Help! Cat pooing and peeing out of tray

[expatinscotland]

We got a cat from a friend who's relative found it nearly 2 weeks ago. He'd been checked over from a vet and found to be okay.

Anyhow, since we've had him, he has had mostly diarrhea and he's been peeing and pooing outside of his tray.

DH caught him in a corner today and rushed him to his tray, whereupon he had diarrhea.

We don't have any money for vets.

He's an indoor cat (it's a flat with an up and downstairs and NO garden, not on ground floor, either).

He hasn't expressed any desire to go outside, either.

He's probably stressed if not been with you for long and don't k ow what sort of environment he was in previously.

I'd stick with a plain dry food, plenty of water, a large litter tray (sometimes a 'single' size tray is too small for adult cat) - all away from very public areas of the house so he can chill out a bit and have some privacy.

You can buy herbal airfreshener things to calm cats - feliway?

thanks.

He sits on the arm of the sofa all the time. It's only once we all go to bed he moves about.

He doesn't want to move a lot, despite he's supposedly a youngish cat.

When he first got here, he went upstairs. He'd sit on the side of the bath. I started to take a shower and didn't move him, he seemed happy there.

But he fell in and he's not been back upstairs since.

The other cat shows no interest in him not he in her.

He is neutered.

He just wants to sit on that sofa arm all day. It's weird.

I feel sorry for the poor thing, but I wish he'd stop crapping outside his tray.

Have you got a big tray with a door? Probably one just for him, not to be shared with the other cat. Try and put some of his wee in there and leave it, so he knows that's where to go.

When you introduced him to the flat did you do it slowly? I might be tempted to start all over again, just giving him access to one or two rooms, without the other cat, with plenty of places to hide, then gradually open up the rest of the flat.

Has he been poorly (can't spell the d word!) ever since you've had him? Is he drinking water? I agree with the dried food. Take things slowly, and if he doesn't get better I'm afraid you will have to take him to the vet. Cat's Protection might be able to help you out with the cost.

Hope he's ok. :)

He has his own tray with a door in a side room next to the living room.

When we got him he'd been Frontlined, but his skin was all scabby, like he'd had a flea allergy.

It's gotten better since he's been here, though, as it's indoors only no fleas here.

He's gotten more active in the last few days.

The food he was on was giving him big time gas and the runs, so we gave him some of Pepsi's, Hills Science Diet Chicken.

He still had gas and runs, so I cooked him some chicken and his poo got solid. Then I went and started to put the Hill's back in it and he went back to runs.

He also can skip a day or two between poos.

He's drinking plenty of water, though.

Maybe try a few different foods. He might be used to eating something in particular, probably meat by the sound of it (not great for smell of indoor cat though).

Actually, he smells a lot better since he's been on all chicken.

I went onto one cat forum and some were feeding cats on 'raw'.

Well, it sort of makes sense, in the wild, cats are carnivores.

dammit, he's done it again! he just peed on the kitchen floor.

:(