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I've been doing some reading on why cats poop on beds but my situation is a little unique. I had my cat for around 7 months - she originally belonged to my crazy landlord, who rehomed her with a hoarder who kept her outdoors 24/7 for a couple months.
When she lived with me she was definitely an anxious cat, but had perfect bathroom habits. My landlord had kept her as an indoor/outdoor cat for several years and kept her litterbox locked indoors, so Smo often went hours at a time holding her eliminations. During one particularly stressful period she started peeing small amounts frequently (not due to UTI), but was scrupulous about using her box.
We trapped Smo at the hoarder's place and brought her home on Monday night, and for a few days she used her box normally - she wasn't burying her eliminations completely 100% of the time but always went in her box. Last night though, we caught her digging in her box and squatting as though she was going to poop. When I checked the box she hadn't gone, and minutes later she was on my bed digging furiously at the sheet. Soon after that she squatted and pooped in the middle of the bed.
The only thing I can think of that may have caused this is that she escaped from the room we've been keeping her in, and ran around the house for a short while. We finally lured her back into the bedroom by opening an adjoining door to the foyer, where she used to hang out all the time - she hadn't accessed this room since she arrived home. She pooped on the bed around 20 minutes after all this went down.
My best guess is that she was really excited from getting out, but don't know why she would poop on the bed because of that. Other than that I'm thinking she could have worms from living outside. Also, I know she was eliminating in the dirt outdoors since a box wasn't provided for her. I strongly doubt it's a constipation issue making her associate the box with pain, because she's been eating a ton of wet food and producing very normal-looking poop.
Does anyone know why she would do this? And how do I prevent it from happening again? In my apartment I can only keep her in my tiny bedroom, and would really like to stop her from doing this in the future.
When she lived with me she was definitely an anxious cat, but had perfect bathroom habits. My landlord had kept her as an indoor/outdoor cat for several years and kept her litterbox locked indoors, so Smo often went hours at a time holding her eliminations. During one particularly stressful period she started peeing small amounts frequently (not due to UTI), but was scrupulous about using her box.
We trapped Smo at the hoarder's place and brought her home on Monday night, and for a few days she used her box normally - she wasn't burying her eliminations completely 100% of the time but always went in her box. Last night though, we caught her digging in her box and squatting as though she was going to poop. When I checked the box she hadn't gone, and minutes later she was on my bed digging furiously at the sheet. Soon after that she squatted and pooped in the middle of the bed.
The only thing I can think of that may have caused this is that she escaped from the room we've been keeping her in, and ran around the house for a short while. We finally lured her back into the bedroom by opening an adjoining door to the foyer, where she used to hang out all the time - she hadn't accessed this room since she arrived home. She pooped on the bed around 20 minutes after all this went down.
My best guess is that she was really excited from getting out, but don't know why she would poop on the bed because of that. Other than that I'm thinking she could have worms from living outside. Also, I know she was eliminating in the dirt outdoors since a box wasn't provided for her. I strongly doubt it's a constipation issue making her associate the box with pain, because she's been eating a ton of wet food and producing very normal-looking poop.
Does anyone know why she would do this? And how do I prevent it from happening again? In my apartment I can only keep her in my tiny bedroom, and would really like to stop her from doing this in the future.
