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Cat Forum / General Topics / February 2004A cat's displeasure ?
We have an eight year old cat who has recently decided to start leaving 'little surprises' on the carpet for us. Now normally this behaviour is associated with my wife and I going on vacation, the cat sees the luggage, knows that means we are going somewhere and then she demonstrates her displeasure with the situation. Recently, for no reason she did it. Some people have mentioned that it could be the litterbox is too dirty for her, we do have two cats and use two litterboxes that are kept clean. My wife thinks that it could be that we both did not show here that much attention this week and that is was a protest. Most books say this type of behaviour is 'your cat is trying to tell you something', yeah but what ? There was no luggage, the litterboxes were clean, her routine was not changed in any way, it was a deliberate act of mis-behaviour, so what is the message ? I love both my cats but nothing makes me more mad than a cat soiling the carpet. Carpet is now soaked in natures miracle hoping that she doesn't revisit the same spot again. Ardna > We have an eight year old cat who has recently decided to start > leaving 'little surprises' on the carpet for us. Now normally this [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] > > Ardna Could be she is wanting to tell you she is sick and needs medical attention.  SignatureStocksRus? She was there recently and received a clean bill of health. I think this is more of a protest of some kind. She gets upset when either we are going away ( which we are not ) or someone coming to stay with us, again this is not happening soon. Ardna > > We have an eight year old cat who has recently decided to start > > leaving 'little surprises' on the carpet for us. Now normally this [quoted text clipped - 21 lines] > Could be she is wanting to tell you she is sick and needs medical > attention. Did they do blood work on her? Certain medical problems aren't evident unless their bloodwork is out of whack. > She was there recently and received a clean bill of health. I think this > is more of a protest of some kind. She gets upset when either we are going [quoted text clipped - 28 lines] > > Could be she is wanting to tell you she is sick and needs medical > > attention. If I were in your shoes, I'd get a second opinion. Judy > She was there recently and received a clean bill of health. I think this > is more of a protest of some kind. She gets upset when either we are going [quoted text clipped - 28 lines] > > Could be she is wanting to tell you she is sick and needs medical > > attention. Get her to the vet, it could be medical problems - anything from somethng as "simple" as a urinary tract infection to kidney or liver disease. If it is a UTI antibiotics should take care if it. She may also have diabetes, which can cause them to pee more - a good indicator of this is if she is drinking more. (which can be treated w/insulin (though no cure)). Don't delay, get her to the vet soon! > We have an eight year old cat who has recently decided to start leaving > 'little surprises' on the carpet for us. Now normally this behaviour is [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] > > Ardna >We have an eight year old cat who has recently decided to start leaving >'little surprises' on the carpet for us. Now normally this behaviour is >associated with my wife and I going on vacation, the cat sees the luggage, >knows that means we are going somewhere and then she demonstrates her >displeasure with the situation. The first thing to do is visit the vet and have the vet rule out an underlying medical problem. After you rule out medical causes you could look at other causes. For example does the cat associate cold winter weather with an automatic trip by you and your wife to Florida? The first step is to rule out an underlying medical problem. -------------------------------------------- "Finally a member of the Jackson family finds another young boy to victimize." -------------------------Jimmy Fallon on SNL referring to Justin Timberlake To send me e-mail exorcise NO Spam from my e-mail address. Strange. If it were territorial, it would be peeing - but taking a dump on the carpet for our cat, is usually about retribution for some "slight". If he's been prevented from doing something he shouldn't (undermining his authority), such as getting on the table - he'll straight away go and take a dump in his litter tray. Maybe yours is just taking it to the next level. You'll have to keep careful track of what's happened before he took the dump. Sorry I can't be much more help - hope you find the answer soon. > We have an eight year old cat who has recently decided to start leaving > 'little surprises' on the carpet for us. Now normally this behaviour is [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] > > Ardna |
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