I do not know what is going on with our 8.5 year old female, spayed cat.
A little background:
Kitty has always had a sensitive digestive tract. We finally figured out that when she is carefully brushed on a regular basis and has access 24/7 to cat grass, her vomiting is limited to throwing up the cat grass she ingests. Otherwise, she can vomit her food 3-4 times a week.
We've had a stressful year+-- in Jan 08 we left our home, moved across the ocean, lived with my parents in their home and with their cat for a little over a year. This was stressful for everyone, especially our cat. We had to keep the two cats separated at all times and we were crowded and it was overall super stressful. In late March 09, we moved back across the ocean-- another transatlantic flight for our kitty-- and have settled into a large, comfortable place where our cat has tons of room, and a gigantic balcony where she can watch birds, catch bugs, get some sun-- she seems very happy.
We had to change her food several times, obviously, but have found a dry food that agrees with her tummy and canned food that she gets twice a day. The wet food is pretty small in quantity, think the size of a Fancy Feast can split in half. (We do this because otherwise we toss more than she eats).
Since we've been here, she's had some poop problems-- her poop sticks to her behind and she drags herself around on the ground to get it off (thank god we have parquet floors!). And since we've been here, she has basically never managed to get her pee INTO her box-- the box is in a small corner in the bathroom, under the sink and next to the shower (basically the only available space in the apartment) and she is constantly peeing outside the box. I can handle this, because I know she isn't doing it on purpose-- half will be in the box, half on the newspaper we keep under her box.
But what I've recently discovered is that she is now peeing on the bathmat on the opposite corner from her box. It has happened at LEAST three times now in the past week or so. This really upsets me. I grew up with cats that were serial sprayers and I just don't want to live like that! I cannot for the life of me figure out what is going on. Nothing has changed in the last few weeks, except my son starting a morning preschool, for 3 hrs / 4 days a week. This hardly affects my cat at all... so could it be bugging her???
Help me, please, I don't want to live in a house that reeks of cat piss!!!!!
A little background:
Kitty has always had a sensitive digestive tract. We finally figured out that when she is carefully brushed on a regular basis and has access 24/7 to cat grass, her vomiting is limited to throwing up the cat grass she ingests. Otherwise, she can vomit her food 3-4 times a week.
We've had a stressful year+-- in Jan 08 we left our home, moved across the ocean, lived with my parents in their home and with their cat for a little over a year. This was stressful for everyone, especially our cat. We had to keep the two cats separated at all times and we were crowded and it was overall super stressful. In late March 09, we moved back across the ocean-- another transatlantic flight for our kitty-- and have settled into a large, comfortable place where our cat has tons of room, and a gigantic balcony where she can watch birds, catch bugs, get some sun-- she seems very happy.
We had to change her food several times, obviously, but have found a dry food that agrees with her tummy and canned food that she gets twice a day. The wet food is pretty small in quantity, think the size of a Fancy Feast can split in half. (We do this because otherwise we toss more than she eats).
Since we've been here, she's had some poop problems-- her poop sticks to her behind and she drags herself around on the ground to get it off (thank god we have parquet floors!). And since we've been here, she has basically never managed to get her pee INTO her box-- the box is in a small corner in the bathroom, under the sink and next to the shower (basically the only available space in the apartment) and she is constantly peeing outside the box. I can handle this, because I know she isn't doing it on purpose-- half will be in the box, half on the newspaper we keep under her box.
But what I've recently discovered is that she is now peeing on the bathmat on the opposite corner from her box. It has happened at LEAST three times now in the past week or so. This really upsets me. I grew up with cats that were serial sprayers and I just don't want to live like that! I cannot for the life of me figure out what is going on. Nothing has changed in the last few weeks, except my son starting a morning preschool, for 3 hrs / 4 days a week. This hardly affects my cat at all... so could it be bugging her???
Help me, please, I don't want to live in a house that reeks of cat piss!!!!!
