Indoor/Outdoor AND Indoor-only... Advice please!

**Freedom** · 06-13-2010, 05:57 PM

Keep all of them indoors, where they are safer.

**minionette** · 06-13-2010, 06:06 PM

Originally Posted by Freedom

Keep all of them indoors, where they are safer.

Wish I could, but one has a constant desire to pee on couches, no matter how clean the litter box is kept or how we tried to re-train his behavior. After having to replace 3 couches, making the outdoors available to him was the only alternative we could find that actually worked.

**krazyaboutkatz** · 06-14-2010, 12:08 AM

Have you every tried Cat Attract Litter? This really helped me when I was having peeing issues. You can buy it online or at Petsmart. Yes, it does cost a bit more but it works.

Hopefully something can be worked out. Good luck.

**mruffruff** · 06-14-2010, 07:50 AM

I truly understand your problem.

I have 2 cats that MUST be indoor-outdoor cats. One will pee on kitchen counters and yowl, the other will self-mutilate and bleed all over. They are allowed to use the doggy door (as are the 2 dogs) during the day. The other 10 are kept in their own room, with a large, totally enclosed pen accesible through a cat flap through their window. In the evenings, I let them all mingle throughout the house with the doggy door locked.

The only suggestion I can think of would be the cat flap that requires a special collar to open the flap. One is the PetSafe Infrared cat flap at $119 and comes with 2 collars. See the DrsFosterSmith.com site.

**ginalovesfelines** · 06-14-2010, 12:04 PM

I would agree, you can find the magnetic cat flaps to put on the ones that can go out and not on the one you want to keep in. Its sounds like one of your only choices to do what you are trying to accomplish. Good luck and let us know how you solve your problem.

**sana** · 06-14-2010, 12:11 PM

You can keep a room its house for a few months until it can go out the cat flap. In that room you can like make it a little homey for it. For example put comfortable clothes in a basket were it can sleep and stuff. Keep balls of yarn for it to play with. And that way it would stay busy all day. You can take him outside for a few minutes so it can take in some fresh air and so that would be good for its health too. But never let it go out alone or you might never see it again because cats don't come back to places which they are still not familiar with, at least I have experienced that.