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We adopted Hester last June when she was about 8 weeks old. She's now almost ten months.
She was our last and youngest of five cats, arriving just three days after Macbeth.
During the summer she peed in the bathtub quite a lot, and occasionally pooped in there too. The vet checkd her for UTI and she did a course of antibiotics. As far as I know the UTI is gone. I mentioned the poop and took a sample to the vet but he just looked at it visually rather than doing an exam, and said it looked normal. He felt that she was only pooping for behavioural reasons even though we have five cat boxes and they're cleaned at least once a day each, but sometimes more.
Since then she's stopped having pee issues, but she poops on the floor near a litter box about 4-5 times a week. Sometimes it's a tile floor and sometimes it's a wood floor. When I catch her in the act I notice she scratches the floor first as if it's litter.
It's actually easy to pick it up with a tissue because it's quite firm and doesn't leave a mess. I can flush it instead of having to scoop from the box, but I don't want this to become a habit and the vet doesn't seem interested in doing anything about it.
Ideas?
She was our last and youngest of five cats, arriving just three days after Macbeth.
During the summer she peed in the bathtub quite a lot, and occasionally pooped in there too. The vet checkd her for UTI and she did a course of antibiotics. As far as I know the UTI is gone. I mentioned the poop and took a sample to the vet but he just looked at it visually rather than doing an exam, and said it looked normal. He felt that she was only pooping for behavioural reasons even though we have five cat boxes and they're cleaned at least once a day each, but sometimes more.
Since then she's stopped having pee issues, but she poops on the floor near a litter box about 4-5 times a week. Sometimes it's a tile floor and sometimes it's a wood floor. When I catch her in the act I notice she scratches the floor first as if it's litter.
It's actually easy to pick it up with a tissue because it's quite firm and doesn't leave a mess. I can flush it instead of having to scoop from the box, but I don't want this to become a habit and the vet doesn't seem interested in doing anything about it.
Ideas?