Feliway everyplace he has gone inappropriately.
If you have men who will
exclude any of God's creatures
from the shelter of
compassion and pity, you will have men who
will deal likewise with
their fellow man.
St.
Francis
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, January 26, 2007 7:28 PM
Subject: cat BM in inappropriate locations
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
