Let me preface this by saying that, for personal privacy, I will not be revealing the name of my little furball.
A month ago, a friend of mine allowed me to have this wonderful little kitten. He’s 5 months old now. And what a sweet and confident little guy he is! Tail held high, prancing around the house, rubbing up on me and purring away. He’s great. For the past couple of weeks, however, he has been pooping outside of his litter box. First, he would go in the laundry room and bathroom in the basement (there is a litter box in the laundry room). Then I closed those doors and made sure there were two litter boxes upstairs. For a few days he was going just in those. Then I discovered that he has been going behind my treadmill, and in the past two days, on it. To be clear, he also uses the litter boxes, and when he pees, only the litter boxes. But he just has it in his head that it’s cool to go on flat surfaces in the basement.
I have taken him to the vet a few times because, lucky me, these stools have also been soft. They’ve done full deworming, stool samples, and a prescription diet. Nothing has worked. Right now he is on a high fiber diet that’s made it a little better, but it’s still soft and bright brown. The vet does not recommend blood work because he is healthy and growing.
This has been a nightmare for me. Every day I have to clean his messes off the floor.
A month ago, a friend of mine allowed me to have this wonderful little kitten. He’s 5 months old now. And what a sweet and confident little guy he is! Tail held high, prancing around the house, rubbing up on me and purring away. He’s great. For the past couple of weeks, however, he has been pooping outside of his litter box. First, he would go in the laundry room and bathroom in the basement (there is a litter box in the laundry room). Then I closed those doors and made sure there were two litter boxes upstairs. For a few days he was going just in those. Then I discovered that he has been going behind my treadmill, and in the past two days, on it. To be clear, he also uses the litter boxes, and when he pees, only the litter boxes. But he just has it in his head that it’s cool to go on flat surfaces in the basement.
I have taken him to the vet a few times because, lucky me, these stools have also been soft. They’ve done full deworming, stool samples, and a prescription diet. Nothing has worked. Right now he is on a high fiber diet that’s made it a little better, but it’s still soft and bright brown. The vet does not recommend blood work because he is healthy and growing.
This has been a nightmare for me. Every day I have to clean his messes off the floor.