Hi, new user, 1st post.
I got the kitten in question when it was 2-3 weeks old at the beginning of May, I was going out shopping with family, in the backseat and the kitten was in the middle of the road. We went back and got it, then took to our then local vets and picked it up that night. Had his tail amputated and his front left leg was put in a cast/bandage. We'd encourage him to 'go' by wiping his nether regions a few times a day and then putting him in the litter box, less than a week later he'd learnt to go himself(though sometimes didn't make it in time). Everything was sort of fine, he'd poo and wee in the box, no problems there.
Recently, as of I think 3 days ago I found he'd pooped on top a large kit bag of mine in the corner of my bedroom, and while I was putting clothes away in the wardrobe he went in a wee'd on the floor, this was the 1st time anything like this had happened, I cleaned up with help from my mother and didn't letting him into my bedroom again that night.
Then 2 days ago he poo'd in dining room next to the front door(this was understandable as the kitchen door had been shut and he didn't have access to the litter box in the kitchen) and later that day he pee'd in the corridor heading towards the kitchen. The pee was cleaned up then some form of white vinegar solution was sprayhed there to deter him from going there(that seems to have worked so far).
Then ealier tonight at about midnight(it's 4am at the time of writing this) I found that he'd again gone poo in the same corner of my bedroom he had previously. It was cleaned up and I'm not letting him for the time being, but this is just so odd to me.
After the 1st incident we checked the litter box to find it was in dire need of being cleaned(it's one of those privacy litter boxes so we hadn't seen it needed cleaning), but since it was cleaned he doesn't seem to have used it, at least not for pooping, though I've only found poop in that one corner of my bedroom. It's a fairly small house in terms of distance from end-to-end and he's never had trouble before, the front door opens into the dining room and living room(my bedroom is just off of these), a corridor/hallway leads into the kitchen and there's a backdoor by the kitchen, then the food and water bowls are near the kitchen door and about a metre and a half, maybe 2 metres away is the litter box just by the back door. There's 2 other cats, though they can go out if they wish, he gets along with both thoughonly one feels the same way, but there's been no real problems between them and he'd been using the litter box fine up until a few days ago.
We're going to be mopping my bedroom floor with the vinegar solution tomorrow morning but I don't want him to just keep doing in other places of the house.
Sorry for such a long post I'm 21 but never owned an animal before, just wondered if anyone had any ideas what caused him to stop using the litter tray/why he won't again and/or how to rectify this.
I got the kitten in question when it was 2-3 weeks old at the beginning of May, I was going out shopping with family, in the backseat and the kitten was in the middle of the road. We went back and got it, then took to our then local vets and picked it up that night. Had his tail amputated and his front left leg was put in a cast/bandage. We'd encourage him to 'go' by wiping his nether regions a few times a day and then putting him in the litter box, less than a week later he'd learnt to go himself(though sometimes didn't make it in time). Everything was sort of fine, he'd poo and wee in the box, no problems there.
Recently, as of I think 3 days ago I found he'd pooped on top a large kit bag of mine in the corner of my bedroom, and while I was putting clothes away in the wardrobe he went in a wee'd on the floor, this was the 1st time anything like this had happened, I cleaned up with help from my mother and didn't letting him into my bedroom again that night.
Then 2 days ago he poo'd in dining room next to the front door(this was understandable as the kitchen door had been shut and he didn't have access to the litter box in the kitchen) and later that day he pee'd in the corridor heading towards the kitchen. The pee was cleaned up then some form of white vinegar solution was sprayhed there to deter him from going there(that seems to have worked so far).
Then ealier tonight at about midnight(it's 4am at the time of writing this) I found that he'd again gone poo in the same corner of my bedroom he had previously. It was cleaned up and I'm not letting him for the time being, but this is just so odd to me.
After the 1st incident we checked the litter box to find it was in dire need of being cleaned(it's one of those privacy litter boxes so we hadn't seen it needed cleaning), but since it was cleaned he doesn't seem to have used it, at least not for pooping, though I've only found poop in that one corner of my bedroom. It's a fairly small house in terms of distance from end-to-end and he's never had trouble before, the front door opens into the dining room and living room(my bedroom is just off of these), a corridor/hallway leads into the kitchen and there's a backdoor by the kitchen, then the food and water bowls are near the kitchen door and about a metre and a half, maybe 2 metres away is the litter box just by the back door. There's 2 other cats, though they can go out if they wish, he gets along with both thoughonly one feels the same way, but there's been no real problems between them and he'd been using the litter box fine up until a few days ago.
We're going to be mopping my bedroom floor with the vinegar solution tomorrow morning but I don't want him to just keep doing in other places of the house.
Sorry for such a long post I'm 21 but never owned an animal before, just wondered if anyone had any ideas what caused him to stop using the litter tray/why he won't again and/or how to rectify this.
