So frustrating: Just don't know what to do with Luna

[Glacier]

You said you added litter boxes, but do they all have the same kind of litter in them? I have three who can be inappropriate pee-ers...all for different reasons! I have 8 cats, 10 boxes, five different kinds of litter!

Pete had major urinary tract problems that eventually required surgery. He associates the litter box with pain. He's been healthy for quite awhile now and as he gets farther away from that time, his habits improve. Pete does not like hard litter. He won't use wood pellets or those plastic things. He loves Yesterday's News and uses it most often. When he was still sick, as it sounds like Luna might be, he would only pee on soft things, like my clothes! I got some old towels, ripped them up and lined a litter box with them. It had to be changed all the time, but Pete would pee there! Pete was medicated for a time with Amitriptyline(spelled wrong!).


Onyx is perfectly healthy, he has behavioral issues for no apparent reason. He likes a very big box. He's a big boy and if he feels confined he won't use the box. He also likes a hard surface. Given his choice he would be on the cupboards or in the bathtub. So I fill two very big boxes(storage tubs actually) with a very fine layer traditional clay litter. He can scratch down to the plastic which works for Onyx.

Ivy is a stress pee-er. After Twicket died, she started peeing on the dogs' beds. She was very close to Twickie. I add a couple droppers of Rescue Remedy to the cats' water every time I fill it up now. I also tucked one litter box away, near where Ivy hides when she's stressed. Seems to have worked. I haven't caught her peeing in awhile. Ivy likes hard litter--she prefers the plastic pellet stuff or the Feline Pine.

I hate the non-clumping clay litter, but my cats love it! So I've been using more and more of it. I'd prefer they all used clumping but they disagree!

Good luck. It's a very frustrating problem.

[Uabassoon]

I understand. Corkscrew doesn't like change or anything new. Last year for the holidays Alexa bought me a futon that I'd been wanting. It didn't take long before Corkscrew peed on it. I bought that expensive feliway and nature's miracle to clean it, and he still peed on it. I bought a second matress for it, and he peed on it too. Now I have the mattress hidden and only bring it out when I have guests over.

[catlady1945]

Are you able to close off the room?

[Pawsitive Thinking]

Would the rug look just as lovely hanging on a wall? (sounds mad but can be effective)

That way, puss can't pee on it but you can still enjoy having it (won't get worn either cos no one will be able to walk on it )

[Sonia59]

I understand you perfectly, Kirsten, and I have no more advice . We love our cats, but it is so irritating!

Like Ivy, Peppito is a stress pee-er. Or when he does not like something, he will pee. For example when another cat or dog comes into his house, he will pee on carpets, usually not immediately but a few hours later. Is he kind of marking his territory?

He also does it with new furnitures. Is it the odor that he doesn't like? I don't know. He did it a few months ago with new chairs! He peed on several of them! I covered them with little pillows, that I still had to wash several times. And now he dose not do it anymore! Sometimes he pees on a box I bring him to play with. And he also peed on a little carpet I put at the entrance door. After several washings, I gave up with this carpet, put it in the garage and replaced it with another carpet. And with this one, no peeing problem at all!