FELINE ELIMINATION DISORDER QUESTIONAIRRE
Owner's Name ________________________ Pet _________________ Date ___/___/___
1. Is cat spayed or neutered? _____ If so, at what age was surgery performed? ____
If not, do you plan to use animal for breeding? ____ Has the pet been used for breeding so
far? ___ When? ____ If cat is female, what have been the dates of her heats? _______
2. How old was your pet when you got it?____
3. At what age (or on approximately what date) did abnormal elimination begin? _____
4. Has the pet lived with other owners? ___ Lived in other homes with you?____ If so, when
did you move to this house? ____
5. Where did you obtain the pet? _____________________________________
6. How much time does the pet spend inside (% of its day)? ______
7. How much time do you spend actively interacting with cat each day? ______
8. How many other cats do you have?_____ Where are they kept? _____________________
How many & what other types of pets do you have? ________________________________
When did you acquire all of these pets? _________________________________________
9. Is this cat kept penned, in an individual room or other-wise restricted, or have free reign of
the house (& and what percent of time of each)? ___________________________________
10. Can you be certain that this is the only pet having elimination problems? ____ How so?____
11. Has the household changed since you acquired the pet? (list date of event)
-death of household member -death of another pet
-divorce -marriage
-child born/adopted -adult moved into household
-child/adult moved out of house -pet added to household
-family moved -family schedule changed (job changes)
-other ______________________________
12. List the number of people, their age (if children), the amount of time home each day, and how they interact with cat, that live in the household or are frequently there:_____________________
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13. Where does the cat sleep? __________________ Is it confined there? ____
14. Is the cat declawed?____ Two or four feet?____ At what age was it declawed?_____
Were there any complications during the recovery (specify)? ____________________
15. Because of the elimination problem, are you considering "drastic" measures such as finding the cat another home, changing its living arrangements, or euthanasia?____
16. Does the cat urinate outside the litter box? ____ How often?_________ Does he ever use
the litter box for urination? ____ How often? ____ Does the cat defecate (stool) outside the
litter box? ____ How often? ____ Does he ever use the litter box for defecation? ____
How often? ____ Are the stools normal?____ If not, describe appearance, texture, and
frequency of abnormalities? _________________________________ Any straining to
urinate or defecate (specify)?_________ Any discoloration of urine?___ If so, with what
frequency?______ Date of last urinalysis/result?_____ Date of last fecal/result?____
Does the pet vocalize to urinate? ___ defecate? ____ How much does he drink daily?___
17. How many litter boxes do you have in total? ____
Answer for each: (a diagram of house with litter box locations can be helpful)
LOCATION SIZE DEPTH COVERED LITTER TYPE
a._________________________________________________________________________
b. _________________________________________________________________________
c. _________________________________________________________________________
d. _________________________________________________________________________
e. _________________________________________________________________________
18. Have you changed any of the above, especially litter type, PRIOR TO the elimination behavior
problem began? (be specific, including how soon before the behavior problem started) _____ _____________________________________________________________________________
Have you changed anything SINCE he started doing this behavior, esp changes associated with litter boxes? ________________________________________________________________
19. How frequently do you scoop out each box?_________ How often do you change the litter
entirely? ______ What do you use to clean the litter box? _________ When was the box
first purchased? ______
20. Describe how your pet uses the litter box: (circle all that apply and add more details)
a. Never uses box.
b. No one in the house sees him use it when he does use it
c. Scratches litter before he goes
d. Scratches in box after he eliminates and covers feces/urine
e. Scratches in box after he eliminates but does not cover feces/urine
f. He stands in box but eliminates over the side of box
g. Stands only on edge of box.
h. Other______________________________________________________________
21. Describe how your pet eliminates when he fails to use the litter box
a. Does he eliminate within a few feet of litter box?___
b. He eliminates on these surfaces: carpet tile/linoleum cement cloth ________
c. How close to a wall do you find urine/stool? _____
d. Do you ever find urine stains on wall or other vertical surfaces (TV, cabinets, etc)?____
e. Describe all places where your pet has eliminated (preferably draw a diagram of the
house and put an X on areas where he has urinated and an O where he has defecated)
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f. Does he spray (backs up to object, twitches tail, and voids while standing)?_____
g. Does he squat to void? _____
h. Alternatively to question f & g: I never see him void out of box ____
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