It has been a nightmare this week! I need advice!
Sirda is driving me crazy!
Okay, I am re-typing this because I just read through what I wrote before and realized that it made no sense.
Let me go back a week. Scooter was found to have crystals in his urine, so they gave me prescription food. Well, it is about impossible to feed both of my cats separately, so I just put out the prescription food and took away the old food. Well, apprently this didn't do so well with Sidra. I get home Thursday evening to find about 6 or 7 vomit spots, and one diarrhea spot. So I lock Sidra in the bathroom put a cat box in there for her, and her old food, plus water. I cleaned up the vomit and diarrhea as best as I could with paper towels, I don't have anything to clean the carpet. I then went to the seminar I wanted to go to, then to Walmart to get carpet cleaner. I go home, and clean the diarrhea mess with the cleaner. Then I looked in the bathroom and saw that there was no new diarrhea or vomit. So I let her out, and just put out he old food for them to eat.
Well, yesterday (Friday) I just thougth that maybe it was because I switched the food too fast. So I took a tiny mixture of food, like 1/4 prescription food, and 3/4 old food. It was okay for a day, then this morning I wake up to find 3 piles of diarrhea on the rug. I was upset by this. I lock her back in the bathroom, with her old food, water, and a cat box again. She was very unhappy and meowed and meowed. I then cleaned up the diarrhea with the carpet cleaner. And of course, the carpet cleaner is not perfect, after I clean as best as I can with the foaming stuff, and a damp rag, I can still smell it in the carpet if I put my nose to it, but you can't see that it was there.
I go back into the bathroom, and notice no new diarrhea. So I let her out and watch her, and she runs straight to that area of the carpet, and starts to diarrhea again! I grabbed her in the act and throw her back in the bathroom and then have another spot of diarrhea to clean up.
Ugh, I sm SICK of cleaning up diarrhea. Now she has been locked in the bathroom for half of the day, and she still has diarrhea. But I think she is running empty. And while in the bathroom she uses the cat box very well.
So my question is: will she continue to use that area of the rug to deficate from now on? Am I doomed to that? Will Scooter start using it? I am moving in a month and want some of my security deposit back and they shampoo the carpet whenever a tenent moves out. But if Sidra thinks that the carpet in that area is her new "cat box" what am I supposed to do? Is it si good idea to maybe rent a carpet shampooer from Lowes to clean that area theroughly, or will she just continue to use that area, making that a waste of money? I just am so disgusted to think that there is still poop there, that is impossible to clean up with a wash cloth and a bucket of water, and a jar of foaming carpet cleaner. The poop now is just deeper in the rug, and it is really gross to think about it. I want it gone! What should I do?
Rent a Rug Doctor. It really is your only hope.
And talk to the vet about that prescription food. Obviously it's not helping more than it's hurting.
I never had success with prescription food. It always mad my cats vomit. They never had diarrhea (on the carpet) so I don't have any good advice. Maybe a cleaning mix using baking soda, dish soap and peroxide to deal with the smell.
In terms of the food, why couldn't you feed them in different rooms with the door closed. Sit with the cat whose food is the the "different" room.
I don't know how it will work with stains into the carpet, but when we went away we had someone come in and feed our animals. One day the dog pooped on the carpet and she used woolite to clean it up. Granted it wasn't diarrhea, but it did a great job. We noticed it smelled cleaner in the room, but could only see where she cleaned after looking carefully.. carpet pile was different.
Good luck, I hope you find something that works for you in regards to feeding them.
To get rid of the smell, pick up a box of Odormute. It's cheap and works great. http://www.carealotpets.com/item-detail/?ItemID=1586B