We have a 3 year old fixed male. In September we brought home a 15wk old kitten (male also fixed). We did a slow intro and they got along fairly quickly. Little to no litter problems from the kitten. Then 3 weeks ago the kitten underwent surgery for a spontaneous intussusception (intestinal problem). They had to be split up again for 2 weeks while he healed. During this time the kitten stayed in our bedroom and uses the litterbox with 0 issues.
2 days ago we let the kitten out again and he has pooped outside or near the downstairs litterbox 4 times. We put him back in the bedroom today (solo) and he pooped right in the box. We don't have a huge house just a regular townhouse.
We have 1 regular box and 1 litter robot upstairs and 1 regular box downstairs.
The 3yo also stopped letting the kitten play with him like before the surgery. But he does not attack the kitten but hisses more.
The 3yo is not guarding the downstairs box.
Anything we can do?? It really upsets our 3yo to not be in our bedroom too because that's his main "spot".
The cats do not avoid eachother, they will sit together with us on the couch, the kitten wants to play again with the older cat but we can see the older cat is gradually warming up to it again but not the way they were before.
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