Hello, I’m new here. My home has recently become a cat refugee camp. I have systematically been taking them in, getting them fixed, and taking care of them, so I expect I’ll be using this site as much as possible. I’m originally a dog person with a background in dog grooming and training, but I’ve had a cat since I was 16.
The one I’m concerned about currently is a year old unneutered male named Leroy. He is scheduled to be fixed in 3 weeks (small town, small vet office, they only have so many available appointments for operations :().
Last night, while he was sitting on my boyfriend, I was playing with him, and seemingly “knocked the poop out of him” as my boyfriend put it. We cleaned it up, let him out to use the bathroom and then brought him in for the night (he’s not allowed to be out unsupervised). I was having trouble sleeping because of a really bad headache. He was sleeping with me, and I think he just couldn’t control his bowels and pooped a little bit. I cleaned it up and decided to try sleeping in the living room because I didn’t want to wake up my boyfriend. Leroy was sleeping on the couch, which I didn’t realize as I laid down, and he just let more out…. I cried. lol I laid in a pile of poop and I just cried for a second. It was a pretty bad night.
Anyway, this has happened before, specifically with Leroy. Sometimes he can’t control his bowels and he seems to have diarrhea very often.