I have a 3 year old long-haired mixed breed cat (Storm). She's lived here in the same place for the entirety of her life. I have two other cats, a male (Shadow) and female (Autumn) 2 year olds.
The 3 year old, Storm, has been having increasing problems with managing to use the litter box. And frankly, it's straining my marriage and my frazzled nerves.
I'll find pee spots on the rug in front of the bathtub, in the laundry room floor, in front of the litter box, in the kitchen floor, and I'll find feces in one corner of the living room.
More often than not when she does use the litter box, I'll have to chase her around with a baby wipe and wipe off feces stuck in the fur around her rear before she has a chance to sit somewhere. This is something I expect to be doing with a human baby, not a self-competent cat. I don't think she ever has a firm stool, it's always runny, never seems to matter on what food she eats.
For a little background, she hasn't been right in my eyes since we had her spayed. As she was coming out of the anaethesia she had severe seizures. She'd sit in the floor and her eyes would roll back and she'd yowl and fall over backwards. The vet assured me it sometimes happened but never really posed any health risk.
After that, she's never really been "right in the head". She started over-eating to the point she weighed 22lbs..and ate the entire feeder full of food and the other cats started suffering. So now I have to babysit her while she eats. She gets her own small bowl of food, and the others get their bowl and when she's done I have to put everyone's bowl up or she'll be over eating the entire bowlfull. I've finally got her down to 12 lbs through sheer hardwork and determination, but frankly I'm getting sick of it. The other two cats are thin cause they can't seem to get enough calories to fill out and I feel bad, but I just can't leave the food down at all times like I would like to.
I'm a busy person, I don't have time to clean out a litterbox every day like I probably should. It gets cleaned out every 3-4. Could that be the reason why she is going potty everywhere else besides the box? The other two don't have a problem with my schedule.
Also, when she is in the litterbox, she takes up the whole box, literally..with barely any room to move or turn around. However that's the biggest box our local Petsmart had. Are there any larger boxes at all?
Do you all have any suggestions for the over-eating thing?
Please help or she's going to find a new home. She's a 1-cat per household cat in a 3-cat household.
. The litterbox: you might try a rubbermaid type of storage thing with a hole cut in the top for her to enter. Mine have a box which we all love (clevercatbox.com) but it might be too small for her. If you make your own from a large storage bin she might like it. Also, try changing the litter, and getting additional boxes. After traumatic events cats can all of a sudden dislike some placement, the litter, etc. Offering her some varieties might help her.