Kitten wee'ing on bed

rhino_horn

Hope I can get some good advice here

We have got an 11 week old kitten. She's good as gold and very good at using her litter tray. However, twice now she has had a wee on my daughter's bed!

Both times it has been first thing in the morning, she is kept in the kitchen overnight and I think she gets over-excited when we come downstairs and let her out. It's almost as if she's been asleep all night and forgets to do a wee when she wakes up.

I don't want this to become habit forming... we've had her a few weeks now and this has only happened twice.

Any ideas? Thanks.

teddysmum

She's only a baby and, like human babies, young animals have accidents.


Perhaps, keeping her out of your daughter's room for a while would help ?

rhino_horn

Thank you

I'll give that a go and see what happens

SensibleSarah

I'd also have another litter tray upstairs in the house so that she always has one nearby at this age because a soft duvet can easily be mistaken for a cat loo when they are so young. You can phase out the extra tray when she's a couple of months older.

PettyDanvers

Also, make sure the litter tray is always clean. Some cats will only go once in a litter tray.

Peter333

Yep keep her out of the bedrooms! For now anyway! Until she gets used to peeing in the litter.

Hope you have a wonderful and happy life with your new kitten.:D

She'll be fine within a few weeks, honest. But just confine her to the living areas for now, not the bedrooms.

Peter333

PettyDanvers wrote: »

Also, make sure the litter tray is always clean. Some cats will only go once in a litter tray.

This also. ^^^

Cats hate dirty litter.

Well would YOU go on a toilet that was covered in wee and poo? Even if it was your own?! :rotfl:

rhino_horn

So I discovered last night a wee AND a poo behind my daughter's toy kitchen in our spare room.

So she is now banned from all bedrooms!!

Noted about the upstairs litter tray, we will definitely do that.

And we do ensure the litter tray is always clean. Wees and poos scooped immediately after the event.

Thanks for the advice, hopefully she'll settle down as she gets a bit bigger. She's a lovely little thing, full of character and follows me around the house

GwylimT

What are you cleaning her accidents with?

gettingready

You said she is 11 weeks and that you had her for few weeks now - how old was she when you got her?

Was she taken away from mum too early and did not learn properly yet?

If you live in a house, for a little kitty this is a massive space so I would have quite a few litter trays around and slowly reduce the number of them as she grows older/learns

rhino_horn

We got her at 7 weeks. It was early, but long story short was that one of the other kittens in the litter died at 6.5 weeks and the owners were keen to get the rest of the litter re-homed ASAP. Plus, the poor little kittens had fleas, fortunately not worms.

She was litter trained, we slowly introduced her to our house one room at a time over the period of a week. I showed her the litter tray straight away and within a few hours she did a wee in it.

My daughter's duvet and sheets went immediately into the washing machine. My husband cleared the carpet wees and poo up with a combination of kitchen cleaner, febreze and soap and water!

I have invested in another litter tray for upstairs so hopefully that will solve the problem in the short term.