Last fall I adopted my first cat. She actually appeared on our doorstep
during a torrential rainstorm. She was very, very hungry and ate a chicken
breast and three cans of tuna in about 24 hours, so I don't know how long
she had been out. After keeping her for a couple of days and trying to
discover if anyone was looking for her, I took her to the nearby cat
shelter
saying that I would take her if they couldn't find her family. No one
could
be found after about a week, so she came home with me. But anyway, that is
neither here nor there. <G> They estimate that she's about 5 yrs old. She
looks as if she's part Maine Coon, longish hair, very pretty, rather
vocal.
She seems to have settled in well. She's not a lap cat and usually tries
to
avoid being picked up, but she likes to come and lie down on the computer
table or sofa next to me and purr loudly. (Everything on her own terms!)
Anyway, in the last three or four months, although she continues to use
her
litterbox to both pee and poop, she occasionally pees on the plastic "cat
mat" doormat thingie right outside her litterbox. It's almost as if she
poops in the box, gets out, realizes that she has to pee, and doesn't want
to bother to get back in the box. When I've taken the mat away, she has
peed
on the floor right outside the box at least once or twice. This happens no
more than once a week, very likely only once every two weeks.
Any ideas? I have no experience with cats at all. Other than this, her
only
flaw is that she is the Hairball Queen, and apparently one of the small
percentage of cats who is indifferent to catnip, so she won't even look at
the scratching thing I got for her. So I have to keep her front claws
clipped to protect the furniture. Luckily she tolerates this very well.
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