Last October my mom and I adopted a 5 year old cat from a shelter. She was found as a stray but was clearly owned by somebody before because she is declawed and spayed. We wondered why nobody looked for her and now joke it's probably because she doesn't use her darn litterbox properly. I've done a lot of reading online and swear I've just about tried everything suggested. She has three different sized open litterboxes in different spots around the basement, no other animals in the house, use enzyme cleaner whenever she poops on the floor, have tried multiple different litters and still can't get her to reliably poop in there.
She pees in the litter boxes no problem. And she will sometimes poop in one of them. I'd say maybe 30-40% of the time. I can't figure out any rhyme or reason for the times she does actually poop in the box, seems totally random. I clean the box at least once a day, usually twice. Sometimes there will be a couple pee clumps in there and she will still go poop in there, other times it will be totally clean and she'll go poop outside it. When she goes on the floor it's usually within a meter of her Main Litterbox, but occasionally it will be in a completely random spot of the room. She never goes pee or poop outside of the basement though, so I don't think location is the problem. I currently have her on Dr. Elsey's Cat Attract litter because its the one she seems to like most and that stuff ain't cheap but still not getting a high success rate.
She doesn't seem stressed, lounges around the house like a relaxed queen, and the poop is healthy. I feed her expensive af wet cat food. We took her to the vet when we brought her home and she got a clean bill of health. She has a cat tower, window perches, and I play with her with toys. I have no clue what else to do and the reason I'm getting desperate is because I'm living on residence for uni this fall and the plan was my mom takes care of her for a year until i move out of residence and get an apartment, but my mom says if this continues she will be giving her away and I can't blame her for not wanting to clean poop off the floor almost every single day. Help!!
She pees in the litter boxes no problem. And she will sometimes poop in one of them. I'd say maybe 30-40% of the time. I can't figure out any rhyme or reason for the times she does actually poop in the box, seems totally random. I clean the box at least once a day, usually twice. Sometimes there will be a couple pee clumps in there and she will still go poop in there, other times it will be totally clean and she'll go poop outside it. When she goes on the floor it's usually within a meter of her Main Litterbox, but occasionally it will be in a completely random spot of the room. She never goes pee or poop outside of the basement though, so I don't think location is the problem. I currently have her on Dr. Elsey's Cat Attract litter because its the one she seems to like most and that stuff ain't cheap but still not getting a high success rate.
She doesn't seem stressed, lounges around the house like a relaxed queen, and the poop is healthy. I feed her expensive af wet cat food. We took her to the vet when we brought her home and she got a clean bill of health. She has a cat tower, window perches, and I play with her with toys. I have no clue what else to do and the reason I'm getting desperate is because I'm living on residence for uni this fall and the plan was my mom takes care of her for a year until i move out of residence and get an apartment, but my mom says if this continues she will be giving her away and I can't blame her for not wanting to clean poop off the floor almost every single day. Help!!
