We keep Cadet and Trask in a room a night so that they don’t get into too much mischief. It’s a reasonably large room with a cat tree, toys, fresh food and water, a litter box and more. We keep a full size bed in there too, no other place to put it. For three years things have been just fine. The other day we found a hair ball and poop on the bed. A perfectly formed log roll like hair ball and a perfectly formed log roll like stool side by side on the bed.
Ugh!
I cleaned it up, scrubbed the bed spread, used a protein spray to neutralize the odors cleaning the cover even more deeply.
Yesterday, more poop on the bed spread.
Ugh! again.
Barbara thought about it and it occurred to her that the litter box might be the issue. She emptied the litter box and scrubbed it out. We scoop out pee and poop from the litter box at least twice a day. We scrub out the box once a month or if needed.
Today, no poop. We have yet to see if this is the problem and solution.
Here’s the thinking. Cats are very sensitive to smells and keep themselves clean. We might think the litter box is clean but a cat might not. Even though we scoop out the pee and poop several times a day it may not be clean enough.
I should say that we have a little covered trash receptical close to the pan. We line the pan so that every day there’s a new liner in it. Therefore we keep the pan relatively clean by our standards. But to the cat’s standards? We never thought about it before.
So we’ll keep an eye on this.
What do you think about this? Have you have this problem and if so, what did you do?