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Cat started pooing on the stairs!

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CharlieandLolaCat · 11/09/2020 10:18

Help! My boyfriend has recently pretty much moved in and so my bedroom doors have been shut more than normal. I have two cats who are used to it just being us and my DS and are now not at all coping with someone new being here ....

One cat is totally nonplused but the other is highly anxious and needy at the best of times. Boyfriend says that he thought he heard her this morning outside our door (she squeaks) and then when we got up she had done a massive poo on the stairs on the sort of mini landing.

Now to be fair, it may not be her it could be him (other cat not boyfriend!) but I don't think so. The problem though is this is the second time this has happened in the same place (I have disinfected). And after our holiday I found one in the corner of my DS's room ....

I have feliway all over the house, she is very happy to cuddle up to boyfriend in front of the telly, I am still wfh so here pretty much all the time. But help! I am not a cat psychologist! What else should I be doing? She is currently curled up on the floor in my office looking v pleased with herself. Any guidance welcome!

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CSIblonde · 11/09/2020 15:29

If she's not in, it's a territory thing. Even if she likes your partner he's on what was 'her' territory so she's marking it. I'd leave your bedroom door open as that's probably what led to it,if it's normally been always open. They are super sensitive to tiny changes in routine or their environment in my experience. Shutting her out is a new change & she's reacted.

CSIblonde · 11/09/2020 15:30

Sorry, I meant ill, not in!

BertiesLanding · 11/09/2020 15:32

Cats are highly attuned to changes in habit, and this is her way of expressing her reaction to a) a new person upstairs, and b) your room is off-limits. Our cat shat next to my then-DH's head while he was sleeping because we had noisy guests.

BertiesLanding · 11/09/2020 15:33

your room *being off-limits

CharlieandLolaCat · 11/09/2020 19:10

Thanks both, shall go back to her sleeping on my head then ... she used to sleep happily by my sleep and since boyfriend arrived she only wants to share my pillow ... her neediness is exhausting!

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CharlieandLolaCat · 11/09/2020 19:10

*feet!

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LousyLandscaper · 11/09/2020 19:14

If she keeps doing it in the same spot you can put some food or treats there as cats don't like toileting anywhere near their food. It sounds like she may just move to doing it elsewhere though as it is to do with being unsettled, definitely let her sleep where she was always allowed to sleep though Smile, that should help.

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