HELP NEEDED PLS!

Our kittie has a tendency to step on his own poop-litter clump or just poop and gets a lot of mess stuck on the bottom of his hind leg(s).  It tends to be his left, but his right leg also gets it sometimes.

We've tried:

- get him a set diet (rotation of wet + 1 type of dry - all high quality: Felidae, Merrick, Wellness, Eagle Pack, etc) so loose stool has been eliminated

- replaced a jumbo size litter box for him to allow plenty of room to roam around

- bought a supply of high quality litter liner, so he can scratch without having to worry about puncturing the liner

- got him 3 selections of litter and have him choose his favorite (Nature's Miracle)

- gave him a sanitary shave (i.e. "Butt Cut" )


The poor boy still get stuffs stuck on him about 2-3x per week.  He feels terrible, as I can hear him meow coming out of the box w/ a look of embarrassment.   So it's tough for us (to clean him) and for him (poor kittie).

What can we do? Help, someone? Help our kittie.  Pls help us!

This  happened many times with Coco as a kitten.....I think that this is just something that happens to most kittens.  As Lynda said, he should grow out of it soon...or at least we hope he does.    :flower:  :paw:

You will soon hear from many wonderful members here that will give you some good advice and tips.  I am sorry that I couldn't help more.  :flower:  :paw:

I'm just piping up to echo was everyone else has written. Mirabelle experienced the very same thing as a kitten but thankfully grew out of it.

We had a similar problem with Muffy not too long ago. In fact, we also cried for help and got a lot of support from all cat lovers on the forum.
Eventually, Muffy learned to keep his tail elevated and scoop a bit longer after he finished his business and all this in his designated litter box. He now knows the correct position and manages to control his stomach a bit more.
Changing the diet was a big help, too. I think you have to have more patience with you kitty; after all, he is just a baby! Butt cut didn't do much for us, either... And a 3 days diarrhea moved all our family in the bathroom. You can imagine how he felt about that entire round-the-clock baths he had to take.
Now, in my opinion, a good quality litter, a balanced diet, scooping regularly after your kitty, keeping him clean and happy will get you a reward soon enough. You might try this: whenever you see your cat preparing to poop, elevate his tail yourself in a way that he?ll be more comfortable and sure on his legs. Be subtle - don't let this move disturb the initial though . Don't forget to praise him when he gets it right and never use an acute voice with your kitty.
Good luck,

Well, I have to add Tosca to the list of kitties who used to, as kittens, have a problem with "cling ons."  When he was a little more grown up, the poops seemed to "fall away" better and "the stickies" is now a rare occurrence.  So there is l-o-t-s of hope that the problem will resolve itself!

But "cling ons" is a sticky problem all right!

So I was going through old posts and came across this one. Bailey has a similar problem...he pees all over his back legs and tail. Does anyone have any experience with this? Is it the same situation where he will just grow out of it?

I'm NOT trying to convince you to the raw diet but you may want to maybe read some raw diet forums like on www.catster.com and some others and maybe consider it for your kitten (it's certainly only up to you).

Cats who are on raw diet produce much smaller amount of poop and many of them poop once in several days. Also, if you feed less organs (10% maybe) and more meat (beef, chicken, turkey, whatever), the stool will be firm and not sticky.

You may also consider good litter catching mat - in this case when he comes out of the litterbox, most of the footprints and litter will be on the mat (easy to clean) and not on the floor. I like roll mats, they are pricey but when they step on such mat, their paws open and litter comes out as well as they are big, so most footprints stay on the mat.

I do agree with posters above that usually kittens overgrow this.

Karen, I've been reading lots on raw diet and I found out that raw chicken are actually safe for our kitties .

First I read that cats digest food in 6-12 hours or something like that and it takes 24 hours for salmonella to develop (don't know whether it's true or not). Second, you buy chicken that were deep frozen and you can deep freeze it yourself - it will kill bacteria. Third, cats digestive system is pretty acidic, so cats do not get sick in the wild, and they do not eat "deep frozen" poultry

I asked on cats forums whether anybody has ever heard of a cat who got salmonella and nope, nobody did . I think right now they are discussing this bacteria stuff on one of raw diet cats forum, I can send you a link to the topic.

Seems like more and more people are putting their cats on a raw diet, and there are many forums on the internet on how to do this "right" etc., www.catster.com is just one of them.

I started to feed my kitties with raw chicken and they loved it. Then I started to add chicken bizzards and hearts and liver and they loved it even more.

Whenever you have time you may want to read at least catster forum - so many people there claim that when they switched their cats to the raw diet so many health problems with cats were resolved - tummy problems, allergies and many others. It is pretty impressing.