hi there

we have an 8 month bengal girl she lovely in every way but one thing is starting to get out of hand! she will not use her tray for pooing - she uses the bed ( started to shut our bedroom door) and now has moved over to pooing on the carpet (small rug) and most recently the sofa ( 3 times in a row now)
we keep the litter clean - we have 2 other cats, so its poo free most of the time, aprt from when we are out...

she does her wees in the tray and as i said everything else is perfect she is a very loving young cat

we are getting desperate for advice now

we havent changed the litter and its a way from the food too

any help will be most erm helpful!

love kel and mark
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Hi Kel and Mark,

There may be a lot of reasons for this but if you have 3 cats you probably should in a perfect world have 4 litter trays, one per cat and one spare.

Some cats just don't like pooing and weeing in the same tray.
Despite keeping the litter clean it probably does smell of the other cats ( to a cat).
A quick wee is OK but pooing takes longer and she may have been bullied or some thing happened when she was in there that has upset her.
Some cats don't like closed trays, other's don't like open ones, if possible have a trial of both.
Dot the trays around the house.
I would definitely increase the number of trays in the hope that she will get used to using one again.

You also need to ask yourselves :-
Is she stressed at all at the moment? Does she get on with the other cats?
She is probably hitting puberty, is she neutered?
Is the poo normal? Is she getting caught short and not getting to the litter tray in time?

HTH

hey there

thanks so much for your reply we are going to get another tray we have 2 at the moment after reading through some other posts, it apears No poo has been found other than in the trays for one night!

i dont think shes stressed and adores the other 2 shes 8 months i dont know when puberty hits?

poo is up and down we have cut out wet food though and so far from what i have seen hers poos are doing ok!
will let ya know

many thanks for your help
love kel
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Hi Kel

We have only had our Bengal Lola for 2 weeks now and I would def get more litter trays, I started out with one but quickly learnt that two is def needed. I have one in the living room and the other in the Kitchen as she was getting cut short with just one tray.

Goodluck

its going really great at the moment
she is using the trays well and keeping herself clean
thanks for your help everyone
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