My fiance and I just got two brothers about a month ago (they were 2.5 months, now 3.5) and this week I've noticed they are peeing on various items. It started with me noticing they had peed on a cat bed we had got them from petco. They never slept on it, even though we moved it around to their favorite sleeping places. A few days ago I went to move it again and it was soaked in urine. I thought maybe it had been returned to the store and they could smell another cat so that's why they did it, but I checked a cat sack we got there too and it was wet as well. Then I remembered that while I was doing laundry the day before, it was very damp. I thought at the time my fiance had thrown a wet towel in the hamper or wet gym shirts. I was also washing a blanket we use a lot in the living room that I suspected had been peed on, but couldn't really tell.
Yesterday I got my proof by catching one of them in the act. He jumped into our hamper right in front of me; I picked him up and he was peeing. Then, later in the evening I moved a few dirty clothes from the bed that had only been there for a few hours and someone had peed on those. I also suspect the blanket was peed on again. I know they didn't do this for litter box reasons because when I caught the one in the hamper I had just cleaned the box an hour prior.
I've since removed the hamper from the room and put it in the extra bedroom with the door shut, but how inconvenient. I think the only reason the bed was peed on is because the laundry was on it and it was gym clothes, so extra smelly. But the blanket and petco items stump me. And why just dirty laundry?
Is this a common problem? I've grown up with cats and never experienced this issue. Since I've removed temptation, will they just go on to peeing on clean clothes or other household items? I hate locking them out of the bedroom and having to put away blankets and pillows all the time.
Yesterday I got my proof by catching one of them in the act. He jumped into our hamper right in front of me; I picked him up and he was peeing. Then, later in the evening I moved a few dirty clothes from the bed that had only been there for a few hours and someone had peed on those. I also suspect the blanket was peed on again. I know they didn't do this for litter box reasons because when I caught the one in the hamper I had just cleaned the box an hour prior.
I've since removed the hamper from the room and put it in the extra bedroom with the door shut, but how inconvenient. I think the only reason the bed was peed on is because the laundry was on it and it was gym clothes, so extra smelly. But the blanket and petco items stump me. And why just dirty laundry?
Is this a common problem? I've grown up with cats and never experienced this issue. Since I've removed temptation, will they just go on to peeing on clean clothes or other household items? I hate locking them out of the bedroom and having to put away blankets and pillows all the time.