I hate two indoor cats I keep at my apartment. I just got back from my parents home where I spent spring break. I took Gus and Liz along with me. I brought some of their normal Pro Plan cat food along with us, but they also ate some left over cat foor at my parents house. I think it was another Purina brand, not one currently on the recall list.
They both seemed to be going to the bathroom normally there. We got back to my apartment here on Saturday afternoon/evening and, after being gone for a week, they were obviously very glad to be home.
I hadn't noticed any behavior stranger than normal foe Gus. He's my "quirky cat" who yowls and meows at everything and always seemed to love spending time in the litter box. I've always been moderately concerned that might be indicative of some sort of problem, but he just seems to genuinely like playing in it.
I woke up at about 4AM this morning to get a drink and noticed there were a few clumps of bowel movement on the floor outside their covered litter box and three 2" puddles of urine. Whether or not I'm being trigger happy because of all the recent recalls, I'm not sure, but that never happens. They're both about 3 years old and they never "go" on the floor.
"Is the litter box so bad already that they're not wanting to go in there...?", I wondered. I took the top off to check and, after sifting through with the scooper, I found only a few pieces of bowel movement and only one large clump of urine. (Litter was clean when we got back and hasn't been cleaned until just then).
I have no idea whether or not this should be normal or which was to tell which cat is "going" since I'm rarely home during the day (grad school). It's so hard to tell. Water and food seem to be disappearing from their bowl, but I so freaked out by this that I'm not sure what normal is.
Basically, what has me freaked out is the tiny urine puddles by the litter box. After that anomaly, everything else seems suspect, so it's hard to separate that from what may be normal.
So... I feel ridiculous... I don't even know what my question is...
I guess I'm just curious about how many "urine puddles" for two cats should have been in the litter box from 5PM Saturday until now (5AM Monday) and what never-before-happening puddles of urine near the litter box could be. Please help!
They both seemed to be going to the bathroom normally there. We got back to my apartment here on Saturday afternoon/evening and, after being gone for a week, they were obviously very glad to be home.
I hadn't noticed any behavior stranger than normal foe Gus. He's my "quirky cat" who yowls and meows at everything and always seemed to love spending time in the litter box. I've always been moderately concerned that might be indicative of some sort of problem, but he just seems to genuinely like playing in it.
I woke up at about 4AM this morning to get a drink and noticed there were a few clumps of bowel movement on the floor outside their covered litter box and three 2" puddles of urine. Whether or not I'm being trigger happy because of all the recent recalls, I'm not sure, but that never happens. They're both about 3 years old and they never "go" on the floor.
"Is the litter box so bad already that they're not wanting to go in there...?", I wondered. I took the top off to check and, after sifting through with the scooper, I found only a few pieces of bowel movement and only one large clump of urine. (Litter was clean when we got back and hasn't been cleaned until just then).
I have no idea whether or not this should be normal or which was to tell which cat is "going" since I'm rarely home during the day (grad school). It's so hard to tell. Water and food seem to be disappearing from their bowl, but I so freaked out by this that I'm not sure what normal is.
Basically, what has me freaked out is the tiny urine puddles by the litter box. After that anomaly, everything else seems suspect, so it's hard to separate that from what may be normal.
So... I feel ridiculous... I don't even know what my question is...
I guess I'm just curious about how many "urine puddles" for two cats should have been in the litter box from 5PM Saturday until now (5AM Monday) and what never-before-happening puddles of urine near the litter box could be. Please help!