Why is my cat pooping on the floor all over the house in stead of his litter box?
Background:
Our cat Sherman is going to be about 2 years old in February. We adopted him from a kill shelter last February and they said he was about a year old. They caught him as a stray.
We took him home and he was fine. The only problem we have had with him is when he ate some string (plastic) from our son's b-day balloons. He was pooping and puking in the bathroom by his liter box (which was fine because the floor was linoleum).
We had problems with the house so we moved in November of 2007.
He took the move well, except he has broken out of the house 2 times now. He always stays on the porch and meows until we realize that he is missing.
Now we have a problem:
We have lived here for 3 going on 4 months. He adjusted perfectly fine. Everything couldn't be going better. We feed him dry cat food (currently it is 9Lives Daily Essentials; Healthy Skin & Coat w/ Omega 3 Fatty Acids) and usually half a can of tuna twice a week (so about a can a week).
This week my husband was walking down the kitty supply aisle in the store and saw some wet cat food on sale and thought it would be a nice change. It is Disney The Aristocats brand... various flavors. We fed him one can and Sherman sniffed at it and turned away but eventually ate it. A couple of days later while I was making myself some tuna salad I gave him another can of the wet cat food. The next morning or the morning after Sherman pooped on the floor. Not just in one spot. He pooped in three. One by our son's bathroom door. One in the corner in the dining room and a line of poop on the kitchen floor. All wet and soupy. We cleaned it up and went about our business.
Later as I was doing some homework and everyone was off doing their thing Sherman started the pathetic meowing and walking in a circle in the kitchen. I ignored it as he usually does this when he is near the back door. Then I noticed him sitting in the dining room cleaning his rear. So I went and looked and he had pooped again. We figured it was the food or something so I cleaned it up and he was fine the rest of the night.
The next day he was all playful and his normal self. We were eating dinner and my hubby gave him a piece of pork, which he downed like crazy. I told my hubby if that made him sick he was cleaning it up. Sherman was fine all day and the rest of the night. He was sitting with me in bed and left to go eat. My hubby heard him meowing in the hall again and went to check on him... he didn't see any poop so he thought he was meowing over the door again. I never noticed him come back into the bedroom. I went out to tell my husband something and came back into the bedroom and smelled poop again. I looked in the bedroom and in the bathroom it stunk. I turned on the light and saw a puddle of poop next to the toilet. I called hubby in to clean it up. We have now been keeping all doors closed unless we are in them, awake. When we sleep we keep the door shut.
Today he has had only dry food. He has not meowed like that and he has not pooped anywhere. Why is he not going to the litter box? We just don't understand what is going on. The only thing we have done any differently is change his litter to "The Perfect Litter" which is supposed to detect Flutid in cats by changing the litter color. He has had no problems before and we keep his box scooped. We have been using this litter for about 2 months now.
What should we do? We rent. We don't understand what is going on with him and why he is doing this now. We thought about making him an indoor/outdoor cat but when I open the door he won't go out. If this keeps going on we are going to have to get rid of a really awesome cat. We would all be heart broken and so would our 4-year old son.
Help!!!
Anytime you change food, or give them something different to eat, expect tummy trouble.
This is from both the new food you fed him, and the pork hubby gave him.
His system didn't completely recover from the new food when it got something different, which irritated the situation all over again.
When animals are sick, all bets are off. You can't predict their behavior.
They may get cranky and snap/bite, they may hide from beloved human friends, and they definitely don't "go" where they should.
The sickness confuses animals.
He might have cramps, or it just might not feel like he should get to the litter box.
It could be he couldn't make it to the box.
Once he's better, he'll be fine.
FEED HIM NOTHING BUT THE FOOD HE'S USED TO.
Let his system recover. It'll take about a week.
Confine him until he's better. Just keep him in the bathroom.
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