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Hi! I'm new here, driven here by Her Highness' Scout's only quirk. She has taken to peeing in HER OWN bed. I don't get it.
She will use her litter box just fine unless she is provided a bed to sleep in. By bed I mean everything from her original basket with pillow and fleece cat bed and blanket to an old towel on the floor. Sometimes she pees in the dog's bed, too, but much less often than her own. She pees in her own whenever she is given the opportunity.
We first discovered it when I started noticing this odd smell in the guest bathroom (her bedroom, which she used to love - she'd ask to be locked in). I cleaned the litter box thoroughly, I put in air freshener. Then one day I leaned near her bed and found the smell!! It was the same smell I had been smelling on her faintly. The bed was dry, but when I picked it up it was SOAKED on the bottom and the pillow and basket below too. She had been sleeping in it. WHY?! I got rid of the whole thing. Bought new. She peed in that regularly. Thought maybe it was the location so I put a litter box there and moved the bed. Still peed in the bed (but continued to use the litter box for poop). I gave her old towels. She pees in those. I got frustrated and started putting down loads and loads of toilet paper for her to sleep on, so at least all I had to do was throw it away.
She will sometimes pee in the dog's bed, but not anywhere near as often as her own bed. She never pees in our bed or on couches or the rug or a pile of clothes. Just her bed.
We've tried all the tricks. We've ruled out physical problems. Right now the only thing that stops her is making her sleep on a hard tile floor with no bed. I obviously can't do that.
Ideas? Help? Anything?! I'm being driven crazy.
Thanks!! I'll go introduce myself somewhere else. Please help my poor Scout.
We first discovered it when I started noticing this odd smell in the guest bathroom (her bedroom, which she used to love - she'd ask to be locked in). I cleaned the litter box thoroughly, I put in air freshener. Then one day I leaned near her bed and found the smell!! It was the same smell I had been smelling on her faintly. The bed was dry, but when I picked it up it was SOAKED on the bottom and the pillow and basket below too. She had been sleeping in it. WHY?! I got rid of the whole thing. Bought new. She peed in that regularly. Thought maybe it was the location so I put a litter box there and moved the bed. Still peed in the bed (but continued to use the litter box for poop). I gave her old towels. She pees in those. I got frustrated and started putting down loads and loads of toilet paper for her to sleep on, so at least all I had to do was throw it away.
She will sometimes pee in the dog's bed, but not anywhere near as often as her own bed. She never pees in our bed or on couches or the rug or a pile of clothes. Just her bed.
We've tried all the tricks. We've ruled out physical problems. Right now the only thing that stops her is making her sleep on a hard tile floor with no bed. I obviously can't do that.
Ideas? Help? Anything?! I'm being driven crazy.
Thanks!! I'll go introduce myself somewhere else. Please help my poor Scout.