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I posted about my boy Poe a few weeks ago. He was going outside the box and we found out he had a bladder blood clot and tapeworm. Well, both seem to have passed but he is still going outside the box. In the middle of our ripping up of all the carpet, we're pretty positive at this point that he's been only using the cat box half the time. Case in point: His personal litterbox is upstairs in my bathroom, door open and everything. He instead walks down the hall to my parents room and pees right on the rug and saunters back out.
The litter is impeccable. I'm cleaning it morning/evening and am using Cat Attract. I have feliway plugins through the house. I'm figuring that at this point, we actually have to litter train him.
I posted about my boy Poe a few weeks ago. He was going outside the box and we found out he had a bladder blood clot and tapeworm. Well, both seem to have passed but he is still going outside the box. In the middle of our ripping up of all the carpet, we're pretty positive at this point that he's been only using the cat box half the time. Case in point: His personal litterbox is upstairs in my bathroom, door open and everything. He instead walks down the hall to my parents room and pees right on the rug and saunters back out.
The litter is impeccable. I'm cleaning it morning/evening and am using Cat Attract. I have feliway plugins through the house. I'm figuring that at this point, we actually have to litter train him.
- Poe was 5 years old when he was picked up by the ASPCA in September 2016. He was a fully intact male and former stray. Within the month, he was neutered, and three weeks later I adopted him. So he went from a man of the streets to coming into my home. I, naively, assumed he would use the litterbox but realized that while he figured out what it was, and had used it, he doesn't care.
- I have identified three new [strays?] cats that have come around in the past couple months, but they certainly weren't here a year ago. When we first got him, we noticed defecation in out of the way spots.
- I'm going to buy a different bag of cat attract litter and try a different litter pan as well to see if he prefers the low sided pan. His first "litter box" at our house was a paper box lid that he used just fine, but now I think he was also peeing in other corners of the room.