Pooping outside of litterbox?

[Catlady711]

I seem to recall hearing at one point - if a cat poops outside the box, it is behavioral; if it pees outside, it is medical.

Not true.

There are several medical issues that can cause pooping outside the box, including a very nasty problem called Megacolon. My Jack has this problem and requires pumpkin in his food, regular cat laxitive, and another laxitive daily called Enulose, as well as occasional enemas. Jack blames his litterbox for the pain when he poops so he tends to find other places when he starts having a bad flare up.

We just admitted a cat to the hospital today that has a mild form of Megacolon and is severely constipated now and had been pooping outside the box prior to being totally constipated. We gave it 4 enemas today alone.

[jazzcat]

Ripley started doing that back in May. He would always wait to go out in the garage on the floor about a foot away from his two litter boxes. After a couple of weeks of that it turned to diarrhea. I spoke to the vet and she suggested a food change to Pro Plan for Sensitive Stomachs and almost immedaitely the diarrhea ended and he went back to going in the boxes. It's been that way for over two months now. For Ripley it was definitely a matter of him telling me his was sick.

[Sevaede]

Thanks for starting this thread!

Our visitor cat has been here for a few weeks now. He has started pooping outside of the litter box over the past couple of days. He only seems to be doing it once per day. The poops are pretty solid with a little bit of... "extra liquid".

It's all been in my dining area (which is being used to just store stuff that I've gathered and have no place to put or no use for).

The first couple of times it was on a trash bag that has a blanket in it. I didn't find the poop for a couple of days (I never smelled anything, it had to have happened some time while we've been out.). I picked it all up and disposed of it. This was 2-3 days ago. Just now, I found a poop inside a box of recipes, letters, cards, etc.

I am just hoping to find a way to curb this behaviour quickly. What I've done so far is crated him, cleaned the litter box TOTALLY, and went back to clay litter. What I plan to do is isolate him in the bathroom (where the litterbox stays), there was one more thing but I forgot what it was.

Any suggestions would be immensely appreciated!