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Cat Toilet Habits
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.my female cat Rocco perches on the side of her litter tray and wont step in it if my male cat Sparky has been in it.. we are obviously a 2 litter tray family.
If Rocco is sick she does it in the bath, if Sparky is sick he does it next to my bed !! Seems he likes me know when he is ill....
Sparky has also taken to playing fetch !
Such strange creatures, but most enjoyable at the same time
From a behavioral standpoint, most experts would agree that your cat avoids the litter box when ill with GI upsets probably because he does not realize that it isn't the litter box that makes him hurt.
Cats with FUS typically display this behavior of urinating outside the litter box, because urinating hurts them, and they think the litter box is the cause of all their pain. Ergo, they will try to go somewhere else. As that obviously does not help the problem, they try somewhere else again.. and so on and so forth.
As for going at other times (when not ill), it could be that since your bath is always clean, it is a perferred bathroom spot for your feline (who are sticklers for cleanliness if nothing else). Cat urine has so much ammonia in it that sometimes even a little in what seems (to us) to be a clean box offends them. (Remember, they're a lot closer to the source and have a much better sense of smell than we do!) Some cats also object to cat box filler that is perfumed.