Peaches is a roughly 9-11 year old cat, who I just got from a rescue. He has had issues in the past, essentially had a surgery to have most (if not all) of his colon removed about 2 years ago. At the rescue, because he was with sooooo many other special needs cats and needed to be separated from their food, he was in a cage for a few years, so it seemed that his poop problems were under control. After his surgery he was still becoming impacted, so he is on a strict diet of Hill's prescription W/D wet food with Miralax.
He's been with me almost two weeks ago now, and he's awesome. He has a great personality and is very smart. **He was however, having major diarrhea issues. In the box, out of the box...basically every time i walked into the room where he is, i was cleaning up poop. He even had a couple of diarrhea explosions while i was there. Poor guy. I adjusted the litter, added a second box to his room, been to the vet, did a fecal analysis. Urinating seems ok, outside of two incidents outside the box, which one was early on, and the second was after the vet visit so im OK with chalking that up to stress from the visit, vaccines, and nail clipping.
Anyways, the vet recommended we reduce the miralax and see how we do. So its a few days later, and he seems WAAAAY better with the diarrhea. But still, on occasion, will poop outside the box. On furniture. And its not diarrhea which was totally unintentional, this seems intentional. He is wearing a pheromone collar to reduce stress. He is meowing like crazy before i get to him to feed him in the mornings, and wonder if thats whats happening. I clean out the box every night before i go to sleep and throughout the day. I have another cat in the house, a 14 year old girl who just moved in about 3 months ago, and she's very timid, free feeds dry food in addition to her wet (which he needs to be separated from), so for now, i have to take this introduction very slowly and he is kept in a room of his own. I work from home, and intentionally spend a good amount of time each day and night in the room with him, again, to reduce stress.
Does anybody have any thoughts on how and if i might be able to reduce or eliminate this out of the box pooping? I'm kind of afraid once he is in the rest of the house, that i will be finding poop everywhere including in y bed! Sorry for so much info, but I figured best you know it all, as i try to determine to what extent this could be behaviour/stress related vs his condition which seemed that it had been resolved with his special diet.
He's been with me almost two weeks ago now, and he's awesome. He has a great personality and is very smart. **He was however, having major diarrhea issues. In the box, out of the box...basically every time i walked into the room where he is, i was cleaning up poop. He even had a couple of diarrhea explosions while i was there. Poor guy. I adjusted the litter, added a second box to his room, been to the vet, did a fecal analysis. Urinating seems ok, outside of two incidents outside the box, which one was early on, and the second was after the vet visit so im OK with chalking that up to stress from the visit, vaccines, and nail clipping.
Anyways, the vet recommended we reduce the miralax and see how we do. So its a few days later, and he seems WAAAAY better with the diarrhea. But still, on occasion, will poop outside the box. On furniture. And its not diarrhea which was totally unintentional, this seems intentional. He is wearing a pheromone collar to reduce stress. He is meowing like crazy before i get to him to feed him in the mornings, and wonder if thats whats happening. I clean out the box every night before i go to sleep and throughout the day. I have another cat in the house, a 14 year old girl who just moved in about 3 months ago, and she's very timid, free feeds dry food in addition to her wet (which he needs to be separated from), so for now, i have to take this introduction very slowly and he is kept in a room of his own. I work from home, and intentionally spend a good amount of time each day and night in the room with him, again, to reduce stress.
Does anybody have any thoughts on how and if i might be able to reduce or eliminate this out of the box pooping? I'm kind of afraid once he is in the rest of the house, that i will be finding poop everywhere including in y bed! Sorry for so much info, but I figured best you know it all, as i try to determine to what extent this could be behaviour/stress related vs his condition which seemed that it had been resolved with his special diet.