new kitten + update

tigs78

Have a look at this site, the lady who wrote it is an animal behaviourist...

http://wizz-catz.co.uk/soiling.html

jackiegibbo

southernscouser wrote:

Have you checked your OH's underpants? We're dirty s0ds us men!

jackiegibbo

Jo138 wrote:

After training approx 60 semi-ferals, I think I' know a bit to help.... usually kittens mums do the honours re licking the kits bottoms to ensure they poo. Of course, you as mum should be taking over that job.

HTH

hi thanks for your reply she is pooing in her litter tray its the weeing in the corner of the lounge carpet i want to stop and get rid of the smell

jackiegibbo

Hi everyone, just after some advice pleaseeee, my little kitten daisy who is almost nearly perfect in every other way is still wetting in the same 2 corners of the living room. She uses her litter tray regularly, poohs in it all the time but every few days has to go and wee in these corners!!!. She is nearly 5 months old now and has access to outside as she uses the cat flap regularly but doesnt wander off too far and i dont think she has toiletted out there yet. Im wondering if its anything to do with my other cat whose nearly 10 and my big dog, the kitten gets on great with the dog but likes to pester the cat. She (the kitten) can even be a bit aggressive with her and the two of them role around the floor hissing and then settle down again.
Can anyone suggest a way of stopping her weeing in my lounge, and stop her pestering the old cat. A friend of mine says her old gran had a kitten like this years ago and she rubbed some plant leaves into the carpet and left some leaves on the carpet and the kitten never messed there again (has anyone else heard of this?) and do you know the name of the plant please!!! many thanks

Aril

Our old cat did this after one of the children visiting unbeknown to us had locked her cat flap. In the end we had to replace the carpet with lino although we had tried everything from black pepper to other ideas people had suggested. The problem was that the urine smell had got into the underlay. Sorry- this seems probably a bit radical but in the end it was the only way we could stop it.
Aril

patchwork_cat

She is smelling the old wee and thinks that it is OK to wee there. Is there no way you can arrange to put a litter trays in the corners she is weeing in?

After repeated weeing you would be lucky to be able to remove the wee smell from the corner enough for her little nose.

Your best bet is to go with it and provide something for her to go in.

tigs78

Have you tried sprinkling some dried food in that corner? Cats don't usually like to 'go' where they eat.

BWZN93

My cat occassionally likes to use the bath mat as a toilet, I think she likes the feel of it or something. Ive found that the best thing to do is put litter trays in the places she wants to pee and change the litter every day, my cat is fussy too and likes a clean tray. We have two trays too - I often find that she goes poop in one and then goes direct to the other and pees in that one! Wierd!

Jo x

daphne_descends

We have two kittens and, at first, we kept our bedroom door open at night. OH and I had become used to this over the summer. Three nights in and one of them decided to go to the toilet in there, not nice to wake up to, so we decided to shut the bedroom door when we are not in there/going to sleep (downstairs is all open plan so there is no room that we can shut the kittens in at night). This went fine until recently one of them has starting miaowing at the door at night. He is also very clingy and miaows to sit on my lap after he's eaten, he sucks at whatever jumper I'm wearing all the time, and this is making me feel guilty for shutting them out...