Desperate situation...need advice!

[Taz_Zoee]

I only have one cat, but I recall reading that many cats do NOT like change. My cat is an exception to that. But maybe because you moved those cats out to the cottage, this is their way of telling you......we don't like this!
I hope the camera will show you who it is and you can get them checked.

[Purr-tender]

I know cats don't like change. I didn't move them to the cottage until the peeing got completely out of control in the house. I wish you all could see their cottage. It is one large room. I painted the walls a cheery yellow and the upper portion a soft sky blue. They have a nice big couch and chair, a large window with a padded shelf to bird watch from, another long shelf to chill on, a big condo, their own stereo, and these 2 great cottages from Drs. Foster and Smith. I put up a white bifold door in the rear with their litter boxes for privacy. Sorry, got off track.
We are definitely hoping the camera will work. I don't want people to think that I don't keep a clean house and that the cats are just rebelling. I am anxious to have our house back and would love to have all my kids back in here with us. It is so hard to look out my back door and see my kids looking out the window of the cottage at the house. They don't understand.

I use an enzyme cleaner (OUT) and follow up with Mr. Clean. I have had my carpets professionally cleaned numerous times using products for cat urine and it didn't help.

[Freedom]

For 14 cats you do not have nearly enough litter boxes! You need 15, or 10 and clean multiple times per day.

Cats do not like having many of them living in close quarters. I am at my lmit here with 8 cats in rooms. Have to keep the cellar door open a lot sothey can go down there. So it may be territorial but if it is, then they are not going to stop. Spreading them out to the cottage was a good start.

Please add some boxes for them!

[Purr-tender]

WOW, 15 litter boxes!! I wonder if it matters how many per space? Like in my laundry room, I have 2, then the guest room I have another. Would I need one in every room? That's not a pleasant thought...although neither is cat pee everywhere . Out in the cottage I have one by the front door and 2 in the rear. They use the big, long, open one by the front door more than the others. There is an open box and a covered one in the rear. That is something else I was experimenting with...whether they preferred covered or open litter boxes.

[catmandu]

I HAVE 7 FOR THE TEN FOUND CATS, BUT 3 OF THEM ARE EXTRA WIDE RUBBERMAID BOXES.
WE ARE SORRY TO HEAR THAT YOU ARE HAVING TROUBLE WITH SPRAYING
AND WE ARE PRAYING THAT YOU CAN FIND A SOLUTION. THERES NOTHING THAT RUINS A HOUSE MORE THAN THAT SMELL THAT NEVER SEEMS TO GO ANYWAY.
GOOD LUCK FROM US ALL.

[Purr-tender]

Thanks, Gary. I bought a couple of those extra long and deep boxes the other day. That's one of the boxes they use the most out in the cottage.

I try so hard to make sure that my house doesn't smell like cats live here. There isn't much that smells worse than cat urine.

Your cats always look so content. That's a sweet pic of the three sharing the chair.

[Taz_Zoee]

Oh, sorry, I didn't realize the issue started before you moved them to their own huge kitty condo. That place sounds great!
Well then, I guess I have no advice for ya, sorry.

[krazyaboutkatz]

I'm so sorry to hear that you're having peeing problems. I have 6 cats and I had some minor peeing issues compared to yours last June. I only had 4 litter boxes at the time and 3 were right next to each other and one was across from them.

I have now added 4 more litter boxes and this has helped a lot. So I have 8 litter boxes for 6 cats. All of them are uncovered except for 2 of them. I have one in my bedroom and one at each end of the hall and one is even in the dining room. One of my cats was peeing very close to my front door so I had to put a new litter box there and I moved it gradually down the hall until it was where I wanted it permanently. You may want to try the same thing. Wherever they pee the most, put a new litter box there for a while and then hopefully you'll be able to move it to a better location later on.

Another great thing to use is cat attract litter. My vet recommended this and it really worked for me. You can buy it online or at Petsmart. I just added it to the top of my current litter and they started using it. Once the peeing problems stopped I then started using this which you can also buy at Petsmart.

I'm also using feliway or nutri-vet plugins and spray. I don't know how much this helps but I figure it can't hurt. I also use Simple Solution enzyme cleaner but luckily I haven't had to use it for peeing problems lately. All of my peeing was due to behavioral problems. Now I hope that I'll never have these issues again. I also hope that you'll find a solution to your problems too. Good luck.