No she’s pretty able to jump up and down from her first to second level condo with ease. She’s still doing binkies and getting into places she shouldn’t be. So I doubt it’s a mobility issue. And since my room is in the basement, it’s very quiet downstairs, so it’s not noise-related. Her litter box is the biggest they offer and has really high sides and has a grate, so she’s note kicking poop out of her box. It’s more like she’s about 5 inches from her litter box and just decides to poop there. It’s not even where her hay is, so it’s not like she’s grazing. And yeah, I’ve seen her do it before. I don’t even think SHE knows why she does it. It’s just like she’ll be sitting there, do it, and hop away. Over a couple of hours/days it accumulates and I suck it up with an awesome dirt devil vacuum I use for such occasions. She does NOT like the vacuum though — she growls and attacks it! lmao
Maybe that’s why Smokey is being this way — she wants her students home with her! I mean, who knows anymore, I am completely at a loss as to why she’s doing this. She does the same thing at school, too, with her litter box there. Not AS much as at home, but it’s still there. Then again, her hay is not in a holder like at home, so I can understand her grazing and pooping at the same time. I’m not really worried about at school since she’s only there 8 hours 4x a week as opposed to how much she’s doing it at home.
I did go away in August for about 3 weeks, but she was doing that before then. All I take her to the vet for is to trim her nails, and I’ve recently begun doing that since I finally got sharp clippers. And I’ve always watched her while at the vet’s and she hasn’t had anything traumatic to her. She just gets very wide-eyed until we get home, where she kicks her feet at me when she gets back in her cage (tantrum!).
You know, now that I think of it, when I upgraded her cage back around that time to the giant one she has now, it WAS on the other side of the room than she is now, but it’s only a couple feet away from where she currently was. Do you think that could have triggered it? Even so much that it causes her to do it at home when her condo has never been moved, only slightly moved over clean up the hay mess she made (she ALWAYS makes a mess!).
She doesn’t get more than a couple hours of outside time since I work til 4:30pm and have been doing school, so I can’t have her out until after I’m done my work. I often will have her hopping around on the bed with me while I’m doing my online college. So it’s not like she has been getting days outside of her cage. Since we live in a basement, I don’t trust everything around and she LOVES chewing on things she shouldn’t be (wire, paper, books, etc).
And sorry, sorry! I’ll be back at my house on Monday and will be SURE to upload some more photos of her! I’m sure she’ll be disapproving, as always. And thanks for everyone’s advice. Hopefully we get to the bottom of this.