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I adopted a two-month-old kitten recently and for the first few days, he was doing great in the litter box. He was clean and covered everything up. However, in the last few days he's gotten very messy and gets poop everywhere. He gets it stuck on the sides of the litter box, on the wall, and in his fur and feet. The change came out of nowhere and I can't figure out why. I have been feeding him the same diet that he was given at the shelter. The only thing I can think of is that after confining him in the bathroom for the first few days, we've been letting him out to play in the living room and he's been using our adult cat's litter box because it's located closer. The kitten's box is filled with anti-clumping clay litter given to us by the shelter, and the adult cat uses clumping clay litter. I don't know if him using a different litter affected his litter box behavior completely but it feels like a sudden 180 and I'm absolutely baffled. I'm of course prepared to put in the extra effort to care for him and I'm expecting him to need to figure things out as a young kitten, but it's a bit frustrating having to deal with poop tracked everywhere multiple times a day, so any advice would be greatly appreciated.