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Pooping in the living room!

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our 8 year old inside outside cat has recently begun pooping in our living room. He has free access to outside and a liter box. Vet can't find anything "Wrong" Same spot every day- HELP

• Experienced Advisor Rosie Barclay says:

  February 16th, 2008 at 06:23 PM

  Hi

  Firstly have you changed anything in your life or has a new cat moved in next door? If not it might just be the smell that is attracting your cat back to the same place.

  Wash the area he uses with biological washing powder and spray with an odour eliminator and then cover with Tin Foil (aluminium foil is US) or a plant pot. Place a few extra trays about in quiet draft free places and wait and see. If all this does is move him to another spot than have a look at the type of substrate he now seems to prefer, is it carpet or laminate or paper? Then use this to line the trays and gradually change his preference by adding your preferred litter to the tray a handful at a time every time you clean the tray until eventually he has become conditioned to this substrate again rather than carpet or whatever he is choosing at the moment,

  Good luck

  Rosie Barclay

   

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