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Well, first of all to start off my cat's name is olyve. She's about a year and a half now. Sweetest thing you'll ever meet. I'd say about 6months after we had gotten her i decided to get another kitten, because work had gotten so busy and i didnt want her being lonley. It took awhile but they get along fine! Well it first started when we were cleaning her litter box, she pooped on the floor right where her litter box usually is. Which is understandable she must have had to go! Everything was fine until they both started getting bigger, she'd poop RIGHT outside of her littler box, either in front or right by the side, EVERYDAY, and its not a solid stool neither. she NEVER has had solid stool. It started getting worse after we gotten her spayed. Then we noticed blood. lots of it. Took her to the vet, said it was something to do with getting spayed. She was fine for awhile until now. We had moved and she started again. but MORE and LOTS! i was gone for a day and a half and came home to find roughly 13 poops outside the litter box and 10 in the bathtub! small stools, not hard. i thought these were all from olyve. come to find out that olyve must have tought wilma, or other cat that this was "okay" and she's not doing it also. They're all up to shots and i searched the stool for worms. nothing. i already clean her litter box everyday, but i decided maybe it would be best for a automatic litter box, this helped for about a week. its horrible because since her stools not solid its a MESS. anyways. its not covered, but i took my old litterbox that IS covered, right next to the other one, so we now have 2. Almost everymorning i see and SMELL her feces. we have brand new carpet, and its stained and smelly at that side of the house! my work cut hours and my boyfriend got laidoff, so i don't really have the money to take her to a vet, which is horrible, so i decided to ask here first, but if i have to take her to a vet, thats what i'm going to do. Any of your guys's answers will be GREATLY APPRECIATED. I really cant take this anymore, its even interupting my sleep.

Olyve & Wilma's mommy.

Hi,

I really doubt that the bloody stool has anything to do with your kitty getting spayed. It sounds like she has some kind of chronic intestinal condition, such as inflammatory bowel disease, or even a severe food allergy. I feel that she should go to the vet for diagnosis and treatment.

BTW, the fact that you didn't see any worms in the stool with your naked eye means nothing. Parasites are usually diagnosed during a microscopic fecal exam, where not actual worms, but worm eggs, may be seen. I doubt that this is the problem, however.

You can try adding another litterbox, and keeping all the boxes very, very clean, but with the amount of stool your cat has been passing I believe that there is some kind of medical problem as the cause. Especially because she has never had normal stools.

Take care, and please keep us updated.

Regards,
PHKitkat

No table scraps while you work this out. I have a cat that gets runny poos when she gets human food - american cheese and raw beef both set her off if she gets more than a bite or two. Sometimes the simple things create big problems.

we also have another cat with inflamatory bowel - IBD, which can cause runny poos. In our case it turned out to be a food intolerance to poultry - you really need to work with a vet to figure it out, but my vet came up a game plan for us in two visits over a month's time. Given the mess, it was a cheap solution. Carpet cleaning or replacement costs more.

Best of luck as you work this out.

Purrs,
Elizabeth