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By leviramsey (Fri Sep 07, 2007 at 05:25:38 AM EST) (all tags)

I had to give up on a kitten tonight.

This kitten had been adopted from the "wild" a few months ago, and despite some asocial tendencies, generally adapted well.

Until it started doing a sort of tubgirl impression.

By which I mean that on a daily basis, he would shit in the bathtub.

After about a week or two of that (weeks filled with placing said kitten in the litter box, praising/rewarding him whenever he shat in the box, etc.), the defecating feline escaped out the door.

Then after about three weeks in the wild, last night, who should saunter into the house?

It only took him a few hours to revert to his previous habit.

And so, in a deed of which I am not proud, I put him back outside. Hearing him crying outside really SUCKED, but I can't go on with that shit. Dropping deuces in the tub is a health hazard.

The shit tonight was a really diarrheic one... I decided to use some kitty litter to solidify things... long story short: is there any way, short of bringing in a plumber, to unclog a drain clogged with litter?

Enough of The Feline Turd Report...

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Question by anonimouse (4.00 / 1) #1 Fri Sep 07, 2007 at 05:38:11 AM EST

Are you in a house or a flat?

Being wild, he's not house trained and will take time to adjust.

The solution is a catflap or a regular schedule of putting said kitten out, preferably shortly after feeding.

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Might be a bigger problem by BadDoggie (4.00 / 1) #2 Fri Sep 07, 2007 at 06:07:05 AM EST

I'd take him to the vet. Cats may choose to shit or piss somewhere other than normal either to claim territory or to let you know something's wrong. Had I taken Stelpa, who was peeing at least once a week in a corner by the door no matter what I did to try and prevent this, directly to the vet for a full exam, I would've known about her condition long before it progressed to the point it did. Backing up this suspicion is the fact that diarrhoea in cats is abnormal; if it's occurring regularly there's a problem.

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other things to try by cam (4.00 / 1) #3 Fri Sep 07, 2007 at 08:11:58 AM EST

put a litter box near the problem he may prefer that room. Put a second litterbox near your current with different litter. Sometimes the litter agravates their arsehole, so they prefer other litter types. We actually have pine and scoopable out for ours. They prefer to piss in the pine and shit in the scoopable.

As baddoggie said, and especially if it is always runny, it may mean a problem. Cats tend to piss/shit outside the box in times of medical distress.

It can also mean he has the wrong diet. Put him on dry food and water only and see if that causes a change.

At least the bathtub is easy to clean.

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I've always heard by jayhawk88 (4.00 / 2) #4 Fri Sep 07, 2007 at 08:33:02 AM EST

that you're just wasting time with Drano-type stuff, but given litters consistency I would think that a couple whacks from a drain snake would be enough to take care of it, assuming it can be reached with such a device.

inappropriate defecation by Merekat (4.00 / 1) #5 Fri Sep 07, 2007 at 09:29:08 AM EST

My cat only does that if she is pissed off/unwell, where pissed off isn't the normal 'I will flay you, human' state but has genuine stress.

She is also allergic to milk which causes unpredictable liquid shitting.

I'd say by muchagecko (4.00 / 1) #6 Fri Sep 07, 2007 at 09:34:49 AM EST

get the kitten neutered/spayed, before you do anything. It's up to us to keep the feral cat populations down.

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How crazy are you? by debacle (4.00 / 1) #7 Fri Sep 07, 2007 at 10:27:42 AM EST

Because the best thing to do would probably be to pour something semisolid into the litter, something with a consistency between mayonaisse and egg yolks (and preferably not water soluable), that will be able to permeate the litter.

Then, just plunge the fuck out of it.

It might take more than one go.

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Depends on what kind of litter. by vorheesleatherface (4.00 / 1) #8 Sat Sep 08, 2007 at 12:03:47 PM EST

Most typical inexpensive litter is clay. So, as long as there is any amount of water moving down the drain, or if you can get water to move down the drain, just fill the tub with water and let it drain. The clay should disolve a bit and move along. Or, like said in a comment above, drain snakes are awesome. Depending on what kind of fixure you have for water, before snaking you may have to remove the little lever controlled metal plunger that stops the water or the snake won't go through. I'd avoid putting anything other than water down the drain until the clog is fixed.

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