Random cat chat thread

[Mush]

hey cat people i got a problem with one of ours.

Suzy keeps peeing in my washing basket, and today i found a poo.

She is driving me nuts about it, the litter tray is opposite and she does use it but shes soaked all my washing yet again!

even if the litter tray is moved rooms she keeps peeing on it

how can i stop her?

[Shell195]

Has this only happened since you got Henry? It could be that she feels insecure at the minute. Try a hooded litter tray if you havent already got one. Cats show stress in strange ways like innapropriate toileting. Is she spayed?

[Flutterbye]

Thankyou ladies,

I will try that, also since i posted that last post she's had a small dark solid poop which im taking as a good sign

Thanks again

[Mush]

Originally Posted by Shell195

Has this only happened since you got Henry? It could be that she feels insecure at the minute. Try a hooded litter tray if you havent already got one. Cats show stress in strange ways like innapropriate toileting. Is she spayed?

nah she has done it ever since we got her, but i found solid this morning.

they have a hooded litter tray, we have baby gated the kitchen off and thats their safe zone, dog free zone.

she is spayed yes

[Shell195]

How many other cats do you have? Does she get picked on by the others, does she go out and have you had her since she was a kitten? Sorry for all the questions but it helps to know these things so we can try and help

[feorag]

Middening is an extreme behaviour which is not normally done lightly by any cat, because cats are naturally very clean animals and always bury their faeces, but not usually in a basket full of laundry.

Usually the cat that does this is very stressed, insecure and unhappy.

However, if she has always had a problem using the litter tray, then I suspect that she was taken away from her mother at too young an age and has never learned proper litter tray use.

It would certainly help to have more information, answers to the questions Shell has asked will help, but it sounds like you need to re-train her properly, which means either penning your cat, or confining her to the smallest possible room in your house. She doesn't come out of that pen or that room until she has been totally clean for a minimum of a week. Then you can let her out, but do not give her access to all the house, just to the room (if she's been penned) or another room if she's been confined and she doesn't leave that room until she's been clean again for a minimum of a week. If she has a setback, go back to the previous stage and start again. This isn't something that you are going to cure overnight, especially if it's been going on for some months.

[Mush]

Originally Posted by Shell195

How many other cats do you have? Does she get picked on by the others, does she go out and have you had her since she was a kitten? Sorry for all the questions but it helps to know these things so we can try and help

2 cats, had her since January, shes the boss of the kittys, they get on very well but he gets a whallop from her when he over steps the mark

shes about 9 months old, was a rescue rehome

[catflea]

See Above

[Mush]

Originally Posted by feorag

Middening is an extreme behaviour which is not normally done lightly by any cat, because cats are naturally very clean animals and always bury their faeces, but not usually in a basket full of laundry.

Usually the cat that does this is very stressed, insecure and unhappy.

However, if she has always had a problem using the litter tray, then I suspect that she was taken away from her mother at too young an age and has never learned proper litter tray use.

It would certainly help to have more information, answers to the questions Shell has asked will help, but it sounds like you need to re-train her properly, which means either penning your cat, or confining her to the smallest possible room in your house. She doesn't come out of that pen or that room until she has been totally clean for a minimum of a week. Then you can let her out, but do not give her access to all the house, just to the room (if she's been penned) or another room if she's been confined and she doesn't leave that room until she's been clean again for a minimum of a week. If she has a setback, go back to the previous stage and start again. This isn't something that you are going to cure overnight, especially if it's been going on for some months.

yeah, as shes ALWAYS done it since we got her i dont know how long its been going on to be honest.

I thought it had calmed as she was going out etc and she was settled however it hasnt, even before the dog arrived she was doing it.

I wish i was able to try the advice above however our stupid flat is a ground floor open plan flat, they both also have access to the outside world via the kitty flap too!

[Mush]

if i move the washing basket could this curb the problem?

or will she possibly find something else to pee on?