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My cat is pooping everywhere.
I have a female six year old himalayan lynx. She has recently
startedgoing #2 in every room in my house. I'm glad she's not urinating, but am still highly aggrivated. She has not been spayed or declawed and has never had a litter. Can anyone tell me why this may be happening or what I can do to fix the problem. If you have any suggestions, please let me know. Thanks. |
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My cat is pooping everywhere.
Sounds like a medical problem. She should see a vet.
Gail wrote in message ups.com... I have a female six year old himalayan lynx. She has recently startedgoing #2 in every room in my house. I'm glad she's not urinating, but am still highly aggrivated. She has not been spayed or declawed and has never had a litter. Can anyone tell me why this may be happening or what I can do to fix the problem. If you have any suggestions, please let me know. Thanks. |
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My cat is pooping everywhere.
On 25 May, 00:22, wrote:
I have a female six year old himalayan lynx. She has recently startedgoing #2 in every room in my house. I'm glad she's not urinating, but am still highly aggrivated. She has not been spayed or declawed and has never had a litter. Can anyone tell me why this may be happening or what I can do to fix the problem. If you have any suggestions, please let me know. Thanks. My advice would be the same. It sounds like there is a problem that is causing her to poop in other places other than her litter. If she used to be litter trained & has suddenly started doing this, then it might be hurting her, & she could be associating the pain with the place, rather than the reason... Whilst @ the vet surgery, I would also recommend that you ask about spaying her too. It will make her a generally more cleaner & homely cat. It doesn't cost that much & she won't end up with unwanted litters kittens that are difficult to home either.... One other thing. I live in the UK, & we don't have such a thing as declawing cats over here. I have often heard that people are offered a double, buy one get the other done free offers in the USA, If you are offered an option of pay for the spay & the declawing is free, PLEASE turn it down. De clawing is a terrible thing. They amputate the cats digits at the first joint. Can you imagine what it must be like to wake up and find that the end of your fingers are gone? I would prefer it if they offered what they are doing in real terms. If they offered you spay your cat & get their digits amputated for free. At least people would realise what they are being offered..... I very much hope that your cat is ok, & would be ever so grateful if you would come back to us and let us know what the problem was, if you have the time to of course? Many thanks, & Good Luck, S;o) |
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My cat is pooping everywhere.
On May 24, 6:22 pm, wrote:
I have a female six year old himalayan lynx. She has recently startedgoing #2 in every room in my house. I'm glad she's not urinating, but am still highly aggrivated. She has not been spayed or declawed and has never had a litter. Can anyone tell me why this may be happening or what I can do to fix the problem. If you have any suggestions, please let me know. Thanks. Assuming there isn't a medical problem there are a couple of reason a cat will defecate outside the box that come to mind immediately: The first being obvious, that the box isn't clean enough to suit her. Some cats are very picky that way. The other one, that we experienced with a cat, is that in some way she's being disturbed while using the box. If other cats are bothering her, she may not feel safe using the box. This may be true if she's pooping in sheltered places, like in the bathtub, or under a table, or behind furniture. Sherry |
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My cat is pooping everywhere.
On May 25, 11:24 am, sheelagh wrote:
snip One other thing. I live in the UK, & we don't have such a thing as declawing cats over here. I have often heard that people are offered a double, buy one get the other done free offers in the USA, If you are offered an option of pay for the spay & the declawing is free, PLEASE turn it down. De clawing is a terrible thing. They amputate the cats digits at the first joint. Can you imagine what it must be like to wake up and find that the end of your fingers are gone? I would prefer it if they offered what they are doing in real terms. If they offered you spay your cat & get their digits amputated for free. At least people would realise what they are being offered..... Yes, declawing is terrible. No, vets in the US are not routinely offering it as a free extra. People are not being offered this "deal." I have never heard of this. Honestly. Declawing is generally strongly discouraged. Some vets are more willing to do it than others, and probably most will do it under SOME circumstances, they DON'T actively encourage it. And the idea of a vet doing the surgery for free--the mind boggles. What I can imagine happening, is someone bringing in their unspayed female to be declawed, and the vet reluctantly agreeing, but ONLY on condition that the owner agrees to their spaying the animal at the same time. Someone else posted something along these lines recently, about a letter to the editor in some UK paper, claiming that in the US the law requires all cats to be declawed to protect the songbirds. Where's it coming from? Anyone have a clue about that? Lis |
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My cat is pooping everywhere.
On May 25, 10:24 am, sheelagh wrote:
One other thing. I live in the UK, & we don't have such a thing as declawing cats over here. I have often heard that people are offered a double, buy one get the other done free offers in the USA, If you are offered an option of pay for the spay & the declawing is free, PLEASE turn it down. De clawing is a terrible thing. They amputate the cats digits at the first joint. Can you imagine what it must be like to wake up and find that the end of your fingers are gone? I would prefer it if they offered what they are doing in real terms. If they offered you spay your cat & get their digits amputated for free. At least people would realise what they are being offered..... I very much hope that your cat is ok, & would be ever so grateful if you would come back to us and let us know what the problem was, if you have the time to of course? Many thanks, & Good Luck, S;o) Where specifically did you hear this? I'd seriously doubt the validity of that statement. Vets don't do declaws for free, period. Vets in particular know it's an unnecessary surgery--but it's a source of revenue for them. Take away the revenue, and they're not going to do it. I *have* heard of vets who offer a "package deal"--vaccinations, spay/ declaw priced as a package. But even that, I only saw reference to on newsgroups. I know a lot of vets, and none of them ''offer" declaw. You have to ask for it, and all the vets in this county refuse to perform four-paw declaws. I just felt the need to respond to this, mostly because I get the impression that some folks outside the US have this impression that all the cats here are declawed, when in fact, it's pretty rare in this particular part of the country. Even nationwide, I'd guess there are *far* more owned cats fully clawed than not. Sherry |
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