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Summary - I'm looking for litter box advice for a deaf, cerebellar hyperplasia kitten who also has seizures who refuses to use her litter box since coming home from the vet.
7 weeks ago I rescued this little kitten from the street who is around 13 weeks old now but the size of a 6 week old. She is recovering from panleukopenia and I've been taking care of her at home and as you can see from the photos she's finally putting on weight and getting a little better (from 415g to 750g in 3 weeks) Because of panleukopenia she has cerebellar hyperplasia aka wobbly cat syndrome which causes her to have a shaky head, balance problems and a wobbly gait but generally it's fairly mild and doesn't affect her too much. She is also deaf. She has also developed seizures. She was having between 10-15 full body seizures per day but since starting anticonvulsant medication she is down to 1-2 full body seizures and a few facial seizures. When I first took her home, with her sister who sadly didn't make it, they both took to the litter box with no problems. She then spent a month in the vets ICU with no litter box. On the first night she came home she used the litter box but since then she just goes everywhere apart from the box. She pees in her bed, near her food, and she walks through it and sits in it. She's confined to a spare room but unfortunately I've had to buy a large dog crate to keep her contained. I do spend lots of time with her and let her out of the room everyday but when I do she just pees and poops on the rugs etc. I have 3 litter boxes in the room. 1 with standard clay litter, 1 with wood pellets and 1 with puppy pads. I've tried putting her in several times per day and using her paws to dig and using my own hands to dig but nothing seems to be working. I really don't know what to do. She can't stay confined to a room for the rest of her life but i can't have her peeing and pooping all over my house. I dont know if its because she is still unwell, or if it's a bad habit from not having a litter box at the vet. Any advice would be much appreciated.
Summary - I'm looking for litter box advice for a deaf, cerebellar hyperplasia kitten who also has seizures who refuses to use her litter box since coming home from the vet.
7 weeks ago I rescued this little kitten from the street who is around 13 weeks old now but the size of a 6 week old. She is recovering from panleukopenia and I've been taking care of her at home and as you can see from the photos she's finally putting on weight and getting a little better (from 415g to 750g in 3 weeks) Because of panleukopenia she has cerebellar hyperplasia aka wobbly cat syndrome which causes her to have a shaky head, balance problems and a wobbly gait but generally it's fairly mild and doesn't affect her too much. She is also deaf. She has also developed seizures. She was having between 10-15 full body seizures per day but since starting anticonvulsant medication she is down to 1-2 full body seizures and a few facial seizures. When I first took her home, with her sister who sadly didn't make it, they both took to the litter box with no problems. She then spent a month in the vets ICU with no litter box. On the first night she came home she used the litter box but since then she just goes everywhere apart from the box. She pees in her bed, near her food, and she walks through it and sits in it. She's confined to a spare room but unfortunately I've had to buy a large dog crate to keep her contained. I do spend lots of time with her and let her out of the room everyday but when I do she just pees and poops on the rugs etc. I have 3 litter boxes in the room. 1 with standard clay litter, 1 with wood pellets and 1 with puppy pads. I've tried putting her in several times per day and using her paws to dig and using my own hands to dig but nothing seems to be working. I really don't know what to do. She can't stay confined to a room for the rest of her life but i can't have her peeing and pooping all over my house. I dont know if its because she is still unwell, or if it's a bad habit from not having a litter box at the vet. Any advice would be much appreciated.