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by charleso 4253 days ago
Your cat might have a bladder or kidney stone which is causing extreme pain when pooping. Please take your cat to the vet and have that checked out.

I ran into the same thing: Cat pooped in exotic, awkward places, but never the litter box. Never looked like she was in pain -- just being stubborn, I figured. Turned out to be a bladder stone brought on by the ingredients in modern cat food (put in place to help other feline health issues, but which causes stones in a small subset of cats). After the stones were cleared up, all litter box issues disappeared.
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post_break 4253 days ago
He's had xrays done not 3 months ago that showed nothing like that. They ruled it out. He pisses in the litter box, just refuses to poop in it.
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Mc_Big_G 4253 days ago
Maybe he doesn't like to do different business in the same place? Try getting another box.
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post_break 4253 days ago
So at what point do you go insane? Should I just turn the whole place into a litter box? I have 3.
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GFischer 4252 days ago
Did you try different kinds of litter?

My cats don't like the uber-expensive clot-forming synthetic crystal litter, and don't like various types of alternatives either - almost none from this list: http://www.petco.com/Shop/ShoppingGuides/petco_ChooseCatLitt... )

..but they do love some simple pebbles, which are, fortunately, dirt-cheap (or pebble-cheap :) ) although a little messier to clean than the above alternatives. I think they'd like sand as well (I live in Uruguay and those pebbles are from Argentina, so I don't know what alternatives are in the U.S.).

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post_break 4252 days ago
"Yeah that's great and all but I've tried that. 3 litter boxes. All cleaned twice a day, and he still shits on the carpet 2 feet away from the box. Lid on, lid off, big sidewalls, different cat litter. I've tried it all. The little shit just likes shitting on carpet I guess. And putting the fear of god into him does nothing."
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crazypyro 4253 days ago
>3 litter boxes
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Mc_Big_G 4252 days ago
yeah, didn't see that when I commented.
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pavel_lishin 4253 days ago
Cats tend to hide their pain: http://healthypets.mercola.com/sites/healthypets/archive/201...
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