Kitten Takes Poo Out Of His Litter Box

[Tibby123]

I have a 9 month boy kitten and he is litter trained. He has been using his litter normally since I have had him but in the last three months he has, five times, taken his poo out of the litter box and smeared it across the floor and then left. I thought he may have accidentally stuck on his foot or something but it clearly has been played with. Does anyone have any advice on why this is happening and what I can do?

 

[rubysmama]

Does he have long fur it might have stuck to? Or could he be slightly constipated, and dragged his butt across the floor to help get the poop to "release" ?

 

[Tobermory]

Does he have long fur it might have stuck to? Or could he be slightly constipated, and dragged his butt across the floor to help get the poop to "release" ?

Two long-haired cats here. A common enough occurrence in our household that I now carefully trim their beautiful pantaloons. Of course, that doesn’t help when the poop emerges except for the long trailing hair holding it in place! Butt Events, we call them.

 

[Tibby123]

Does he have long fur it might have stuck to? Or could he be slightly constipated, and dragged his butt across the floor to help get the poop to "release" ?

He is short haired. I'm not sure if he would be constipated as I haven't witnessed him actually doing it, however I don't think that is the case because he still doesn't the same amount at the same time as normal