Help my cat

[Beauty17]

It could be that something in the raw plywood reminds your cat of cat urine odor or cat spray. That might be what would encourage your cat to urinate there - as a kind of competition.

[Jack]

good answer. maybe i should keep her out of there until the carpet gets put down. thank you

[Beauty17]

And then, just for good measure, don't they have some products that encourage cats not to urinate in certain places? You could start off using something like that - I have heard of something called Feliway, but have not had occasion to use it, because we have been very fortunate with our cats, and we have not had this problem - except for one cat who liked to urinate in a bean bag chair (we figured it sounded and felt like litter - so we just got rid of the chair and never had the problem again).