Hi! Things seemed to be going well, but then found some tonight behind the couch. Company was arriving soon so I cleaned it up quick and didn't think about any of the suggestions at the time. The stool still looks normal. I then checked the litters (they're using both) and they were really full despite cleaning them out, again, a couple hours prior. I'm not sure what's up with that, but I'm assuming it was because they were too full. I'm going to be even more extreme on keeping them clean and if it happens again I'll add another litter. I only have room for three in the laundry room. If I had to add a fourth, it would have to go in the corner of my bedroom - for real. I'm really hoping it doesn't come down to that. Dktrahan - We do have one room closed, but he's always known it to be that way. That's something I wouldn't have thought of, thanks. It's funny how animals are sometimes. Shmoo - Thanks for sharing your story. I was also thinking maybe mine had a hemorrhoid. Once in a great while this cat will try and bully the other two. He usually goes after the younger, girl kitty. I've never caught him doing it while any of them were in the litter boxes though. Wow you tried a lot! I was hoping to hear one of the other things worked before moving the litter box. Perhaps he's sick of BM Northampton Putty and wants to jump on the gray wagon. :) I'm going to look up ThunderShirt! Daisy - I tried a different litter in the new box hoping to stumble upon something. It took them about a day to start using the box. Pesky - Did you end up seeing a parasite then? I was thinking maybe it was that too, she said everything looked fine under the scope. I'll look up Drontal, thanks! I'm surprised they kept using the same one. I just love it when the keep going over the same spot since it makes it so much fun to scoop. Speaking of, why on earth doesn't someone invent a decent scooper? A large ss scooper with a square holder. I can always find the chunky colored plastic ones with no holder. Um, the job of the scooper is a wee bit germy. I did manage to find one with a holder once but it was ridiculously flimsy and on the small side. When the scoop broke I replaced it with another chunky colored plastic one doesn't fit in the small container. I found some online with holders but they look flimsy. Found one shaped like a cat statue and the scoop fit in the back, but I thought it looked cheesy. In this day and age I seriously just can't believe there isn't an ideal, good litter scoop with a holder available. End rant. Thanks everyone! Praying something changes.

Hmmm from what I can see on the Hills website the i/d looks like a good product but it doesn't look like it has probiotics in it - which is a fancy word for the good, "friendly" bacteria that live in an animal's digestive tract (humans too). Sometimes the antibiotics and/or parasite meds kill everything off - and then the wrong bacteria take up residence and cause problems. In that case it really helps to take supplements that restore the good bacteria. Otherwise, if you just take more antibioltics you just kill everything off again, and you may or may not ever get back to normal. I had some cats from the shelter who left the worst kinds of messes in the litterbox - this stuff I sprinkle on their food helped right away, within a few days. Things are now MUCH better. In fact I'm wondering if one of my guys may have been going outside his box because he didn't like the smell...? Anyway thanks for your efforts & I hope you find the answer (or answers plural).

Very carefully. You can, while she's still friends with you, get some pet shears with rounded tips. They are sharp (you want sharp). In between praise and ear rubs, you can coax her into letting you hold her and carefully (but don't dally) trim a lot of the pantaloon area. I had to do this with a dog. I bet there are people EHO need to get such a trim. I don't know any, but I'll bet they're out there. Cat sleep with you?

I have had cats all of my life and now I have none. I don't want anymore because they might outlive me and I am enjoying the freedom of not having them to take care of. I never kept a box for my cats until we came to live in the burbs. My cats mostly wandered in and out at will. Even in the burbs I used to let my cats out and they used the box mainly in the winter time. You know that old adage about how if something sounds too good to be true, then it probably is not true? Apply that to Febreeze. That stuff is scary! Really? It eliminates odors? Scary, scary, scary. I would never buy it, ever, in any form. One of my cats was doing really poorly with lots of hair loss, losing weight, and just all around bad health. I had been feeding him the Costco brand of wet food. Once I quit that, he turned around quite quickly. I think that stuff was bad, bad, bad. One thing about that litter, though, It seems that if this would be happening to enough cats that it would be a known issue. It seems that a vet might warn people about this. There is so much cat litter sold and so very many cats that it has to have happened before. It can't be an isolated experience. Did your vet directly attribute this blockage to the litter? It certainly seems like it plausible. That stuff is very hard to dissolve with water. I think that type of dirt is used to line livestock ponds with. What a lot of money people spend on kitty litter and kitty food! What an industry it is!