Posted: 9/11/2007 5:01:28 AM EDT
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We've had this cat now for about 6 years. Every night I put her out in the garage. She doesn't particularly like staying out there during the night but that's too damn bad because if she stays in, eventually during the night she will paw at the bedroom door and/or start meowing wanting in. Putting her ass in the garage solves this easily. Now I'm not without compassion in putting her out there. Sometimes during the summer or winter it can get hot or cold. The garage is freaking insulated and during the summer I leave a fan on to circulate air and have fresh water laying out. During the winter I'll fire up a small kerosene stove to warm it up a bit then put it out before going to bed. She always has a litter box available and water. Just not food. Why? Because she's a freaking fat ass cat. She weighs like 16 pounds. She can go one night without food and survive. So what's the problem? The cat enjoys pissing on the floor of my garage instead of in her damn litter box. She does seem to understand to take a #2 in the box, but not a #1. Now I will add I put down a little rubber mat in front of the box that is designed to catch all of those flakes of litter and such. She usually pisses on that instead of in the box when in the garage. I suppose that is better than the floor because I can easily hose that off, but still I think this cat has a fucking mental block. When she is inside she manages to use to use the litter box for both. Lately however she has been pissing on stuff in our utility room. Her latest victim was some of my wife's clothes that happened to be laying on the floor. I can't exactly watch that damn cat every minute of the day to try and correct her behavior and move her to the box when she starts pissing. What I have done is if I spot some piss on the floor the next day, I'll drag her back out there the next morning, point her face right next to the piss (not in it) so she gets a good whiff of what it is....she should know after all.... and then spray her butt with the hose for a couple of seconds. It ticks her off yes, but I have noticed if I do that, then that night she manages to not piss on the floor of the garage but goes back to pissing on the rubber mat. I do not have a rubber mat inside. She began pissing on that a couple years back, so I removed it and now she does manage to piss in the box, except every so often when she decides to piss us off and piss on the laundry or the utility room floor. I'm trying to think of anything else I left out.....ummm...we do have 1 other cat and have suspected this might be the reason she does this. Perhaps she didn't want to share a litter box? No we tried that...she still pisses on the garage floor. The other cat is a saint and knows exactly where to go to relieve herself. We never have problems with her. The problem cat, as I said, is a fatass at around 16 lbs. We know she can't quite clean herself very well back there because her ass isn't exactly the cleanest....perhaps this is the problem? We have tried putting her on a diet before but the problem is that she just eats more of the diet food then goes to our other cat's bowl and eats her standard food. Is the problem the other cat in general? Maybe, but we do recall that before we got the other cat and only had the problem/fatass cat, she still did this out in the garage. We'd prefer to not have to get rid of her because she's been around for so long but this royally pisses me off every time I go out to the garage and find a fresh pool of cat urine. I really need suggestions on how to knock some sense into this damn animal. Am I at the point I just need to SSS? |
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i think cats are very vendictive animals.. she probably thinks that she is punishing you by peeing in the floor instead of her box since you are locking her in the garage. I never had a problem with a cat not using their box. Most cats want to use a litter box. Maybe try changing the type of litter you use. |
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I hope you figure it out. We're having a similar problem with one of our cats, and I have known several people who have had cats that started doing this - either in old age or as a result of another cat being introduced to the household. My wife and I have tried practically everything - like you are trying. We suspect the problem with our cat is that she is arthritic, and that she wants to, and tries, to use the litter box, but "misses" it. It is extremely frustrating, but we don't want to kill a pet because it is becoming an inconvenience, but on the other hand, we don't particularly want to have to mop up cat piss (inside our house  ) every day either.So I'm posting in this thread to see what clever advice someone else might have, because I'm curious what kind of solutions might work. Like I said, I hope you figure it out - it must be really frustrating. 
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Take the cat to the vet, it may have a urinary track infection. I read somewhere that peeing on a cold hard surface is a symptom of this. If you had the cat for 6 years and it only recently started doing this, take the cat to the vet. I have one cat that I have had for 6 years as well. Cats get into a routine and if they start acting funny, especially if they hide or don't come around much, there is normally something wrong with them. My cat reciently broke a tooth, that I didn't know happened, and he immediatly started to act weird. We took him to the vet right away and he needed 3 extractions. He started to act himself again, but caught a virus from the damn vets office. He started to hide again but since he was on antibiotics, there was nothing else we could do. Finally after 2 weeks he is back to acting like himself. |
When we were looking at the house, they had covered the carpet with some sort of sticky plastic that we assumed was to protect the carpet when so many people had been walking through it. It wasn't until the Missouri humidity hit and we ripped it all up that we noticed the smell and the cat started peeing. |
That is funny. I don't want to get off topic on dogs, but my yard is full of dog shit and I don't have a dog. I am thinking about calling Mike Vick to take care of the problem. |