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<blockquote data-quote="MuM_of_OCD_kiddo" data-source="post: 454167" data-attributes="member: 12241"><p>They can get senile as they get old. My last oldtimer cat was almost 17 when we decided to have her put to sleep. She'd been an inside/outside cat most of her life, and she'd taken to wandering and not finding her way home, so she needed to stay in for the last 15-18 months of her life. Other than the constant whining about going outside, that worked alright for about a year, then she began to forget to use the litterbox. She'd climb up on my wicker chairs or the couch and sit on the headrest and go pee. She'd go inside the kitchen cupboards looking for her litterbox [we have multiple cats and multiple litterboxes throughout the house] but many years ago we had some disguised in free standing cabinetry when I had a cattery, she appearantly remembered that part. Towards the end it got so bad with the accidents [she'd use anything even remotely rectangular for a litterbox - laundry baskets, shipping boxes, luggage, storage crates], that we had her in a large cage and only let her out for petting and smooching sessions, which made us all miserable as she'd ask non-stop to come out if someone was around, and she simply wasn't safe to let wander in the house any longer due to her degrading potty issues...</p><p></p><p>How old is yours?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MuM_of_OCD_kiddo, post: 454167, member: 12241"] They can get senile as they get old. My last oldtimer cat was almost 17 when we decided to have her put to sleep. She'd been an inside/outside cat most of her life, and she'd taken to wandering and not finding her way home, so she needed to stay in for the last 15-18 months of her life. Other than the constant whining about going outside, that worked alright for about a year, then she began to forget to use the litterbox. She'd climb up on my wicker chairs or the couch and sit on the headrest and go pee. She'd go inside the kitchen cupboards looking for her litterbox [we have multiple cats and multiple litterboxes throughout the house] but many years ago we had some disguised in free standing cabinetry when I had a cattery, she appearantly remembered that part. Towards the end it got so bad with the accidents [she'd use anything even remotely rectangular for a litterbox - laundry baskets, shipping boxes, luggage, storage crates], that we had her in a large cage and only let her out for petting and smooching sessions, which made us all miserable as she'd ask non-stop to come out if someone was around, and she simply wasn't safe to let wander in the house any longer due to her degrading potty issues... How old is yours? [/QUOTE]
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