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Hi everyone!
I am new here as I am a ~fairly new cat owner and am running out of ideas as to what is going on with my cat. I have two cats: one is a female, spayed, torbie (and yes-she has a lot of the tortie personality in her!) who is a little over a year old. She was our first cat. Our second is a male classic marble tabby (he's a beautiful kitty) neutered, and just turned one. Our torbie was our first cat and we got our male kitty about 5 months after we got her. They get along great and hit it off pretty quickly.
The last month and a half or so our tortie has been pooping right outside one of the litter boxes (and I have noticed this is the ONLY litter box that she likes to use-we have 3 in our apartment). This was her only litter box when we first got her so I think she may just be attached/possessive of it. When she poops outside the litterbox, it's right next to it/in front of it and she does her best to cover it up with whatever she can move there (so far a blanket, shoes, cat toys, etc). My husband and I decided to take her to the vet. Exams came back normal-but they did find she had a full anal gland and expressed it but other than that they said she was a normal kitty except for being a little overweight. We took her to second vet to get a second opinion and he basically said the same thing, healthy just a little fat. He recommended we put her on a diet. We went from using Nulo (he said this might be too rich for her as she was also passing awful gas) to Science Diet Healthy Weight.
The problem has continued and has shown no signs of stopping. At first it took us a while to figure out which cat was doing it but she has become rather shameless about it and now does it when we are around. She's a very quiet kitty (she doesn't meow-only chirps and not very often) but I have noticed that when she is pooping, she begins to chirp so I wonder if it is causing her pain? Like she may be constipated? We will be taking her back to the vet this week but I am wondering if there are any other things we could try?
I am not sure if this is relevant, but I wanted to mention that we did change our litter (from clumping to paper pellets) because the clumping kind kept getting very stuck to our male kitty's paws and our vet recommended we use the pellet kind. This was about 4 months ago but I am not sure if that could be a factor. We scoop the litterboxes twice a day (morning and night) and they are fed twice a day (wet and dry).
Any insight/suggestions/help would be greatly appreciated! I often lurk here but decided to finally make an account as I have no idea what else to try. Thank you!!!
I am new here as I am a ~fairly new cat owner and am running out of ideas as to what is going on with my cat. I have two cats: one is a female, spayed, torbie (and yes-she has a lot of the tortie personality in her!) who is a little over a year old. She was our first cat. Our second is a male classic marble tabby (he's a beautiful kitty) neutered, and just turned one. Our torbie was our first cat and we got our male kitty about 5 months after we got her. They get along great and hit it off pretty quickly.
The last month and a half or so our tortie has been pooping right outside one of the litter boxes (and I have noticed this is the ONLY litter box that she likes to use-we have 3 in our apartment). This was her only litter box when we first got her so I think she may just be attached/possessive of it. When she poops outside the litterbox, it's right next to it/in front of it and she does her best to cover it up with whatever she can move there (so far a blanket, shoes, cat toys, etc). My husband and I decided to take her to the vet. Exams came back normal-but they did find she had a full anal gland and expressed it but other than that they said she was a normal kitty except for being a little overweight. We took her to second vet to get a second opinion and he basically said the same thing, healthy just a little fat. He recommended we put her on a diet. We went from using Nulo (he said this might be too rich for her as she was also passing awful gas) to Science Diet Healthy Weight.
The problem has continued and has shown no signs of stopping. At first it took us a while to figure out which cat was doing it but she has become rather shameless about it and now does it when we are around. She's a very quiet kitty (she doesn't meow-only chirps and not very often) but I have noticed that when she is pooping, she begins to chirp so I wonder if it is causing her pain? Like she may be constipated? We will be taking her back to the vet this week but I am wondering if there are any other things we could try?
I am not sure if this is relevant, but I wanted to mention that we did change our litter (from clumping to paper pellets) because the clumping kind kept getting very stuck to our male kitty's paws and our vet recommended we use the pellet kind. This was about 4 months ago but I am not sure if that could be a factor. We scoop the litterboxes twice a day (morning and night) and they are fed twice a day (wet and dry).
Any insight/suggestions/help would be greatly appreciated! I often lurk here but decided to finally make an account as I have no idea what else to try. Thank you!!!
