Rescue cat pooing on sofa

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Have just adopted two 10 month old brothers from rescue centre.They were confined to one room for the first week and have had the run of the house since Thursday. Initially they both were using their separate litter trays without any problems. Now the shyer of the two has pooed on the sofa two days in a row while we're in bed - I know it's him as caught him in the act first thing. His litter tray was clean at the time. Not sure what I can do to stop this from happening again. Does anybody have some advice?

How many trays do you have? Is it one each? Some people find that one tray per cat and one extra helps. There are some cats who don't like to poo and pee in the same tray. Also if he is a shyer putting an extra tray somewhere quiet for him might help.

Is is annoying when they comminicate by shitting and pissing in the house. Coz then you have to figure out what the hell is wrong with them. Do you have the plug ins dotted about, mine finds that calming when she’s stressed?

Is the poo normal (not runny/hard as rocks)

Feliway, softer cat litter, more litter trays and catnip spray on the areas you don’t want soiled

Thanks for your responses. They have a litter tray each - one had been peed in but the other was pristine. Poo is a bit runny - probably my fault as to win him over he'd had two lots of wet food instead of just one. I'd sprayed the sofa yesterday with some cat nip stuff but will try a different brand. Thanks again.

My 2 rescue brothers did this. I am not sure if it was one of them or both. The favoured places were on one son's bed, and in the corners of various rooms. I have to confess, it went on a few months (not every day) and drove me to distraction. Not a great start to our relationship. I sprayed with a special deterrent, available in all good pet shops, and that seemed to work eventually. That, or the fact that they had access to the garden and gradually became used to toileting there.

Another thing to consider is the location of your litter boxes. I was a bit naive and had them too close to the feeding area. They need to be as far from the food as possible.

Try a 3rd tray. Sometimes they prefer to keep one tray for poo and another for wee.

I had to change litter a few times. Kittens kept peeing on the beds(even while I was asleep in it) so we kept them out of the rooms for a long time. Also had to have the litter box in different places they didn’t like going downstairs to the ones in the utility room so they now have one next to our toilet that is the favourite