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Help. My cat had pooped in my bedroom and I can’t find it.

171 replies

Kitee · 28/10/2017 19:26

Ok my cat has done a horrible smelling shit and I can’t find it.

It’s definitely in the bedroom, I’ve looked everywhere. Except obviously I haven’t.

Where might a cat do a “secret poo?”

I’ve checked on my shelves, under the bed, in the pile of fresh washing, in the cupboard. NOTHING.

I’ve tried following the scent 😷 but it’s nowhere to be seen. Please help me before I have to check in to a hotel or sell up!!!

OP posts:
Piewraith · 29/10/2017 06:39

Once DH smelled cat piss in our house but didn't know where it was. He went around smelling everything and started throwing out things he thought the cat had pissed on like cushions, blanket, etc. He was about to throw out the toaster when he realised the piss was in fact on the pants he was wearing!

So maybe check your clothes?

Allergictoironing · 29/10/2017 08:08

Mine have (so far) not done a poo in an inappropriate place, but Boycat tends to throw up either exactly where I'm going to step in it or somewhere hidden. Moved the sofa a little the other day to find dessicated vomit there, found some on a windowsill in the junk room 3rd bedroom, and some behind the TV on the cables.

lougle · 29/10/2017 08:32

DH has suggested it's on your shoe?

dollieollie · 29/10/2017 09:56

Check the top of the curtains and pull the mattress of the bed in case it’s wedged between the mattress and the headboard... cats are bastards I do love mine though! Not going to lie I loved her a little less when she pooped on the bedsheets at 2 in the morning one night as a kitten

IrritatedUser1960 · 29/10/2017 09:59

My room smelt of poo for weeks, then i found the cat had had diarrhoea all over my shoes in the shoe box. I hadn't seen it at first as it was dark in there.
She is 16 and obviously thought it looked like the litter tray.

oldsilver · 29/10/2017 15:36

Cat sat for a friend once, followed instructions to the letter. Went in tbe kitchen and it STANK. Searched high, low and inbetween - inch by inch. Eventually found it - down the gaps where the rings attached in an old style electric cooker.

Thankfully it was a case of just pulling the undertray out, which was covered in tin foil...hate to think if I had't had found it, they got home and put the rings on to cook tea.

Rheged · 29/10/2017 19:35

Any update OP? I’ve been checking back to this thread on and off all day in the hope of discovering where your cat shat.

SharkSkinThing · 29/10/2017 19:46

I need an update too!

SteelyPip · 30/10/2017 00:34

This thread has been the most exciting thing in my weekend!!

We need to know OP Grin

knockknockknock · 30/10/2017 11:05

@SteelyPip @Kitee ANY NEWS?????????

knockknockknock · 30/10/2017 11:07

@SteelyPip Sorry no idea why I tagged you😂😂

Kitee · 30/10/2017 11:44

Haha sorry folks, no nothing, I can’t find the thing and now the smell has gone so I’ve got no hope!!!

OP posts:
MollyHuaCha · 30/10/2017 11:50

Perhaps the cat went back to clean up when you weren’t looking. Wink

PastaOfMuppets · 30/10/2017 12:26

I shared a house with a cat once that would vomit at least once a day then eat it ... I hope that's not what @MollyHuaCha is putting in everyone's minds right now 😂

MollyHuaCha · 30/10/2017 14:12

Sorry, maybe I was thinking of hamsters.Shock

SilverSpot · 30/10/2017 16:40

Could have been vomit that the cat then ate... my cat did a super nasty vomit a few months ago that stank like shit.

sashadjas · 10/12/2017 08:48

@Kitee I'm sorry I'm so fuckin dense and old late with this but as I piggy-snorted so much that I woke my 3yo DS (from downstairs!) AND set next door's Baskevillian hound barking, I have to beg of you, please, where was the cat shit - if you ever found it...?

claraschu · 10/12/2017 09:00

You have to find it op. Please don't let it just vanish!! This thread will be more tantalising than the never-opened-ancient-safe-in-the-basement one...

JaneShadow · 21/10/2021 09:47

Do you remember whether you ever found it?

SweetToothsAntlers · 15/11/2021 23:55

Lol JaneShadow Grin

Has it been plaguing you all these years or are you hunting one down too?

Jake624 · 26/10/2025 19:29

Did you find the poop?

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