Hello
I am having a little trouble with my cat Misty Mae and finding where she is pooping, or if she is pooping at all.
She is a 10 month old siamese who was recently an outside cat (when we were home) and an inside cat when we were not. When we were not home, she was confined to the spare bedroom where all her toys, food and cat box are. I would clean her cat box out and never find any poop. Weird. Then I thought maybe she was holding it until we got home and she could go outside.
Two weeks ago she was outside and we were calling her because we were going to be leaving. She was very good about staying near home and would often stay in our yard. We never saw her. Long sad story short, the day we were looking for her a lady picked her up and took her to the pound because she was chasing birds and squirrles in her yard. The pound we got her from didnt micro-chip her properly so we didnt know she was at the pound for 7 days. Anyway, we got her back and she has now been converted into an inside cat. She doesnt like it that much but I dont want her to go missing again.
So now that she is always inside and only allowed to go into a few rooms in the house, I imagined i would find some poop in her cat box. None, none in 2 weeks. Not even a little. Our house doesnt smell like it, we have checked all the places she might have gone. We havent seen any or smelled any. She eats dry cat food like a pig and recently since she got back from the pound she has been on medication from being sick so I have been giving her wet cat food which i can hardly get out of the can before she eats it. She drinks water a lot (saw her this morning), so I dont know what it could be.
We called the vet and they said to confine her even more and maybe give her some mineral oil and see if that helps. If not, bring her in. Has this happened to anyone else? Suggestions?
I am having a little trouble with my cat Misty Mae and finding where she is pooping, or if she is pooping at all.
She is a 10 month old siamese who was recently an outside cat (when we were home) and an inside cat when we were not. When we were not home, she was confined to the spare bedroom where all her toys, food and cat box are. I would clean her cat box out and never find any poop. Weird. Then I thought maybe she was holding it until we got home and she could go outside.
Two weeks ago she was outside and we were calling her because we were going to be leaving. She was very good about staying near home and would often stay in our yard. We never saw her. Long sad story short, the day we were looking for her a lady picked her up and took her to the pound because she was chasing birds and squirrles in her yard. The pound we got her from didnt micro-chip her properly so we didnt know she was at the pound for 7 days. Anyway, we got her back and she has now been converted into an inside cat. She doesnt like it that much but I dont want her to go missing again.
So now that she is always inside and only allowed to go into a few rooms in the house, I imagined i would find some poop in her cat box. None, none in 2 weeks. Not even a little. Our house doesnt smell like it, we have checked all the places she might have gone. We havent seen any or smelled any. She eats dry cat food like a pig and recently since she got back from the pound she has been on medication from being sick so I have been giving her wet cat food which i can hardly get out of the can before she eats it. She drinks water a lot (saw her this morning), so I dont know what it could be.
We called the vet and they said to confine her even more and maybe give her some mineral oil and see if that helps. If not, bring her in. Has this happened to anyone else? Suggestions?
