Roxy has been peeing outside the litter box a lot. I have not yet taken her to the vet and am 98% sure it is behavioral. She has sporadically used our laundry basket to pee the past couple of years (2-3 times/year) and noticed an increase in this 2 years ago when my roommate at the time had a cat. She hadn't done it in a while until we got our kitten a few months ago. Now she has consistently peed in our laundry basket, and also pees on clothes left on the floor, on my book bag, and on other random places. She has never peed on furniture and I don't recall her ever peeing on DH's stuff! Over the weekend I discovered she had peed on my Bible(realized this while we were at church after I kept smelling cat urine!), yesterday on new carpet we just installed in a spare bedroom on Sunday and today on my bag again! I have only caught her in the act once (in the laundry basket) and therefore can usually never get on her case about it.
We have not changed litters, I have not changed any of my scooping or box cleaning habits and we have 2 litter boxes for 2 cats.
I am thinking she is trying to show her dominance to Stitch (which I see in many other ways as well) and as far as the new carpet, was claiming the new room?? (there was just concrete floors before).
SO my questions:
1. what can I use to clean my bag, laundry basket, carpet etc? Preferably something I do not have to buy (I am out of a job at the moment and we are very strapped with money).
2. How do I deter her from doing this? The only places she has gone more than once are the laundry and my bag. Everywhere else is random.
Right now I am very frustrated (especially with the pee on the newly installed carpet) and am tempted to keep her on the porch permanently! (I wouldn't really do that though, just tempted).
Thanks!
We have not changed litters, I have not changed any of my scooping or box cleaning habits and we have 2 litter boxes for 2 cats.
I am thinking she is trying to show her dominance to Stitch (which I see in many other ways as well) and as far as the new carpet, was claiming the new room?? (there was just concrete floors before).
SO my questions:
1. what can I use to clean my bag, laundry basket, carpet etc? Preferably something I do not have to buy (I am out of a job at the moment and we are very strapped with money).
2. How do I deter her from doing this? The only places she has gone more than once are the laundry and my bag. Everywhere else is random.
Right now I am very frustrated (especially with the pee on the newly installed carpet) and am tempted to keep her on the porch permanently! (I wouldn't really do that though, just tempted).
Thanks!