We have two cats - a mother and daughter we rescued six months ago. The mother turns two 'today' (it's the date we gave her for her birthday) and last week she started something odd. She has taken to going into the litter box several times a day and not doing anything (by that I mean the normal by-product of why one would go to the litterbox is not occurring). She doesn't seem to be straining or struggling...just sitting there in. Sometimes she's in a pose suggesting "I wanna pee" and sometimes just sitting there.
Sometimes she scratches litter around afterwards, sometimes she doesn't.
Of course you look on line or in books and all you see is "big problem: constipation and/or urinary blockage" as a diagnosis. But she's not acting like there is a problem. She's still very playful, very active, no personality or behavioral changes. No tenderness, no cries, no problems or resistance when you pick her up and stroke her tummy (she still falls flat on her back to get a belly rub and purrs). And she still is eating and drinking normally.
And I think she is still...functioning...normally (if our 7 month kitten is producing that much byproduct...oy!)
So my question, I guess, is this: is this a normal thing for a cat to do? Want to spend some zen time away from all of us (and like me figuring that's the best place to do it)? Or should I take her to the vet (whom I am a bit irked at and have been contemplating a switch...hence the resistance, I guess)
Anybody else have a cat who does this?
Sometimes she scratches litter around afterwards, sometimes she doesn't.
Of course you look on line or in books and all you see is "big problem: constipation and/or urinary blockage" as a diagnosis. But she's not acting like there is a problem. She's still very playful, very active, no personality or behavioral changes. No tenderness, no cries, no problems or resistance when you pick her up and stroke her tummy (she still falls flat on her back to get a belly rub and purrs). And she still is eating and drinking normally.
And I think she is still...functioning...normally (if our 7 month kitten is producing that much byproduct...oy!)
So my question, I guess, is this: is this a normal thing for a cat to do? Want to spend some zen time away from all of us (and like me figuring that's the best place to do it)? Or should I take her to the vet (whom I am a bit irked at and have been contemplating a switch...hence the resistance, I guess)
Anybody else have a cat who does this?