Has anyone with multiple cats actually had 99%+ sucess getting the cats to use the litterbox all the time????
I'm at my wits end here! I mean to the point if I find cat pee outside the box I'm having instant and severe panic attacks, can't get to sleep, racing heart, hives, and having nightmares of cats peeing everywhere!!
It's not like I'm not trying here. I'm so frustrated. When we confined Cami into the spare bedroom by herself, everyone went to using the litterboxes most of the time. In nearly a year I only had maybe 3 accidents, not great, but liveable.
This most recent round started last month and had gotten to finding pee once a week. Most common targets are a particular spot in the bathroom, and a spot on the side of my bed about 2 feet from a litterbox! This has progressed to finding pee twice this Tues. I shampooed all my carpets on Thurs since my spot cleaning didn't seem to completely eliminate the smell if you put your nose right on the spot it's faint.
I did urine samples on the cats and Sabrina had an infection so we did 2 weeks of antibiotics and I still found pee. So I did another round of urine samples and Josh came up with lots of crystals and is now on Methioform for the Ph, and antibiotics. I still have to get samples from Bear, Pooky, and Sabrina yet.
I never see who's doing it so I can't even be sure which cat(s) are the problem!!!
I'm using an enzyme cleaner, Nature's Miracle. I blot up as much of the wet spot as I can then spray the crap out of it with the cleaner, then blot that up. I usually follow by spraying it the next day or two and blotting again. You don't smell it in the room, but if you put your nose on the spot I can smell it faintly
I switched the litter to Dr. Else's Cat Attract
I switched 4 of the litter boxes to HUGE storage tubs instead of hooded ones
I moved 2 litter boxes into the dining room because the cats seem to prefer that, although I don't.
I clean those 2 boxes twice a day since they are the most frequently used
All the boxes get cleaned once a day like clockwork and some of those aren't even used on a daily basis
When I clean the boxes I wipe down the sides with Nature's Miracle and lid if it has one since some of my cats pee up the sides of the boxes. I've even taken to using a battery fan to air out the boxes when I clean them.
I have a total of 6 litterboxes throughout the house on different levels with absolutely no room for more.
I've found the pee in a few repeat places; a spot or two in the bathroom, one next to hubby's side of the bed (2 feet from a litterbox), twice a spot on the side of one of the couches, and most recently a totally new spot dang near on one of my outlets!!!!
I tried the Feliway spray and I swear it encouraged them to pee more if anything.
I tried the Feliway plug in's and aside from that it didn't do anything, the plug parts got so hot I started having panic attacks worring about my house catching on fire so I quit using those.
The dr's where I work don't reccomend using drugs to deal with this because they don't like the possible side effects
I do have some intercat agression starting that I haven't had to deal much with since Cami was removed from the rest of the herd. Nothing serious but I'm sure the dominant ones are fairly annoying to the one's they're picking on.
I never had any litterbox accidents until after I had to have Dusty PTS back in '07.
I have done everything we tell our clients to do at work and I'm still finding pee!!!! I realize that it's possible I still have another cat with an infection that I haven't gotten a sample from yet, and I know that Josh still has a week left to go on his antibiotic.
But I can't take these panic attacks over it!!!
I've gotten to the point I swear I smell cat pee everywhere, even in places there is none! I know at this point that's probably a mental thing, but it's not helping the panic attacks everytime I think I smell it.
I'm trying to hide all this from my, fortunately, non observant hubby. I don't want my landlord finding out my cats are doing this or I could lose my home and I can't afford to the rent in the other places around here, let alone no one will rent to me with cats if that happened.
After going through this with Cami there is simply no responsible people to rehome any of the cats with where they could be only kitties, and since I don't know which cat(s) are the problem, I wouldn't know who to rehome anyway.
I don't want to lose my cats or my home and I can't live like this!!! I feel like I can never have anything nice again for fear the cats will pee on it. At this point I'm afraid to put our warm comforter and heated matress pad on our bed for fear of pee, so I can't crawl into a warm bed out of fear of pee. I can't begin to describe how upset I am over the whole thing.
Has anyone with multiple cats actually had 99%+ sucess getting the cats to use the litterbox all the time????
I'm feeling darn near a nervous breakdown here. HELP
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