My cat was recently diagnosed with hyperthyroidism. Prior to the diagnosis, she was avoiding her box by peeing on bathmats and only using her box for pooping. Currently, she has been on her meds for over 30 days and is showing overall improvement (decreased hunger and thirst, decrease in shedding, weight gain, etc.) However, I am not seeing improvement in going back to the litter box.
One issue is that she did not want to take pills. Rather than cause anxiousness, I crush her pills in food twice a day and she appears not to mind. I do wonder that, if she doesn't eat every morsel on the bowl, is she getting a full dose. The vet can give me a prescription for a gel that goes in her ear, instead of pills, but I haven't yet made a decision to do this.
My theory is that when she was ailing, she didn't feel like going down the stairs to the litter box, so she used our bathrooms which were handier. So I removed the bathroom rug and set a second litter box in the same spot. However, she is not covering her business as is the feline instinct to do.
Please let me know if I am missing something. By the way, we return to the vet on Friday.
One issue is that she did not want to take pills. Rather than cause anxiousness, I crush her pills in food twice a day and she appears not to mind. I do wonder that, if she doesn't eat every morsel on the bowl, is she getting a full dose. The vet can give me a prescription for a gel that goes in her ear, instead of pills, but I haven't yet made a decision to do this.
My theory is that when she was ailing, she didn't feel like going down the stairs to the litter box, so she used our bathrooms which were handier. So I removed the bathroom rug and set a second litter box in the same spot. However, she is not covering her business as is the feline instinct to do.
Please let me know if I am missing something. By the way, we return to the vet on Friday.
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