Unhinged poop lunacy

[Pawprintheart]

Please can I just offload to fellow cat owners about my batshit bloody cat. I’m not sure there is a solution apart from deep breathing exercises

There is no stone I have not tried to overturn in my quest to put an end to the cat poop lunacy but nothing works.

13 yo female spay cat - she is healthy, been checked and had tests, yes we have feliway and litter tray options

Cat uses litter tray 90% of the time for wee…

about a year ago she gave up pooping in the tray, opting for a preference for hiding places such as under beds or in drawers

This went on a little while but now all the access to hiding places and opportunities have been closed off - this is what she does has anyone ever heard of a cat doing this?! If so, why?

she brazenly perches on a up high place - the bannister, a shelf or the back of the sofa or a chair and just shits mid air. So yes, you can be walking past the stairs and get hit by falling cat turds

Just here to say that cats generally are monsterous, irrational little overlords, but honestly your cat takes the biscuit. That must be so hard to live with.

Is she at all regular in her habits (times, not location)? mine are fairly predictable, wondered if she could be confined somewhere until she's done her business? Or might she use a litter tray put in a higher location?

Honestly no clue except cats are weird.

Does she go outside? Any signs of dementia or similar? Has she been given pain medication as a precaution in case she has arthritis?

If she's been hiding to do her poops, and is now climbing upwards, I would start looking outside at who is in her garden making her nervous. Something territorial is happening. Foxes, badgers, other cats? Get a wildlife camera that records at night and see what's making her spooked.

My cat randomly shit in the house for 21 years, always used the litter tray to pee. I never got to the bottom of it.
I went through three aquavacs.

Oh my word that is a statement! Good luck to you you with your shitting overlord of a cat.
No advice but rather than being shat on from on high I would give her back one of her hiding places

Really don’t know why she has become a Poop Overlord, don’t feel I can blame foxes, she just likes leaving you fossilised or warm flying turds?

We had to take away the hidden areas because they were too hard to get to on a daily basis, trying to contort yourself into a small 10cm long person to get round the back of the hot water tank..

we did consider getting her her own set of Malm IKEA drawers and doing some kind of TikTok influencer ‘hack’ to turn them into a litter tray surprise pop up show.. which drawer has she shat in today?

She does not go outside of her own choice. She has so many litter tray options. She has the life of Riley. I have spoilt her. She is on the most expensive diet a cat could be on as she has some signs of kidney issues but this still doesn’t fully explain the poop.

We have to keep a family cat turd tracker ‘who has seen the poop today?’ as if you haven’t seen it or have it hit you from the bannister within 24 hours you need to put on your rubber gloves to go find it. Yesterday I found it all down the back of the sofa just as we sat down to eat

I agree with PP that this is most likely a territory issue. She’s stressed and acting on instinct. I would try to put an additional litter tray in a hidden area, like a closet, and see if she would be tempted to use it. Does she have a cat flap?

I'm so sorry. I have no help for you as my old man cat is starting to decline in the poop area. However your story has cheered me up no end. As in his earlier years just to spite us, if he'd seen this he'd have done it.

We have tried this, she will just ignore them and do her free shitting from up high.

The vet did give her gabapentin for a while to help with ‘stress’ but she was completely out of it so we cut this down after a while

She is just mental I think.

Just think, this is how we will remember them 😂❤️

Ah, you have made my day entirely. I shall walk past the banister with such gratitude today that I am not about to be pooped on at any moment.

I was thinking - maybe she just likes the feeling of air on her bum 😂

No advice, sorry, but I think I’d be confining the cat to a small area - we have an open kitchen/diner and sometimes have to shut the cat in there (litter tray and cat flap are in there) for our own sanity. Kitten Jail, we call
it.

Jail led to her becoming a feral and frankly dangerous cat to society! She would try to climb up to get you in the eyes if you went into her jail area. She also wailed.

I agree I think she likes the air on her bum and the freedom to poop fling on you as punishment for asking her not to dribble directly into your mouth when she is making biscuits on your chest at 2am

How long do cats live asking for a friend

Today was the day after 8 years of living in this house that I'm just glad I haven't got a bannister!

All joking aside OP, your cat sounds weird and getting weirder (I supervise a cat's apparently miserable existence myself so I sympathise) - Jackson Galaxy (YouTube/ Facebook) has a lot of advice about the many and peculiar manifestations of territorial behaviour in cats, I also can't help wondering if new/ unfamiliar cat litter might be playing a part.

Finally, 'poo zoomies' are an actual physiological thing (look it up if this is news), they apparently do actually get a rush from a good dump, or as PPs have suggested perhaps your furry darling just like to feel the breeze 🤷🏻‍♀️

Little bastards...

Oh lordy I do hope Tobias never decides to do this - with his intestinal issues his poo is like a thick soup at best! Girlcat has a tendency to stand with her front paws on the lip of the litter tray so her body is at about a 60-70 degree angle from horizonal, wondering if your tray have a broad lip so yours can try this?

The poop zombies! Gutteral growling and racing up and down at 100mph making an unholy racket! But can creep into your sock drawer and take a silent dump? Make it make sense

Yikes OP, that is one crazy cat. Our cat is old and not likely to last much longer so we’ve started to talk about getting kittens when she pops her clogs (out of her earshot of course, so she doesn’t think we’re hastening her demise) and stories like this really make me
worried about what we might be letting ourselves in for!

A friend told me that he took on his dead uncle's cat. The cat was 18. It didn't seem like a long term responsibility but the cat lived until it was 26.

18 would be a good age for a cat. Indoor ones live longer by virtue of there being less roads indoors.

Ahaha oh yes. My old cat loves a good poop zoomie. I’m always grateful when he comes in from the garden and does it as it means one less I have to deal with…

I'm sorry but I can't, love, that's the mystery of cats!!!

We had one that was arthritic and didn’t like using her box (pain association) - she took to dumping around the house too. Pain medication just gave her the squits.

I did find that Zylkene helped a bit though - made her more chilled and less likely to poo in awkward places.

Tell your friend that my last one made it to 22

Zylkene has worked for some aggression issues here so it's worth a go. It could be anxiety driven or it could just be her being a cat. Good luck.

I think you need to insist on a proper pain trial - hiding and pooing in weird places are both massive flashing sirens for pain.