Re: cat BM in inappropriate locations
Rubbermaid also makes high sided boxes with an entryway in one of the short sides. The ones I have have 11 sides (on the 3 sides) and I've seen Bandit actually standing up and tinkling against the side, so it's definitely high enough - and he can be a vigorous digger too. I got them at petsmart and I think I got some $ off with my pet perks card can't remember for sure now. Here's a link to the model I have:) http://www.petsmart.com/global/product_detail.jsp?PRODUCT%3C%3Eprd_id=845524441808078FOLDER%3C%3Efolder_id=2534374302033737ASSORTMENT%3C%3East_id=2534374302023690bmUID=1170193454082itemNo=3In=CatN=2033737Ne=2 Barb+Smoky the House Puma+El Bandito Malito My cat the clown: paying no mind to whom he should impress. Merely living his life, doing what pleases him, and making me smile. - Anonymous - Original Message From: Marylyn [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org Sent: Friday, January 26, 2007 10:22:46 PM Subject: Re: cat BM in inappropriate locations 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 - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org 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 TV dinner still cooling? Check out Tonight's Picks on Yahoo! TV. http://tv.yahoo.com/
Re: cat BM in inappropriate locations
Rubbermaid also makes high sided boxes with an entryway in one of the short= sides. The ones I have have 11 sides (on the 3 sides) and I've seen Band= it actually standing up and tinkling against the side, so it's definitely h= Yeah, we actually use file storage bins purchased at an office supply store. We cut a hole in the side for our arthritic older citizens in some of them, and others we just let them hop in and out of the top. The boys love the stand up and pee thing, and the arthritic older lady can no longer squat. She goes over the side on everything Petsmart sells including that nice high-backed job (yep, we tried it), and covered litterboxes don't work because she pees right at the crack between the cover and the bottom, with subsequent drippings out the back. Anyway, I am sure another litterbox would be totally appropriate; my partner is yelling at me about it already, but I REALLY want to avoid it. We have such a teeny house and every place we can put a litterbox pretty much already has one. We had one more poopie outside the box that was very hard and dry and nothing since then. I suspect he's feeling better about things back there and hope he is recovering from his litterbox aversion. Otherwise I guess we'll be putting a litterbox somewhere quite unpleasant. Thanks for the suggestions. Lynette
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
Re: cat BM in inappropriate locations
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
Re: cat BM in inappropriate locations
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 - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org 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
