I know this is primarily a parenting forum, but many of us are also fur-parents, so I thought I'd post this here to see if anyone can help. We have a 3yo cat. We adopted her at 8 months old. She is spayed. She is about a month behind on her shots because we moved and just found a new vet (she has her first appointment on Thursday 11/6). ANYWAY. Just this week, she started peeing all over the house. We have never ever had a problem with this. Even when we first brought her home, she was perfectly litter-trained. We moved once, in with my parents, for 8 weeks, and no troubles. We moved again, into our new house, and no troubles. We have been in our new house for 2 months.
Last Tuesday, we moved her litter box down to the basement. She used it fine for a week. Then this Tuesday, I came home and felt a wet spot on the floor. I smelled it and it was clearly urine. And my son is still in diapers and did not have a leak, so it was definitely her. I cleaned it up, using the Bio-Kleen that I use on D's cloth diapers. The next day, more urine, and she had also pooped on the floor. I went down to check her litter box, and the door was only opened a crack, so it was maybe that she couldn't get in there. So I opened up the door, cleaned it out, and though that would be that. Nope. Yesterday I found that she had peed in our boot tray by the front door, and then caught her peeing in the corner of our dining room. No more random poops.
I don't know if this is behavioral - she's pissed off at us for some reason? Or if there is something wrong. She has seemed thin to me the past few days. I'm thinking I should probably call the vet? My husband thinks we should move her litter box back to where it was and see if she stops.
Thoughts...?
If you'd recently had a big change, like adopting another pet or something, I'd think behavioral. But just moving the litter box doesn't sound like enough to provoke that if she's been fine when you've moved to different places. Although maybe that was just the last straw, ha. I hope you get some good answers from the vet!
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