13 year old cat pooing in house!

[Mikadooo]

I hope someone has some bright ideas about this!

Our 13year old girl cat has started pooing in the bedrooms - when there are two clean litter trays avaialble downstairs.

She's been strange since her brother died last Christmas and isn't in the best health - very skinny and bony - but seems generally OK.

Last week she pooed in our room three times - once I was actually in there trying on clothes - and she was asleep under the bed - came out yawning and proceeded to poo right in front of me!

Husband is adamant she has to live outdoors - but I've just let her bacck in as its pouring.

Not sure if she could be going a bit senile? Anyone know anything about such things?

My cat has done the same in the past - she too is old, and i have put it down to senility and getting completely confused about where she is! I now shut her in the utility room (where she is fed and where her litter tray is) whilst she is eating and until she poos afterwards, and I make sure that the poos are always cleared out of her tray is I think she finds this a bit off putting (as you would!)

Certainly weeing indoors can be a sign of stress - not so sure about pooing. When we had our extension built my cat came up and weed on the bed - with me in it! I asked the vet and he said she felt safe and secure with me.

He gave me a sythetic hormone spray to spray around the house - it's called Feliway. Costs about £20 but well worth it.

MILs dog got to 16 and started weeing indoors then asking to go outside or would ask to go out, get outside, look bewildered, amble back indoors, then wee on the floor.
Vet said she was going senile. By the time she got outside she had forgotten why she was out there then it was too late.

Bless her - she was a cantankerous little madam too. :)