Help - cat scooting!

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NorthernSky

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1,005 posts

124 months

Thursday 16th June 2022
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Hello pet PHers,

I'm hoping someone might have had a similar experience of their cat doing this. My feline is scooting across the floor, as if she's uncomfortable and needs to rub her behind.

She's a big cat - near 5kg, so I wonder if I need to adjust her diet, which is currently a small bowl of cat cereal in the morning and half a pouch of meat which she eats in the late afternoon.

Could this be something a de-wormer would sort out? I've given her a couple of these in the past, not certain it made much difference.

Cheers.

paintman

7,765 posts

197 months

Thursday 16th June 2022
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Quick google of 'cat rubbing bottom along floor' gets a lot of responses incl constipation, worms & anal glands.

Does the cat get enough to drink - we had a few bouts of cystitis with our female cat Lily which were - on vet's advice - resolved by putting a couple of spoons of water into her wet food.

Trip to the vet to tie it down would be a good idea.