Doolally Dusky

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I'll be interested to hear from some cat owners out there. We have two cats - Ollie's quite normal but Dusky really is a bit of an oddball. She was a rescue cat and had been at the RSPCA shelter for over six months. Nobody wanted her as she wasn't the friendliest of cats ... tended to claw at humans if they went near her. However, Adam and I, being completely bonkers, are always open to a challenge and so we took her in. Two years later she's now quite happy being picked up and cuddled and loves to play. She'd spent her life indoors with 20 other cats but, once she'd settled with us, she loved being out in the garden with us. However, recently she's developed agoraphobia. She started going to the toilet on the carpet at the bottom of our stairs and, although we carried her outside and tried to persuade her to go in the garden, she just wasn't having it. We decided that, although not ideal, we'd have to bring the litter tray back in and, for the last couple of months, we've had it sitting at the bottom of the stairs. She flatly refuses to go outside but, what's even more weird, is that she sleeps in her litter tray, presumably because it's an enclosed space and, on top of that, she actually eats the litter! We don't think it'll do her too much harm as it's fuller's earth which is a natural product but is there anyone else out there who has a cat that's agoraphobic, sleeps in a litter tray or eats the litter?