cats and comms

[certainthings]

Does anyone have any tips on how to get a cat to stop peeing on the floor? She uses her litter box for her other business but for some reason she keeps on peeing on the floor and we don't get it. :/

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I've been givin' the reigns to post over at j2_daily which has been on hiatus for a long while now. I'm going to try and keep it active it may not be daily but at least bi-weekly. I hope. So, with that and dailyjsquared there should be a lot of The Boys in our lives. They should do something new so that we'll have shiny new pics to post.

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[rustydog.livejournal.com]

Here's an article about all the issues you might need to consider http://cats.about.com/cs/litterboxproblems/a/urinewoes_2.htm

If she doesn't have a medical problem, the litter box is clean, and she doesn't have issues with changes in her environment, it's a hard thing to solve. You definitely need to get the smell of the urine out of the carpet (or wherever) so she doesn't keep going back there.

In Texas, we had this tribe of feral cats that lived around our house, and the toms would drive the Fuzz crazy. That was one problem. But he also liked to pee in Tom Joad's dirty clothes basket. Never mine! Snerk. But he got used to that and when I moved to my apartment, he kept urinating in the clothes basket. The only way I could solve the problem was to start keeping my dirty clothes in a hanging bag, off the floor.

[certainthings.livejournal.com]

Thank you for this, Rustygirl

[eilan.livejournal.com]

Good, we need more of The Boys... it's been sadly lacking lately!

[certainthings.livejournal.com]

We do.

[lavendergaia]

Have you changed the litter brand lately? If not, you might want to try that. Sometimes cats just get sick of stuff.

I've also heard of cats that like one box for peeing and one for not. Cuz cats are freaks.

[certainthings.livejournal.com]

No, we haven't. My aunt heard that you weren't supposed to change the litter. And she does seem okay for crapping in it just not the other.

[lavendergaia]

I know it helped us when one of our cats was doing something similar. There was just a special kind of litter we bought once off cuz it was on sale and then that's the only thing she would use ever since.

[certainthings.livejournal.com]

Hmm, if she doesn't stop soon maybe we'll try this. :)

[leighm.livejournal.com]

Cats are pretty neurotic that way and if they've marked a spot once it's hard to get them to stop. Not that it's the prettiest decoration but try putting aluminum foil down in that spot. The don't like the noise it makes when they walk on it. It might make her move to another spot though.

[certainthings.livejournal.com]

If it happens again, I shall recommend that to my aunt. Thank you

[sevenandthree.livejournal.com]

she could have a bladder infection.

[certainthings.livejournal.com]

I don't think she does.

[je-suis.livejournal.com]

It's possible that it's some kind of message that "hey, I'm sick" - I had a cat that peed all over the house for months and months and it turned out he had enormous bladder stones, but he had no other way to tell us he was sick. Took him to the vet and they removed the stones and he stopped peeing outside the litter box.

It's also possible that it's emotional. Cats are VERY neurotic. One suggestion I've had is that if there's a particular place she keeps peeing on, put some of her food near that spot. They are not likely to pee on or near their food. And as someone else said, once they mark a spot, if they smell urine on that area, they'll keep peeing there. So if you can get the smell out, they no longer associate it with urinating and marking, etc.

Good luck with it!

[certainthings.livejournal.com]

Hopefully she's not sick. I know I've seen the one cat pee (and she peed near her food and almost on top of her water - so I don't think moving it will help :( ) But we're not sure if it's just the one cat or both.

[lotrabc.livejournal.com]

Congrats on taking over the J2 comm, it's good to see people still being squeeful about it. <3

Hmm, I wish you luck on the cat problem. Ours has a marking issue which we're at a bit of a loss for too, unfortunately. They're so damn particular, lol.

[certainthings.livejournal.com]

I don't know if I'd say I was squeeful but it gives me something to do and I find the subjects quite pretty so yeah.

Thank you! And it's a shame cats can't communicate via spoken words or even writing something down.