After months of dealing with inappropriate pooping, my sweet cat Miley, has been confined to a cage for the time being. We are going on day #2. How appropriate!
After a little over 24 hours in the cage, she did use the litter box but she also used the throw rug and sleeping pad that I had on the bottom of the cage, to poop on....and then cover up......
I am exhausted from dealing with this issue. She had some good days, and then whammo, another gift for me. I also have been finding poop (dried) in places I would never have looked.
Miley has FIP (tested positive) a couple of years ago, and also has IBD. She is a candidate to surgery to have a section of her intestine removed, but not a good candidate since the FIP test was positive. The other post script to this concept of surgery, is that there is a good chance she will continue with the stool problems. She is taking prendisone in heavy doses and it is keeping the blood from appearing and her stool are a tad less liquid.
I have considered having her PTS. That sounds so cruel, but you have to live with this little girl to know how much confusion takes place in my house when she is pooping all over and hissing at the other cats, and fighting....and then more pooping....stresses me out beyond belief. I will wait until she exhibits signs of being in pain, to have her put down, and it appears that she is not right now. So, my vet suggested confining her. I bought a huge, huge cage, called a cat hotel and that is where she is right now.
Has anyone else here ever tried confining a cat? She seems to not mind it so far. I am afraid that once I let her out, she will never want to go back in to it! I have been feeding her in there, of course.
The fact that she missed the litter box yesterday, upsets me. I thought for sure she was being chased from the litter box by the other cats, but apparently not.
I am so frustrated now. And I was just giving out advice yesterday.
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