I really need some suggestions about my 7 year old cat Fritz. He is the smaller (8 lbs) of the 2 cats. He has always been shy around people, and always has taken a back seat to the other outgoing cat. Also, Fritz used to have his dry nurse, Lucy the dog, who died a couple of years ago. Fritz has often just spazzed out, scream uncontrollably and running around teh house like a madman. But in the last 6 months or so, he has really gone over the edge. He will start yelling as if being abused, and then stop wherever he is to take a dump on floor, carpet, under bed, or wherever.
I don't think it is constipation--the feces is soft. And he has been checked out by vet with no abnormal findings. She thinks it is a chemical imbalance. We had him on amyltryptilline---didn't get better. Now he is on phenobarbitol (low dose) for the last couple of days. I've kept him in my large bathroom for the last couple of days, with food, water, litter box. Instead of using the box, he took a defecated 2 feet away from it on the floor.
I am at wits end. HELP!
I don't think it is constipation--the feces is soft. And he has been checked out by vet with no abnormal findings. She thinks it is a chemical imbalance. We had him on amyltryptilline---didn't get better. Now he is on phenobarbitol (low dose) for the last couple of days. I've kept him in my large bathroom for the last couple of days, with food, water, litter box. Instead of using the box, he took a defecated 2 feet away from it on the floor.
I am at wits end. HELP!