Hello All,
I searched the 'Behavior' forum and couldn't find any similar posting, so here's my problem: I have a 12 year old male cat (neutered, of course) who has decided that he no longer wants to poop in the cat box. The cat box (2 of them, actually) are located in our basement and this cat has been in this house for 11 years, so it's not like he doesn't know where they are. We are fastidious about cleaning the boxes, so that's not why he's decided not to use them (actually, he uses them to pee in, but not to poop). We tried a different type of cat litter (scoopable), which was when he decided to stop using it for pooping. So we changed back to the old kind of cat litter that we empty out every week, but he still hasn't reverted back to using it for No. 2. I am at whit's end: I can never catch him in the act, so I can't yell at him for doing something naughty. And I am totally fed up with cleaning up the floor after him. What can I do??
Doug
I searched the 'Behavior' forum and couldn't find any similar posting, so here's my problem: I have a 12 year old male cat (neutered, of course) who has decided that he no longer wants to poop in the cat box. The cat box (2 of them, actually) are located in our basement and this cat has been in this house for 11 years, so it's not like he doesn't know where they are. We are fastidious about cleaning the boxes, so that's not why he's decided not to use them (actually, he uses them to pee in, but not to poop). We tried a different type of cat litter (scoopable), which was when he decided to stop using it for pooping. So we changed back to the old kind of cat litter that we empty out every week, but he still hasn't reverted back to using it for No. 2. I am at whit's end: I can never catch him in the act, so I can't yell at him for doing something naughty. And I am totally fed up with cleaning up the floor after him. What can I do??
Doug