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So we got a new kitten Friday, he's 9 weeks old. I knew going into the situation to not expect very much in terms of his behavior/health/fleas/etc tbh. He came from a friend of my sister's who had "too many cats" and anyway, long story short, he didn't come from the best conditions though I'm starting to think they were worse than I assumed. Kitten came with fleas, leaky eyes/sneezing, and he's only pottying near his litter box.
As for the leaky eyes - my vet said since it's clear liquid and he's running/eating/playing/etc normal that he'll be fine to wait until his check up on the 8th (unless things get worse obviously). But could this be to blame for his missing his box? Maybe he can't smell very well? As soon as he got here, we put him in his room, showed him his box. He peed next to it a few hours later. I caught him in the act so I picked him up and he finished in the box. Then later that night the same with a poop. Caught him in the act - moved him to the box where he finished it. Every time I place him in the box to finish, he gets out and scratches at the ground around the box in an attempt to cover his business. We don't scold him or anything, just pick him up and move him, he doesn't seem to mind. I know I've missed some pees because we aren't in there with him 24/7 but there's never any new spots where he went in the box without us putting him there.
But.
I went in there earlier to clean around the box, spray an enzyme cleaner on the carper around, etc and in just the few minutes while the box was moved little man decided to go pee in a new spot...nowhere near the box. I figured maybe this was just bad timing, he had to go while I was cleaning (ugh!) but since then he went #2 and again, nowhere near the box, completely on the other side of the room. Any tips? The person I got him from warned me that "sometimes he misses the box" but after talking to my sister, we realized they told us two different things. They told my sister that he "has a corner" at her house where he liked to go. So...that's that.
As for the leaky eyes - my vet said since it's clear liquid and he's running/eating/playing/etc normal that he'll be fine to wait until his check up on the 8th (unless things get worse obviously). But could this be to blame for his missing his box? Maybe he can't smell very well? As soon as he got here, we put him in his room, showed him his box. He peed next to it a few hours later. I caught him in the act so I picked him up and he finished in the box. Then later that night the same with a poop. Caught him in the act - moved him to the box where he finished it. Every time I place him in the box to finish, he gets out and scratches at the ground around the box in an attempt to cover his business. We don't scold him or anything, just pick him up and move him, he doesn't seem to mind. I know I've missed some pees because we aren't in there with him 24/7 but there's never any new spots where he went in the box without us putting him there.
But.
I went in there earlier to clean around the box, spray an enzyme cleaner on the carper around, etc and in just the few minutes while the box was moved little man decided to go pee in a new spot...nowhere near the box. I figured maybe this was just bad timing, he had to go while I was cleaning (ugh!) but since then he went #2 and again, nowhere near the box, completely on the other side of the room. Any tips? The person I got him from warned me that "sometimes he misses the box" but after talking to my sister, we realized they told us two different things. They told my sister that he "has a corner" at her house where he liked to go. So...that's that.