My elderly (18years) cat has slowly become less active over the last year or two. This is starting to present a few health problems for her.
As we have been living in the same place for years nows, I think the places that she is toileting are becoming full with faeces. This leaves badly smelling dirt in and around her claws. With her advancing age she is grooming less and her claws are starting to weep slightly.
She is very resistant to my attempts to clean her claws, mostly it's just annoying for her but sometimes is definately painful. The dirt is caked on and quite hard on some of them.
She has never been trained to toilet indoors in kitty litter and i'm not sure it would be viable to try and teach such an old cat.
Does anyone have any suggestions for my problem?
As we have been living in the same place for years nows, I think the places that she is toileting are becoming full with faeces. This leaves badly smelling dirt in and around her claws. With her advancing age she is grooming less and her claws are starting to weep slightly.
She is very resistant to my attempts to clean her claws, mostly it's just annoying for her but sometimes is definately painful. The dirt is caked on and quite hard on some of them.
She has never been trained to toilet indoors in kitty litter and i'm not sure it would be viable to try and teach such an old cat.
Does anyone have any suggestions for my problem?