My Cat's still weeing where she shouldn't! help!

cabbage

Hi

I'm having a similar problem. We have two cats, Mike (M)is 8 goes out to do his business, uses the litter tray about twice a year. He likes to stay indoors and sleep most of the time.

Cosmo (M) is a rescue cat aged about 18 months. He was locked in his accommodation with his brother. He was then outed by the authorities when they took over the vacant property and left to roam the streets before being taken in by a concerned resident and then passed to a cat charity to be re homed. He had a foster home and was then moved to a different foster home before we picked him up in March. He has been spayed by the rescue charity late Feb 12.

Cosmo tends to piddle in corners even though the litter tray might be within 20 steps or so. He started doing this in my daughter's room where the other cat likes to sleep. He has peed in her trainers, her school bag etc and then on the floor. Since she now keeps everything off the floor (hurray!) he occasionally pees in the middle of her floor.

He's also peed in the living room quite a few times and the spare bedrooms. He's never peed in our room except for when he got accidentally locked in. The other cat tends not to go in our room and its rare for him to go in the other bedrooms.

Cosmo sprayed when he was on the windowsill in the front room but normally its a puddle. When we first got him, he was caught peeing in the sink in the kitchen.

The other cat tolerates him and occasionally they have a fight. Cosmo wants to make friends but has an annoying habit of going past him and flicking his tail in his face.

We have one litter tray in the kitchen.

do you think the other cat is bullying him and perhaps preventing him from getting past? I've seen him do this every now and then but for most of the time he's asleep upstairs and non threatening

do you think he used any surface in the house when he was locked in and its a habit? (he pees inappropriately about twice a week but the rest of the time goes outside or uses the litter tray)

How do I get him out of the habit. Its hard to cut off bits of the house when the other cat is used to wandering around.

do you think its a battle between the two cats? Mike is starting to sit where Cosmo usually sits in the front room and occasionally comes in the main bedroom now.

Any hints or tips would be appreciated. Apart from the peeing, Cosmo is the most loving cat we've owned and quite a character.

geminilady

I have two female cats mum and daughter and the daughter sometimes pees on the archair one thing I have found that help is to leave out an empty litter tray she loves it maybe she does not like te feel of the litter?

axomoxia

Try different litters. Currently we have found that Sani-cat works for ours. Also have a litter tray _each_.

Fire_Fox

cabbage wrote: »

Hi

I'm having a similar problem. We have two cats, Mike (M)is 8 goes out to do his business, uses the litter tray about twice a year. He likes to stay indoors and sleep most of the time.

Cosmo (M) is a rescue cat aged about 18 months. He was locked in his accommodation with his brother. He was then outed by the authorities when they took over the vacant property and left to roam the streets before being taken in by a concerned resident and then passed to a cat charity to be re homed. He had a foster home and was then moved to a different foster home before we picked him up in March. He has been spayed by the rescue charity late Feb 12.

Cosmo tends to piddle in corners even though the litter tray might be within 20 steps or so. He started doing this in my daughter's room where the other cat likes to sleep. He has peed in her trainers, her school bag etc and then on the floor. Since she now keeps everything off the floor (hurray!) he occasionally pees in the middle of her floor.

He's also peed in the living room quite a few times and the spare bedrooms. He's never peed in our room except for when he got accidentally locked in. The other cat tends not to go in our room and its rare for him to go in the other bedrooms.

Cosmo sprayed when he was on the windowsill in the front room but normally its a puddle. When we first got him, he was caught peeing in the sink in the kitchen.

The other cat tolerates him and occasionally they have a fight. Cosmo wants to make friends but has an annoying habit of going past him and flicking his tail in his face.

We have one litter tray in the kitchen.

do you think the other cat is bullying him and perhaps preventing him from getting past? I've seen him do this every now and then but for most of the time he's asleep upstairs and non threatening

do you think he used any surface in the house when he was locked in and its a habit? (he pees inappropriately about twice a week but the rest of the time goes outside or uses the litter tray)

How do I get him out of the habit. Its hard to cut off bits of the house when the other cat is used to wandering around.

do you think its a battle between the two cats? Mike is starting to sit where Cosmo usually sits in the front room and occasionally comes in the main bedroom now.

Any hints or tips would be appreciated. Apart from the peeing, Cosmo is the most loving cat we've owned and quite a character.

More litter trays in different places, one per cat plus one spare. Kitchen can be quite a busy place. Also clean everywhere with an enzyme based cleaner or it may still smell of urine, no bleach. Could try a Feliway diffuser.