If there is mold on your cat's feces when you clean the litter box, you should try cleaning the box more frequently. This sometimes happens when the box is not cleaned often enough.
Dogs drop feces everywhere, cats bury theirs in soft earth.
ALL cat feces (or any feces of all species) has an odor, but if a cat's feces has an especially putrid odor, along with possibly being loose, it is possible that the cat has coccidiosis. Which is caused by a protozoan parasite. Kittens have died from lack of treatment for coccidia.
Yes, they can. Cats won't deliberately step in poop -- in fact, they will avoid stepping in their poop at all costs -- but traces of fecal matter (microscopic traces that you can't even see) will still spread around the litter box and get on their paws. And then they jump on the counter and transfer these microscopic levels of feces onto the counter.
Feces.
They leave liquid waste, which is their way of scent marking, but they bury their solid waste to hide their location from other stalking animals. Domestic cats practice the same instinctive activity.
Yes, mold does grow on organic matter. For example, mold will grow on feces, and feces is organic matter.
Cats use urine to mark territory. Their feces doesn't do much.
anywhere it can hide it.
no
No. Their feces can be quite hard, but it is not stone.
To bury their feces. They do this in the wild as well.
well my cats do that and when i go into the back room where the litter boxes are... i step on it i figured out that its cuz my cats go to burry it.. sending other feces flying out of the box
By having laying down some feces, idiot!
No, male cats spray urine to mark territory.
you get your cats poops and mold it into stuff
You can catch toxoplasmosis from mice feces in your home. Toxoplasmosis is a parasitic disease that pets can carry, especially cats.
This mold is feces dependent and thrives on or near natural or organic fertilizers. Rhizopus also thrives in attics or crawl spaces where rodent excrement is found.