We took in a couple of cats on Wednesday. Six month old un neutered tom (he's booked in tuesday next week), and a female possibly a bit older and I'm guessing about 7 weeks pregnant. They came from a really dirty stinky house with lots of cats and whilst I was filling in the paperwork the female was weeing on the door mat. The woman said she didn't normally do that - but given how the house smelled I suspect this wasn't entirely true.
Put then in a room together - they get on really well and cuddle up together. Very anxious when they arrived. The female peed in her bed so I put her in a crate with a bed and a litter tray. In the morning the male had also peed and pooey on the floor, and the female weed in her bed and was squeezed in the gap behind it. So I put both of them in crates with two litter trays each so it covered almost all the floor space. I've known it work before that they then sleep in one tray and use the other as a toilet. But I came in from work and they'd both used the tray but were then lying in it.
They're not that nervous now - very friendly with me and with each other when I let them out the crates under supervision. I've never known an apparently healthy cat (their coats are soft, eyes bright, tummies not upset) lay in its own filth before. Anxious about both of them, but particularly about the girl if she's going to have her kits soon.
Any advice / suggestions would be very gratefully received.