I’ve lived in a house for the past 12 months with 6-7 cats. For about this time also, I’ve experienced period stomach pains, fluctuations between diarrhea and constipation and generally feeling unwell. Although in the past I have experienced the stool fluctuations (which were somewhat treated with a healthy diet and exercise, though I always experience these symptoms before menstruation) they seem to have all appeared and gotten worse together.
I have always lived with cats, I own one myself. But here, the litter is not cleaned often enough for 7 cats nor is there enough for all of them (one normal sized litter tray for my cat and one jumbo tub which is approximately 1mx30cmx20cm) and the cats are allowed on the kitchen benches where food is prepared and on all of the tables where we eat. I take my cat to the litter tray at night (she sleeps in my room on her bed) and clean her paws before she comes in my room, I don’t want litter in there. They also walk around where dishes are drying/draining. They basically have full roam of the house, apart from mine and my friend’s bedrooms. Even though we always wipe the surfaces before we makes anything, there could still be harmful bacteria on the surfaces. We also had a huge problem a few months ago with the cats spraying around the kitchen, on my laptop, in the toilet & bathroom and around the house in general.
Apart from my cat, none of these cats are vaccinated, flea treated, wormed … not even groomed. And they are all outside cats.

Apart from the owner being a really irresponsible one, do you think that this has directly affected my health?
I am moving out shortly, for other reasons, but I just wanted to ask the question.

Thanks ^w^

I’ve lived in a house for the past 12 months with 6-7 cats. For about this time also, I’ve experienced period stomach pains, fluctuations between diarrhea and constipation and generally feeling unwell. Although in the past I have experienced the stool fluctuations (which were somewhat treated with a healthy diet and exercise, though I always experience these symptoms before menstruation) they seem to have all appeared and gotten worse together.
I have always lived with cats, I own one myself. But here, the litter is not cleaned often enough for 7 cats nor is there enough for all of them (one normal sized litter tray for my cat and one jumbo tub which is approximately 1mx30cmx20cm) and the cats are allowed on the kitchen benches where food is prepared and on all of the tables where we eat. I take my cat to the litter tray at night (she sleeps in my room on her bed) and clean her paws before she comes in my room, I don’t want litter in there. They also walk around where dishes are drying/draining. They basically have full roam of the house, apart from mine and my friend’s bedrooms. Even though we always wipe the surfaces before we makes anything, there could still be harmful bacteria on the surfaces. We also had a huge problem a few months ago with the cats spraying around the kitchen, on my laptop, in the toilet & bathroom and around the house in general.
Apart from my cat, none of these cats are vaccinated, flea treated, wormed … not even groomed. And they are all outside cats.

Apart from the owner being a really irresponsible one, do you think that this has directly affected my health?
I am moving out shortly, for other reasons, but I just wanted to ask the question.

Thanks ^w^

I have just taken in a new cat who is a year and a half old and at first she seemed fine but tonight she has had blood in her stool, this was not just a little bit of blood it was quite a bit, so i changed the litter tray and have seperated her from my other 2 cats until i can get her to the vets tomorrow, i just went in to check on in the kitchen and i found a small pool of blood on the floor about the size of a golf ball from looks like it has come from her bum as she has a bit of blood there still. Does anyone have any ideas on what this could be? as i am really worried.