"Deuteros" wrote in message
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I posted about this here several months ago:

I have a 7 year old male cat. He's had no behavior problems since
we've had him but several months ago he started pooping on the floor
in random places. He still poops in his litter box sometimes and he is
still peeing in the box (as far as I can tell). Other than that his
behavior seems normal.

He has two litter boxes because he likes to poop and pee in separate
boxes. I took him to the vet and spent $250 for them to do all sorts
of tests and conclude that he is perfectly healthy. The vet did tell
me to switch him to a high fiber cat food which I did and that seemed
to work for about two weeks and then he was back to pooping on the
floor again (today he crapped all over my couch).

And he doesn't just poop on the floor, he has to poop on whatever we
leave out on the floor, be it a magazine, shirt, book, etc.

I don't know what else to do and if he doesn't stop I'll have no
choice but to put him outside.

I have a Persian who started doing that at the age of 6. I too took him to
the vet to rule out medical problems and then settled on behavioral issues.
First thing I did, though, was switch him to a high quality food. He gets
either Wellness or Natural Balance now. It helped a lot. Then I added not
one, but TWO extra litter pans in different rooms where he was pooping.
Since my pans were covered, I added an uncovered one. So far, he's gone
four weeks without an accident. If he recurs, I'm going to try Feliway
next, since that worked great once before for a cat who had pee/marking
issues.

The thing is to not give up. Your cat is very tuned in to his environment,
and there's something about that which doesn't suit him and scares him off
from using his pan for pooping. It's possible he had a painful or
uncomfortable poop, and he now associates his pan with that.

If worse comes to worse, try confining him to a room or two during the times
he's most apt to go, like after eating. Making him an outside cat should
definitely not be an option, and it won't help the pooping inside when he is
inside anyways.

Don't give up. Something's going on, and you just have to figure out what
it is.