My Cat Plays with its Poop! What Should I do?!
With my two older cats, I never had this issue. However, once Mozart arrived, I slowly began seeing little pieces of poop in places where they shouldn’t have been. Cats are supposed to be meticulously clean, so why the heck was this happening?! I turned to the internet and did a basic search. It turns out that this behavior is known as “Poop Hockey.” In fact, many cats tend to do this at least a few times. Why? Well, the answer has to do with one simple thing: the cat is bored. Cats who tire of their toys (especially young cats) will turn to their poop and bat it around just to do something different. As for what you can do to stop this behavior, play with your cat for at least a half hour everyday. Also, make sure that the litter box is cleaned once in the morning, and once at night. If the smell of cat urine (the cat is marking out of a territorial nature and/or boredom) instead of poop hockey is the problem, you can find a soluton HERE.
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