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Advice on a pissing cat
xfreidax:
Does she ever use the litter box? Usually cats are very easy to toilet train. Once they smell their pee in the litter box, they will use it. To stop her from peeing elsewhere, you need to thoroughly get rid of her pee smell from where ever she's pissed before. Once she doesn't smell pee elsewhere, she should use the litter box reliably.
It may also be the litter you are using. Maybe she doesn't like it. Try changing the brand.
Is she neutered btw?
datora:
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This is a pretty unhappy cat. Behavior such as this is almost always a "protest" action, given that she is otherwise healthy.
What's her normal personality like? Friendly? Playful? Sociable? Does she get lots of attention, or does she get ignored a lot?
How long has this been going on? What major changes in her life occurred around the time this began? In fact, has she been doing this all along, or is it something that started suddenly? Or gradually? Did you move in?
Is she left alone in the house for long periods of time? Regularly? Is there a set schedule in her life, or is it chaos?
Did her diet suddenly change? Is she a finicky eater ... that is often caused by low quality, cheap food, and having to eat the same thing all day, day after day for weeks and years. A varied diet provides change and stimulation. Some people put out a bowl of dried food and fill it up once every two or three days. That's animal abuse. Dried food should be kept sealed so it doesn't go stale, and a small portion put out once or twice per day that is about exactly what she will eat.
It's clear she is an inside-exclusively cat. Was she previously allowed to go outside and is now restricted to inside?
Do you keep her litterboxes clean? I care for a cat at my parents house who occasionally used a place other than her litterbox. My parents would clean them once every two days or so; when I'm at the house they get cleaned twice a day. Also, I switched over to clumping litter so that urine gets almost 100% removed from the box instead of leaving a lot behind and festering into ammonia. She only uses her litterboxes now, and sometimes she'll "hold it" and let me know her box needs cleaning before she uses it.
Apart from her boxes getting cleaned thoroughly twice a day, she also gets a lot of direct attention from me. Plenty of petting, brushing, talking with (yes "with" not "to"), and even though she's almost 15, I find ways to get her to play and keep her active.
She grew up with her brother, lived inside a house with him all her life. But he died about a year and a half ago, so she is completely alone now. For a year she walked around the house crying and looking for him. So she is a very needy cat and always wants to be nearby someone. She will wake up crying sometimes and just needs someone to speak with her and touch her, then she settles down.
Is she spayed? If not, she's probably going into heat constantly, which is cruel and unusual torture.
What is her age? What sort of up-bringing did she have?
Cats should never be raised alone. They should always have at least one companion. I always try to have three at a time. They are very social animals; if they are alone with only one or two humans, they literally begin to go crazy, to mentally break down.
Cats require stimulation for their normal cat instincts. If she is not getting this, she is suffering from boredom and depression.
Above all, no matter how frustrating this is, try to never get angry with her, such as shouting, yelling, physical roughness. It will only make the problem worse. I don't mean that she'll pee more, I mean it will become almost impossible to break her of the habit. Right now, if it's a fairly recent development, there's still a good chance to train her.
mgz:
--- Quote from: Tatsujin on August 09, 2011, 08:57:17 AM ---We got a cat and she loves to piss on our couches. If the couches don't satisfy her, she goes and pisses on other belongings of ours (cloth on ground, or the mattress, or whatever that's basically cushion or whatever). I'm pretty fed up with this cat. We have two bathrooms and both are consistently open through-out the whole day ... with the exception of someone using the bathroom. We have her own letter box, two separate ones - one in each bathroom. So earlier this morning, I decided to be aggressive and I put the cat in one of the bathrooms (the bigger bathroom) and locked her inside. The lights are on inside that bathroom. There's no soft or cushion materials inside that she could practically piss on besides the letter box.
I want to see if she's going to piss inside that letter box or somewhere else. We've already checked her for UTI and it came out negative. Any advice?
--- End quote ---
throw your cat outside and pretend you didnt have one, or get it put down, or take it to the pound. Then get an awesome puppy
Soryon:
I eagerly clicked this thread after misreading the title as "Advice for pissing on a cat."
However, after reading the OP I realize I had wasted my time.
Oh, and MGZ, Puppies are awesome, but they too piss until they are trained. They will still grow up into an awesome dog tho.
Mistgun_Zero:
I have never yet owned a cat, so I can't give advice, but well this is the first time I heard a kitty behaving badly (badly, in sense pissing on places other than it's private place's).
Anyway how old is it, a young kitten, or an older one?
If it's a young cat it would be better to teach it properly, and I am sure it would grow up to be a fine cat. But if it's an older one, then......well, it can be a problem as older one's usually don't learn (not just cats, any pet/animal), better get a pro's advice in that case.
Anyway, how about a pic of the cat, I want to see it ~nyann.
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