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| Faransgirl |
Posted - Dec 13 2009 : 5:56:56 PM
I have recently taken in a female kitten that someone dumped at the stable where I keep my horses. There were four to start with and after the first two were taken home by someone and one was taken by coyotes I decided to bring the last one home. She had been there for a couple of months. She did great at first be recently she has started peeing on the beds while we are sleeping in them. It is awful. First we thought cleaning the litter boxes every couple of days wasn't enough so we got the automatic one. No joy. Most of the time she is really good about the box. She has peed on the beds 5 times now. I don't know what to do. Any suggestions on how to retrain her or what might be causing her to do this. We have 6 cats and I have never had this problem before.
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| shepherdgirl |
Posted - Dec 15 2009 : 11:46:08 AM
Sounds to me like you have a "Territorial Issue," just like Teresa suggests. I have had cats with similar problems. Sorry to say, none of them ever stopped. They ended up outside permanantly. I do still have one cat that is only allowed in the house because she's a good mouser (they come inside when the weather gets cold) and she's getting pretty old. She'll be 15 this Spring.
She HATES sharing her litter box with other cats, and if I don't keep it spic and span, she'll find some place else to do her business, (and in the ODDEST places). She's also a very VINDICTIVE HAG! If she's mad at a particular someone for ANY reason, she will pee or poop on something of theirs. One time she even took a dump UNDER the blankets in my bed. I STILL haven't figured out how she'd done that, since the bed had been made. She knows that she will get booted outside when she does things like that, but sometimes she just can't control her spitefulness. She HAS gotten better, but it still happens on occasion.
How old is the the new cat? I have two young cats that both used to "wet the bed" at night. It was actually worse with the male kitty. (The girl only did it once or twice) I'm pretty sure "Reggie" didn't do it on purpose because he'd actually be laying in the puddle when he woke up in the morning, and he seemed SURPRISED to find himself wet! He is a pretty sound sleeper I guess. He only did it a couple of times, but he was banished from the foot of the bed nonetheless. He still sneaks onto the bed at night, but, now that he's older, the bed hasn't been wet since. Maybe some young cats are just like children--- They need to learn to WAKE UP when they gotta go at night! Hope things work out with your kitty!
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| willowtreecreek |
Posted - Dec 15 2009 : 08:59:23 AM
Get a spray bottle and fill it with water. When you catch her peeing in the wrong spot spray her with water.
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| Annika |
Posted - Dec 14 2009 : 7:48:04 PM
Ok, Ill admit it, I have a cat who lives in one of our bathrooms. His name is Bandit and he is a rescue cat and a real character...a few years ago he lost a leg to some kind of farm machinery and I can just toss him outside, he limps and is pretty slow and I love him, but he pees on everything! I have tried everything that I could think of, but he was really making our lives a misery, so he is a permanent bathroom cat *sigh* I don't know what else to do with him...sometimes cats just don't "Get" being inside cats and just piddle where ever they want...I'm sorry about your little sweetie being a peeing little devil, and I wish I had better advice Beth, good luck with her.
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| Faransgirl |
Posted - Dec 14 2009 : 7:32:16 PM
That is a great idea Cindy, I will try that I hate keeping her locked up. Thanks
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| prariehawk |
Posted - Dec 14 2009 : 4:12:39 PM
Just a suggestion, don't know if it'll work--try putting plastic over the cover on the bed and when she goes to pee on it, it'll splash and she probably won't like it. Hope this helps.
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| Faransgirl |
Posted - Dec 14 2009 : 08:25:36 AM
Yup we only have one dog in the house that isn't spayed. All the cats are fixed male and female. Someone suggested do a re-train with the litter box. So in desperation I locked her in the bathroom with a box, a bed, food and water and left her there. Got no sleep, she was very upset. I will try to be tough and keep her in there Geeez what we do for the animals. LOL
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| Alee |
Posted - Dec 13 2009 : 10:14:48 PM
I hate to say it but she might not be cut out to be a house cat. We had a lovely Russian Blue that was a house cat but after having her litter (she was pregnant when she got dumped) she no longer would pee in the box and my mom had to move her outside in self defense. She was a very loyal cat and always sat on our front steps. She lived to be around 21 years old.
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| 1badmamawolf |
Posted - Dec 13 2009 : 7:52:22 PM
Beth, I'm sorry but if its a territorial problem, between a new comer and ones that are already established, its gonna be tuff to break. Is everyone spayed/neutered , cause that will make a differance also. You might just have to make a no getting on the beds rule. Good luck.
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| Faransgirl |
Posted - Dec 13 2009 : 7:32:58 PM
We know it isn't a bladder issue as she has been to the vet. She usually jumps up on the bed squats and pee's. It is deliberate. We have been discussing it to see if we can pinpoint when it is happening. It seems to happen seconds after she has had a run in with one of the other female cats. Mab sleeps on my sister's bed and she gets that bed after she has had a slapping match with Mab and Sierra sleeps on my bed and the days that she has gotten my bed she just had a run in with Sierra. We have determined that she may be marking territory. Do you think that could be the case and if so any ideas what to do about it. Mab and Sierra have been house cats for years. Sierra has never lived out side and although Mab lived on the Galveston Sea Wall until she was about 8 months old she has been a house cat for 4 years. Mab is the queen cat but Gypsy is giving her a run for her money. We have three more cats coming in for the Christmas Holiday plus lots of people and I don't want this to be a problem then. I want to keep her but won't be able to if we can't sort this problem out. Thanks for your help. Oh we use bio odor remover when we wash the sheets and blankets. My sister even to her feather bed to a professional cleaners to make sure and get the odor out. This is very frustrating cause I really like her she has a great personality. I will try the cat nip in the litter box we have lots of that.
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| Farmtopia |
Posted - Dec 13 2009 : 6:32:17 PM
I agree with Teresa, also....once the animal has peed on the blankets, etc, it's not enough to just wash the blanket, you may not remove the smell...even if it smells great to you, the residual odor is still there and can be picked up by cats and dog's, whose strong sense of smell is much greater than ours. I recommend trying an odor NEUTRALIZER or odor remover. Perhaps a vet can recommend a good one.
Because as long as she can smell urine, she will think it's okay to keep urinating in the same spot. But I'd check her bladder also. Another idea, to try to make the litter box more appealing, is to sprinkle it with cat-nip. Not sure it will work, but just a suggestion.
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| 1badmamawolf |
Posted - Dec 13 2009 : 6:08:59 PM
Iwould check to see if she has bladder or kidney issues, since this is happening on your beds, I would think maybe she is losing control in her sleep? You need to rule out medical issues before you can go farther.
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